Looks like Olbermann Watch might finally have some competition as the #1 Keith Olbermann web site in the world - from Keith himself. BeetTV has a review of the new Countdown mini-site (countdown.msnbc.com) launched by MSNBC>

On Friday, msnbc.com quietly launched a mini-site dedicated to "Countdown with Keith Olbermann." The company will make an announcement shortly, but Beet has been checking it out. Mighty convenient to find Keith's show and related clips like world's "worst" and "best" persons and one of our favorites, Oddball.

Elsewhere, looks like the third-place homeland for the liberal media will be the last of the cable channels to broadcast in HD, according to a report in Multichannel News.

CNN was the first to jump into the game with the launch of a simulcast CNN HD in September 2007. Fox News followed on May 1, 2008 and MSNBC is planning to launch its HD offering sometime in the fourth quarter.

"We hope to get it on earlier in the fourth quarter rather than later," said Phil Griffin, senior vice president of NBC News and executive in charge of MSNBC. "It is critical that we get out there."

This marks a major shift for the news networks, which have been much slower to embrace HD production than sports, movie, drama and documentary programmers.