Keith Olbermann Biography – Keith Olbermann Wiki
Keith Olbermann (born Keith Theodore Olbermann) is an American sport and political commentator and writer. He spent the first 20 years of his career in sports journalism. He worked as a sports correspondent for CNN and for local television and radio stations in the 1980s and became a three-time winner of the Best Sportscaster award from the California Associated Press. He was a co-host of ESPN’s SportsCenter from 1992 to 1997. From 1998 to 2001 he was a producer and anchor for Fox Sports Net and a host for Fox Sports’ coverage of Major League Baseball. From March 2003 to January 2011 he was the host of the weeknight political commentary program Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. He garnered attention for his pointed criticism of right-wing and conservative politicians and public figures. Although he has frequently been described as a “liberal,” he has tried to resist being labeled politically, stating, “I’m not a liberal. I’m an American.”
He was the chief news officer of the Current TV network and the host of a Current TV program also called Countdown with Keith Olbermann from 2011 to March 30, 2012. From July 2013 until July 2015 he hosted a late-afternoon show on ESPN2 and TSN2 called Olbermann as well as TBS’s Major League Baseball postseason coverage. From September 2016 until November 2017, He was the host of a web series for GQ, titled The Closer with Keith Olbermann, covering the 2016 U.S. presidential election, later renamed The Resistance with Keith Olbermann after the victory of Donald Trump. In January 2018, he went back to ESPN’s SportsCenter program, expanding in May to some baseball play-by-play work. On October 6, 2020, he again resigned from ESPN to start a political commentary program on his YouTube channel.
He studied at the Hackley School in nearby Tarrytown. He became a dedicated fan of baseball at a young age, a love he inherited from his mother, who was a lifelong New York Yankees fan. As a teenager, he often wrote about baseball card-collecting and appeared in many sports card-collecting periodicals of the mid-1970s. He is also referenced in Sports Collectors Bible, a 1979 book by Bert Sugar, which is considered one of the important early books for trading card collectors. While at Hackley, he started his broadcasting career as a play-by-play announcer for WHTR. After graduating from Hackley in 1975, he joined Cornell University at the age of 16. While in college, he served as sports director for WVBR, a student-run commercial radio station in Ithaca. He graduated from Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1979 with a BS in communication. He has made several acting appearances either as himself or simply as a sports/newscaster, most notably as Tom Jumbo-Grumbo (a blue whale newscaster on the MSNBSea network) in several episodes of BoJack Horseman.
Keith Olbermann Age
He was born on January 27, 1959 in New York, New York, United States.
Keith Olbermann Wife
He has never married. He lived three years with WNBC’s Katy Tur, from 2006 to 2009. They split up and Tur is now married with her own family.
Keith Olbermann Family
He is the eldest of two children. He has a younger sister named Jenna, born in 1968. He was brought up in a Unitarian household in the town of Hastings-on-Hudson.
Keith Olbermann Parents
His parents are the late Marie Katherine Charbonier who was a preschool teacher, and the late Theodore Olbermann, who worked as a commercial architect. His father, Theodore, died on March 13, 2010, as a result of complications from colon surgery. His mother had died several months before. His ancestry is traced to Germany.
Keith Olbermann Net Worth
Keith Olbermann’s estimated net worth is about $25 Million.