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Different things, there's no doubt that keith olberman had a dramatic impact on the branding of msnbc, but also changing the financial fortunes of the network, as well. so he was the face of the network. look at what they were able to do over the past year. he was out for an extended period of time. his father had been ill, passed away. lawrence o'donnell filled in for him and when you look at the ratings, held those numbers strongly. they put o'donnell in at 10:00 and they set themselves up perfectly to have, in essence, a bench. so when they were ready to make this move, schultz was already ...

And it's a much more corporate button down culture. i don't think nbc executives tried to talk him out of it, he saw the handwriting on the wall and he may have decided that the kind of fierce indepen dance that he values was not going to be possible under the new regime. so it may not be an accident that this happens now, a week before comcast takes over. this isn't the first time, anderson, that olberman has left msnbc. he left in 1998. he criticized his bosses. he has a history of doing that. at the same time, he's a pretty talented broadcaster when he doesn't let his emotions run away with...

It's a fact he's not happy. while the fcc just approved that comcast-nbc universal merger on tuesday, it doesn't seem comcast didn't use their heavy hand. it seems that nbc and msnbc as steve and phil might have come to the conclusion that their new positions weren't going for as tall rant of keith's temperament. but the reality is, it's probably more than likely that keith olberman himself precipitated this arrangement. keith has signaled for some time he's been ready to move on and the closure of this deal may just have a precipitating event. from what we understand, anderson, no direct conn...

Personality. >> roland, what do you make of it? >> if you look at several different things, there's no doubt that keith olberman had a dramatic impact on the branding of msnbc, but also changing the financial fortunes of the network, as well. so he was the face of the network. look at what they were able to do over the past year. remember he was out for an extended period of time. his father had been ill, passed away. lawrence o'donnell filled in for him and when you look at the ratings, held those numbers very strongly. they put o'donnell in at 10:00 so pretty much they set themselves up perf...

Suspension to go public, to go on "good morning america" and larry king, fact. in response, phil griffin, the president of msnbc, told his agent if he did that, he would be fired. so relations had so badly deteriorated after years of internal struggles, even though olberman is a very talented broadcaster who basically revived msnbc, led it in a letward direction, which was good for its rate lgs. despite the key role that he played at that network, the relations were so frayed with people who had been his friends for years and felt he had become very angry on the year, i became convinced it was...