Current TV dumps Herr Olbermann

Olbermann will be replaced by “Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer,” according to Current TV.

http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2012/03/30/breaking-al-gores-current-tv- terminates-relationship-with-keith-olbermann/
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/current-tv-dismisses- keith-olbermann/

This will be Mr. Spitzer’s second shot at an 8 p.m. talk show; in 2010, two years after he resigned the governorship after admitting to his involvement in a prostitution ring, he led a short-lived show on CNN. It was cancelled in mid-2011.

“We are confident that our viewers will be able to count on Governor Spitzer to deliver critical information on a daily basis,” Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt wrote in the letter to viewers.

With those words — “on a daily basis” — the founders of Current hinted at one of the reasons for Mr. Olbermann’s termination. It was the culmination, at least in part, of months of infighting between the famously temperamental Mr. Olbermann and his bosses at Current, including Mr. Hyatt, and David Bohrman, the channel’s president.