Keith Olbermann must be The Worst Person in the World this week to anyone who works for MSNBC or NBC News.
The longtime sports and news personality spent Thursday afternoon producing an epic 21-post Twitter rant telling of a convoluted effort to return to MSNBC, where he once served as the linchpin of its primetime lineup. Over the course of 11 years and emails and comments sent between an array of senior NBCUniversal executives that run the gamut — from former NBCU News Group chief Pat Fili-Krushel and former NBC News Chairman Andy Lack to current NBCU CEO Jeff Shell — Olbermann alleges he was kept on tenterhooks about a return to the cable network where he had once enjoyed one of his most successful career stints.
“That’s 11 years of conversations about my returning to @msnbc,” he said on Twitter. “Won’t happen. Should’ve.”
MSNBC disputes his accounts. “There was never...
The longtime sports and news personality spent Thursday afternoon producing an epic 21-post Twitter rant telling of a convoluted effort to return to MSNBC, where he once served as the linchpin of its primetime lineup. Over the course of 11 years and emails and comments sent between an array of senior NBCUniversal executives that run the gamut — from former NBCU News Group chief Pat Fili-Krushel and former NBC News Chairman Andy Lack to current NBCU CEO Jeff Shell — Olbermann alleges he was kept on tenterhooks about a return to the cable network where he had once enjoyed one of his most successful career stints.
“That’s 11 years of conversations about my returning to @msnbc,” he said on Twitter. “Won’t happen. Should’ve.”
MSNBC disputes his accounts. “There was never...
- 3/17/2022
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Two simple words uttered on Fox News Channel Friday morning gave its audience obvious facts — and may have served to quell a nascent controversy about how the network intends to cover Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden if he should prove victorious in the 2020 election.
After CNN reported Friday morning that it had reviewed “two memos” instructing Fox News talent to “stay away” from calling Democratic candidate Joe Biden the “President-elect” when the network calls the race, Fox News anchor Bret Baier used the phrase on air. And Fox News said in a statement that “there have been no network wide memos or editorial guidance from Fox News” regarding use of the phrase.
CNN noted “email messages” that suggested staffers “should stay away from calling him [Biden] ‘President-elect’ for the time being.” Another “email message” told recipients “we will not be calling Biden the president elect. Or using any of the whizbang graphics that say so.
After CNN reported Friday morning that it had reviewed “two memos” instructing Fox News talent to “stay away” from calling Democratic candidate Joe Biden the “President-elect” when the network calls the race, Fox News anchor Bret Baier used the phrase on air. And Fox News said in a statement that “there have been no network wide memos or editorial guidance from Fox News” regarding use of the phrase.
CNN noted “email messages” that suggested staffers “should stay away from calling him [Biden] ‘President-elect’ for the time being.” Another “email message” told recipients “we will not be calling Biden the president elect. Or using any of the whizbang graphics that say so.
- 11/6/2020
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
NBC News pushed back Thursday against Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, who it says “encouraged harassment” of journalist Brandy Zadrozny in a segment on his Wednesday-night broadcast.
During the program, Carlson talked to Darren Beattie, a former speechwriter for President Trump who left the White House in 2018 after CNN reported that he had attended a conference that included white nationalists among its participants. Beattie told CNN in a statement at the time that he attended the conference and “delivered a stand-alone, academic talk titled ‘The Intelligentsia and the Right.’ I said nothing objectionable and stand by my remarks completely.”
The former Trump aide resurfaced this week on Twitter, calling out Zadrozny for examining public records to identify people who launch harassment efforts without divulging their identity. Since the segment aired, a number of NBC News employees, including MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes, have risen to her defense.
In a statement released Thursday afternoon,...
During the program, Carlson talked to Darren Beattie, a former speechwriter for President Trump who left the White House in 2018 after CNN reported that he had attended a conference that included white nationalists among its participants. Beattie told CNN in a statement at the time that he attended the conference and “delivered a stand-alone, academic talk titled ‘The Intelligentsia and the Right.’ I said nothing objectionable and stand by my remarks completely.”
The former Trump aide resurfaced this week on Twitter, calling out Zadrozny for examining public records to identify people who launch harassment efforts without divulging their identity. Since the segment aired, a number of NBC News employees, including MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes, have risen to her defense.
In a statement released Thursday afternoon,...
- 10/22/2020
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Uber has chosen Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi as its new chief executive, according to multiple media reports. Khoshowshahi was a surprise choice to take over the ride-sharing company that has been leaderless since founding CEO Travis Kalanick resigned under pressure in June. There had been much speculation on who would take over Uber. Former Ge CEO Jeff Immelt tweeted on Sunday that he was taking his name out of consideration. Also Read: Uber the Movie: Who Will Play Travis Kalanick? (Photos) The board had also been talking to former Hewlett Packard boss Meg Whitman but decided to go with Khoshowshahi.
- 8/28/2017
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Today, President Donald Trump announced that the United States will be pulling out of the historic Paris Accord, an agreement on climate change and environmental policy, signed just over a year ago by then-Secretary of State John Kerry. Every country in the world but Syria and Nicaragua signed the agreement.
It didn’t take long following Trump’s announcement (which he gave jointly with Epa chief Scott Pruitt) for the reactions from famous names to start rolling in.
Politicians, of course, spoke out. Former President Barack Obama said that the U.S. was no longer a global leader when it comes to climate change.
It didn’t take long following Trump’s announcement (which he gave jointly with Epa chief Scott Pruitt) for the reactions from famous names to start rolling in.
Politicians, of course, spoke out. Former President Barack Obama said that the U.S. was no longer a global leader when it comes to climate change.
