By Foster Kamer 4/20/12 2:57pm

QUESTIONS THAT ARE NOT RHETORICAL

joe muto

Has The Fox Mole Really Been Blackballed from Media Jobs?

Just a few days after Gawker introduced their recent and short-lived foray into corporate espionage-cum-pranksterism in the form of The Fox News Mole, one Joe Muto found himself on CNN, speaking with Howard Kurtz on Reliable Sources about the week he’d just had. In that interview, he explained that he was “completely blackballed within the cable news industry after working at FOX News,” which is to say nothing of how his job prospects might be now (“it’s pretty safe to say my career in cable news is over”). Is it, though? Read More

By Steve Huff 4/05/12 1:05am

TV

Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann)

Schadenfreude Alert For Keith Olbermann: Will Low Viewer Numbers Kill Current TV?

Former Vice President Al Gore’s pet TV project, Current TV, is in the news for all the wrong reasons these days. Current, which Mr. Gore and business partner Joel Hyatt seek to turn into a rival to the likes of MSNBC, just fired firebrand Keith Olbermann for, well, being Keith Olbermann, and Mr. Olbermann will likely sue them for the pleasure. Now Reuters reports via “three sources with knowledge of the situation” that Current may not meet Time Warner Cable’s “minimum threshold” for average number of viewers per quarter: Read More

By Kat Stoeffel and Hunter Walker 3/30/12 5:37pm

Changes

NBC Sports Personality Press Conference

Keith Olbermann Will Sue Current TV for Replacing Him with Eliot Spitzer

Al Gore’s upstart progressive cable news network Current TV has fired marquee anchor Keith Olbermann, The New York Times reports.  Starting Friday, his 8 p.m. Countdown slot will be filled by former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, with a new show called Viewpoint.

According to the Times, Current management “unanimously” agreed that Mr. Olbermann had failed to honor the terms of his five-year, $50 million contract, giving them the right to give him the boot. After declining to speak to the Times, Mr. Olbermann slammed network executives Mr. Gore and Joel Hyatt on Twitter, saying they had fired him unethically and he would seek legal recourse. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/08/11 1:51pm

television

David Bohrman (Getty Images)

Current TV Appoints David Bohrman As President

David Bohrman, former senior vice president of programming and D.C. bureau chief for CNN, has been appointed President of Current TV, the news network centered around Keith Olbermann’s revivified Countdown. “Those of us inside the media business have a responsibility to anticipate what viewers want and need, and we must constantly reinvent the medium,” said Read More