After a turbulent year, Current TV, Al Gore finally parted with the fire Friday, the owner of Keith Olbermann."Countdown," Olbermann show was canceled on Friday and had to be replaced by one featuring former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. In a statement, Al Gore, former vice-president and Nobel laureate, and his business partner Joel Hyatt dragged them extremely candid host to which they would give a salary of $ 10 million, and interest in the hope that he would raise the profile of a network of tiny.
Gore and Hyatt said the government was based on "values of respect, openness, collegiality and loyalty to our viewers. Unfortunately, these values are not reflected in our relationship with Keith Olbermann, and we're done." Spokesman today declined to go into details.
Olbermann - who survived a rocky period with a number of previous employers, ranging from ESPN to MSNBC - flowed quickly on Twitter, now calling the "failure" and a description of his decision to join as a "stupid".
"Termination of Keith Olbermann is without merit," said Patty Glaser, a lawyer by Olbermann. "We will sue for their breach. They made a bad decision, they can count on a good result."
"Countdown" has not brought a large current ratings, the audience will stabilize at about 200,000 people a day, according to Nielsen. When the program was on MSNBC, it attracts nearly five times more.
Network Olbermann said Thursday morning that his services are no longer needed. A source close to the situation said bosses grew frustrated after the owner has repeatedly without a valid reason for the lack of "Countdown", including the night before Super Tuesday primaries on March 6, when interest in its own brand of political speech was at a premium.
But Olbermann and his bosses have been controversial for several months. He was so upset because of technical problems on the network last year at some point he started doing his show in a darkened studio, the impact is intended to simulate the lighting problems that tenacious "Countdown." Earlier this year, he finished a boycott of the current coverage of the Iowa caucuses, in a quarrel that went public, but it was corrected later.
Two months ago, the current model, assured reporters that previous conflicts with their host stars were resolved.
"We're fine," Gore said the Los Angeles Times in January, when he was asked about the situation Olbermann.
Both sides tried to come to an agreement of Thursday and Friday, but remained far apart, according to two sources with knowledge of the case. Terms of the rich enjoy Olbermann may have brought to the difficult relationship with his managers to take 40 million dollars to settle.
Gore and Hyatt Olbermann accused of cynical money saving movement.
"Over the years I have asked Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, to solve our problems at home, while I do not know about my complaints, and keep alive a show for their loyal viewers and more loyal employees," Olbermann tweeted. "Nevertheless, Mr. and Mr. Gore Hyatt, and their promises and commitments and investments in the quality of news programs, in the end thought it was more economical to try to break his contract."
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