- 6/1/2017
- by Diana Pearl
- PEOPLE.com
Our annual Out Of Whack executive pay analysis already told you about the eye-popping compensation packages that Big Media CEOs made last year. But AP adds more context to the story this morning by showing that the amounts not only are high in absolute terms, they’re also outsized in comparison with the rest of corporate America. Six of the country’s 10 highest-paid CEOs come from media: CBS’ Les Moonves (No. 2, $65.6M), Viacom’s Philippe Dauman (No. 5, $37.2M), Disney’s Bob Iger (No. 7, $34.3M), Discovery’s David Zaslav (No. 8, $33.3M), Time Warner’s Jeff Bewkes (No. 9, $32.5M), and Comcast’s Brian Roberts (No. 10, $31.4M). What’s interesting in the AP story, based on data from corporate proxies compiled by research firm Equilar, is how media chiefs compare with CEOs at companies that have far more impact on the economy. For example, ExxonMobil’s Rex Tillerson came in at No. 12 with $28.1M,...
- 5/27/2014
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Financial Editor
- Deadline TV
Ge chief Jeff Immelt was asked by Charlie Rose in an interview on his PBS broadcast this evening why the company sold a majority stake in NBCUniversal to Comcast. “We’re an operating company, we’re not a holding company. When I go into an oil and gas review I have 1,000 ideas. When I see our health care business I have 1,500 good ideas. At the end of NBC I’d say, ‘Make better shows and buy more cable’…I didn’t have 52 good ideas. I had two.” Still he says he doesn’t regret the period when he ran the entertainment giant. He noted that during the Ge years NBCU launched the Harry Potter theme park attraction, aired the Olympics and the NFL, introduced The Voice, and beefed up its cable network holdings.
- 12/11/2012
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
- Deadline TV
The most buzzed-about media sale in years inched another step closer to fruition late Monday as General Electric reached an agreement to buy the 20% stake in NBC Universal held by Vivendi.
The deal with the French conglomerate would pave the way for GE to sell control of the movie studio and its broadcast and various cable networks to Comcast, the country's largest U.S. cable TV provider.
Reports late Monday suggested the understanding between GE and Vivendi has been reached but has yet to be formalized. GE chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt flew to Paris last week to meet with some of the Gallic shareholders. GE will apparently fork over some $5.8 billion for the stake, which values NBC Uni at $29 billion.
That hurdle overcome, Philadelphia-based Comcast can proceed to become one of the nation's largest entertainment companies by buying 51% of the Hollywood-based major in a complex transaction that would leave GE with a large,...
The deal with the French conglomerate would pave the way for GE to sell control of the movie studio and its broadcast and various cable networks to Comcast, the country's largest U.S. cable TV provider.
Reports late Monday suggested the understanding between GE and Vivendi has been reached but has yet to be formalized. GE chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt flew to Paris last week to meet with some of the Gallic shareholders. GE will apparently fork over some $5.8 billion for the stake, which values NBC Uni at $29 billion.
That hurdle overcome, Philadelphia-based Comcast can proceed to become one of the nation's largest entertainment companies by buying 51% of the Hollywood-based major in a complex transaction that would leave GE with a large,...
- 11/30/2009
- by By Paul Bond
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Network executives have reportedly ended the on-air feud between Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann. The Fox News and MSNBC hosts have been engaged in a war of words over the past few years, which have increased the ratings of both of their TV programmes. Olbermann verbally attacked O'Reilly on his Countdown With Keith Olbermann show often and accused Fox News of journalistic malpractice, while the O'Reilly Factor facilitator led a campaign against NBC's parent company General Electric. However, PBS host Charlie Rose asked Ge chairman Jeffrey Immelt and Fox Corporation president Rupert Murdoch about the quarrelling at a summit in May, which led executives (more)...
- 8/4/2009
- by By Tim Parks
- Digital Spy
A flurry of meetings between executives at NBC Universal and DreamWorks could pave the way for the top execs at DreamWorks to move their base of operations from Paramount to Universal. But sources familiar with the overtures, described as a rapprochement, say that formal negotiations have not begun.
DreamWorks co-founder David Geffen is scheduled to have an upcoming dinner with Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric, NBC Uni's parent company. NBC Uni president and CEO Jeff Zucker and Universal Studios president and COO Ron Meyer also are expected to attend. The dinner, said to be a long-standing engagement, would Mark Geffen's first meeting with Immelt since NBC Uni's efforts to acquire DreamWorks in 2005 came up short when NBC Uni downgraded its original offer by about $100 million.
The New York Times on Saturday reported that negotiations to bring DreamWorks co-founder Steven Spielberg and CEO Stacey Snider to Uni had hit a wall over financing -- with Geffen wanting Uni to provide annual financing for the live-action film unit, while Uni was looking for Geffen to bring in outside financing.
DreamWorks co-founder David Geffen is scheduled to have an upcoming dinner with Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric, NBC Uni's parent company. NBC Uni president and CEO Jeff Zucker and Universal Studios president and COO Ron Meyer also are expected to attend. The dinner, said to be a long-standing engagement, would Mark Geffen's first meeting with Immelt since NBC Uni's efforts to acquire DreamWorks in 2005 came up short when NBC Uni downgraded its original offer by about $100 million.
The New York Times on Saturday reported that negotiations to bring DreamWorks co-founder Steven Spielberg and CEO Stacey Snider to Uni had hit a wall over financing -- with Geffen wanting Uni to provide annual financing for the live-action film unit, while Uni was looking for Geffen to bring in outside financing.
- 11/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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