Dick Ebersol
Dick Ebersol
Duncan "Dick" Ebersolis an American television executive and a senior adviser for NBC Universal Sports & Olympics. He had previously been the chairman of NBC Sports, producing large scale television events such as the Olympic Games and National Football League broadcasts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth28 July 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.
people cynical
I will never be cynical again about people.
careers olympics ifs
If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.
games produce
I live more than anything else to produce the Games.
sexy leather-pants firsts
She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember.
actresses host knows
The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.
loss winning rights
The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.
available games percent point prime time watch
They tell us they want to watch the Games when they're available to watch the Games. Over 90 percent of them say that they're available in prime time and at no other point during the day.
And I had no idea what that was.
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The bottom line is we did not deliver the goods with that league, ... This sport (arena football) is well organized at the grass roots level, operations and players, rules and regulations ... all those things that were part of us tripping ourselves up a year ago with the XFL.
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Story is a driving force of anything in sports and entertainment. Not having the playoffs play out in front of the large audience as they had done in the past I think was one factor.
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Now he's got the best of both worlds.
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After seeing the results of pre-Olympic Trials and competitions and looking at the schedule more closely, we've decided that now there was simply too much rich content featuring some of this Olympics' biggest stars and we needed more time to tell these great stories on these three nights. If I didn't add these new hours, I would feel like we would have left the audience wanting more.
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The Olympics will now be opened to an entirely new part of the world where one-fifth of the world's population can experience the world's greatest event for the first time,