Olbermann's Overseer

摘要

Managing feisty news anchors is a challenge for any producer, but Izzy Povich, executive producer of MSNBC's Countdown With Keith 01-bermann, enjoys an unusually copasetic relationship with her star anchor. The duo have worked together on Countdown for nearly six years, share a vision for their program and almost always agree on stories and segments. "We do stories that people are talking about," Povich says. "We produce a news show and infuse it with opinion." To say the least. Their cooperation enables Povich and Olbermann to pull off a most unorthodox production schedule. Povich works a daytime shift and collaborates with Olbermann in the afternoon, but she heads home to her family well before the show's 8 p.m. broadcast.