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05-15-2001, 10:44 PM
Olbermann no longer behind microphone at Fox
.c The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Keith Olbermann is leaving Fox Sports, his third departure from a TV network in four years.
``All I can say is, ultimately, it's their network and it's their money,'' Olbermann said Tuesday.
Fox described the move, effective immediately, as ``by mutual agreement.''
``Both parties agree that, long-term, our goals are divergent,'' Fox Sports chairman David Hill said.
Olbermann will be paid until the end of the year under the three-year contract he signed to join Fox in January 1999. That was two months after the network bought out the nearly two years remaining on his contract with MSNBC, which he had joined from ESPN in June 1997.
He was the anchor and executive producer of ``The Keith Olbermann Evening News'' on Fox Sports Net on Sunday nights since August and was host of Fox's Saturday pregame baseball studio show.
The Sunday show's ratings were about 12 percent lower than FSN drew in the same slot in the year before the program's debut.
FSN will replace Olbermann's Sunday night show with a one-hour edition of the ``National Sports Report.''
AP-NY-05-15-01 1928EDT
.c The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Keith Olbermann is leaving Fox Sports, his third departure from a TV network in four years.
``All I can say is, ultimately, it's their network and it's their money,'' Olbermann said Tuesday.
Fox described the move, effective immediately, as ``by mutual agreement.''
``Both parties agree that, long-term, our goals are divergent,'' Fox Sports chairman David Hill said.
Olbermann will be paid until the end of the year under the three-year contract he signed to join Fox in January 1999. That was two months after the network bought out the nearly two years remaining on his contract with MSNBC, which he had joined from ESPN in June 1997.
He was the anchor and executive producer of ``The Keith Olbermann Evening News'' on Fox Sports Net on Sunday nights since August and was host of Fox's Saturday pregame baseball studio show.
The Sunday show's ratings were about 12 percent lower than FSN drew in the same slot in the year before the program's debut.
FSN will replace Olbermann's Sunday night show with a one-hour edition of the ``National Sports Report.''
AP-NY-05-15-01 1928EDT