It reflected what could have been the direction of sports news on Fox Sports Net if not for the gradual change in program philosophy after Olbermann's arrival. But as the National Sports Report was revamped by producer Scott Ackerson to emphasize analysts over anchors, the Jack Haleys of the world got more airtime than the Olbermanns. So it made sense for him to make the move to a single Sunday night show, based on the theory one good show is better than spot duty as straight man on four or five lesser shows per week. Add the ascendance of regional sports news over national news, and you can make a case that it didn't make sense for either party to continue. So no more Keith Olbermann Evening News , and Sunday is the last episode of the season for The Sopranos .
TV really is a vast wasteland.
Even if You're Alone . He is philosophical about the end of his two-plus years at Fox. Beyond that, what could have happened and what didn't happen was largely out of my hands and may have been out of my employers' hands, too. The format worked. It sustained its audience for a full hour, and people who found it liked it and became loyal to it in the same manner, if not in the same volume, that people found and liked and became loyal to SportsCenter in its heyday years.