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IN late October of last year, MSNBC moved its offices from Secaucus, N.J., to NBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. “It was cool,” one longtime MSNBC employee says of the move. “All these old offices with so much history… you’d be walking around and someone would point out John Belushi’s old office.”

But one MSNBC employee wasn’t happy with his office. According to two sources who worked for the network at the time, Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s Countdown, didn’t like his door. It had a window. He wanted a solid one.

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IN late October of last year, MSNBC moved its offices from Secaucus, N.J., to NBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. “It was cool,” one longtime MSNBC employee says of the move. “All these old offices with so much history… you’d be walking around and someone would point out John Belushi’s old office.”

But one MSNBC employee wasn’t happy with his office. According to two sources who worked for the network at the time, Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s Countdown, didn’t like his door. It had a window. He wanted a solid one.