The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Of course Comcast approved the terms of Olberman's departure.

    By Flavius on Sat, 01/22/2011 - 5:28pm |

    The COMCAST  contract with NBC will of course have contained a stand-still clause ,standard  in  such agreements, under which  MSNBC was required to avoid any major changes during this final  period before the Closing,now  scheduled for Jan 28.

    The terms of KO's separation agreement clearly would have taken a while to negotiate and  have contained a clause covering how his departure was related to a Comcast- take over: either requiring   or permitting it. Therefore Comcast must not only  have known about them  but have  agreed . Accordingly when negotiating not only that  but probably most of his separation  agreement  he would in effect  have been negotiating with Comcast .

    Cutting through all that:  almost certainly KO didn't want to work for  Comcast. And vice versa.