Feb 09
A few weeks after making an abrupt departure from MSNBC, left-leaning commentator Keith Olbermann has a new home: Current TV. The channel, launched five years ago as a forwarding thinking station targeted toward the 18-34 demographic, has struggled for viewers, currently pulling in around 23,000 viewers in its prime time slot, despite being available in 60 million homes.
Olbermann, for his part, was pulling in around one million viewers, when he announced his departure and then promptly exited MSNBC. Neither the station nor Olbermann have given reason for his departure–though it did come shortly after he was briefly suspended from the station for making campaign donations in the last midterms.
Current is no doubt best know for two things: being founded by former Vice President Al Goe and the detention of two of its reporters in North Korea, back in 2009.
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