Keith Olbermann Makes Large Donation to Student-Run Radio Station

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Keith Olbermann has given a significant donation to WVBR-FM, the radio station in Ithaca, N.Y. where his career arguably began when he was a student at Cornell University.

Olbermann’s gift will allow WVBR – a commercial radio station run entirely by Cornell students – to move into a new, bigger facility much closer to the Cornell campus. The new building on East Buffalo Street in Ithaca will be named Olbermann-Corneliess Studios, after Olbermann’s late father Theodore Olbermann and Glenn Corneliess, a former program director at the station and a friend of Olbermann’s who died in 1996 at 39.

... Olbermann, who graduated from Cornell in 1979, served as sports director at WVBR when he was in college and has remained an active supporter of the station. This is actually the third time he’s helped WVBR with monetary gifts. Two prior contributions a few years back kept the station from going bankrupt, according to WVBR board member Peter Schacknow, who worked with Olbermann at the station when they were students at Cornell.

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