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e late radio raconteur Jean Shepherd was an influential voice in the night for a generation of East Coasters — among them Jerry Seinfeld and Keith Olbermann. Seinfeld and Olbermann are headed to the Paley Center for Media in Gotham tonight to host a tribute to the master storyteller, who had a 21-year run in latenight on New York’s WOR-AM from 1956-77, among other radio gigs during his varied career. Shepherd, who died in 1999, today is best known as the author of the stories that inspired filmmaker Bob Clark’s 1983 classic “A Christmas Story” (he also narrates the pic). But his prime milieu was radio, the perfect platform for his razor-sharp observational monologues. “Shep,” as he was known to fans, could spin a 45-minute yarn out of his most recent cab ride, and in so doing comment with humor and insight into on the state of race and gender relations, politics, celebrity culture and other aspects of the human condition. He loved to bash his station and even his sponsors, to the delight of listener
Paley salutes radio raconteur Shepherd - Entertainment News, TV News, Media - Variety
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red some strong ratings for a network that has been by and large out of the spotlight. However, the numbers have slipped since then thanks to competition from MSNBC — though his edition of “Countdown” is still to be considered a success.
Keith Olbermann slams reports of being ‘disgruntled’ at Current TV - National TV | Examiner.com
e end of ‘Countdown with Keith Olbermann’ came as quite a shock to viewers of the program, and possibly to Keith himself. The end of the program was announced abruptly by Olbermann the night he aired his final show. Olbermann, who hosted the show for 8 years on MSNBC, now hosts Countdown on CurrentTV. Regis Philbin Leaves ‘Live
2011: A Tumultuous Year For Television - San Diego City Buzz | Examiner.com
dumbest thing NYC could do to #Occupy is what they are doing right now. Suppression always has the opposite effect
Tweet from Keith Olbermann on #Occupy Wall Street raid right now | Scott Cramer wrote this.
rent TV, the prime-time home of Keith Olbermann, Wednesday announced a strong election-year move with Jennifer Granholm joining the channel in January to host a show weeknights at 9 following Olbermann’s. Granholm, the former governor of Michigan, will be host of “The War Room with jennifer Granholm,” and I’ll tell you what, I’ll be there with big expectations on opening night.
Jennifer Granholm to join Keith Olbermann’s prime-time lineup at Current TV - Baltimore Sun
eel embarrassed about how giddily infatuated with it I am,” he said of brownstone Brooklyn. The couple is expecting their first child, and are deciding whether or not to hyphenate his or her last name. The due date is marked on his office calendar as “D-Day.” “I’m slightly panicked,” he said, his voice trailing off as he stared at the calendar.
MSNBC’s Fresh-Faced Chris Hayes Makes it ‘Up’ as He Goes Along | The New York Observer
h black-rimmed glasses, a down-turning mouth and a messy side part, he actually resembles a cross between Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann—as if engineered in a lab in a network subbasement. And he’s every bit as loquacious and encyclopedic as you’d imagine their unholy progeny would be. Especially when he’s talking about debt. Mr. Hayes is fairly obsessed with wealth inequality and tends to address the topic at a machine-gun clip. “The core economic fact of America since 1973 is rising, accelerating income inequality, more specifically, in a pattern that confers the largest gains t
MSNBC’s Fresh-Faced Chris Hayes Makes it ‘Up’ as He Goes Along | The New York Observer
