Stark Relief on Olympic TV
By pucksandbooks -
August 16, 2008
Just one blogger's opinion, but there's way, way too much attention on Michael Phelps and his Olympic heroism in the pool and not nearly enough on the liberation of broadcaster Melissa Stark. Recall that the Maryland native once captured the Monday Night obsession of male football fans coast to coast. Then she left MNF for a middling correspondent's gig at NBC. Then she disappeared into broadcast Siberia (MSNBC); here's how the hosts at sidelineshotties.com put it:
"ABC blonde cutie Melissa Stark went from working Monday Night Football and the Superbowl to doing anchor duty for MSNBC. So basically she went from being seen by half the world’s population to being seen by Fred and Jane in Iowa."
Well, NBC's broadcast partnership with its cable sibling for the Olympics means Stark is out of very low rated cable news witness protection and back where she belongs: in high definition for about a billion sets of eyes. A gold medal moment indeed.
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