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Olbermann makes cut for NBC's 'Football Night'


April 17, 2007 The "Countdown" anchor, recently signed to a multiyear deal to stay with MSNBC, will add another job to his resume in the fall as co-host of NBC's "Football Night in America." NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol said Monday that Olbermann will join co-host Bob Costas and analysts Tiki Barber, Jerome Bettis and Cris Collinsworth in the second year of the "Football Night in America" that precedes the network's "Sunday Night Football" telecasts. Ebersol said Monday that Olbermann was in the midst of negotiations when NBC Uni CEO Jeff Zucker asked Ebersol if he would like Olbermann to become a part of NBC Sports again.

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