The Ticker: Olbermann, Gold, Rather…

> What’s Keith Olbermann been up to in Hollywood? “I filmed a piece for Family Guy,” he told Countdown viewers last week. “I was oil man Bob [in] the episode scheduled for April. It will be my debut as a cartoon unless you count this program…”

> SaveMSNBConXM.com is pushing a petition to keep the cable news net on satellite radio. But the petition only has a few hundred signatures…

> Congrats to Matea Gold! The LAT’s media writer married Jonathan Lenzner on Sunday…

> “Dan Rather refused to be interviewed for ‘Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather,’ telling author Alan Weisman that ‘there’s nothing in this for me,” Bloomberg reports (via FTVLive)…

> I’m sure you’ve seen Gawker’s item about Campbell Brown…

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