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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The Olympic opening ceremony is the most important event for the vast majority of the athletes here. Most won't come close to a medal. And for them, this is the pinnacle of their athletic careers.
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I saw Al and told him I was hiring Fred. That's when it really hit him.
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John is much more than a football legend, he's an American icon, ... He is the only sports television talent who resonates across all ages - kids grow up today playing his video game and watching him on TV, as their fathers grew up watching him on NFL sidelines every Sunday.
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I was just swept away with how that sounded. It just rolls off your mouth.
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He's certainly the greatest play-by-play person up to this point that NBC sports has ever had. He literally carried the sports division at NBC for so many years on his back. ... He was a remarkable talent, and he was an even more remarkable human being.
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He not only got me off of the plane. He ran back into the plane, which had 3- or 4-foot flames all around it, to look for his brother one more time.
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Sterling made an enormous impression on us at his audition. He has always been unafraid to speak his mind and will bring strong, informed opinions to the show. He has tremendous on-air chemistry with Bob, Cris and Jerome and is the ideal choice to complete our 'Football Night in America' team. I can't wait to get started this fall.
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can't speak for (Michaels), but the only issue is money.
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For the first time a major sports property has largely migrated from network to cable, where the dual revenue streams of subscriber fees and advertising can support the escalating costs of broadcast sports rights, ... In the future, it will become almost impossible for broadcast television sports to match the power of those 'sub' fees, which are unique to the cable world.
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He told me this incredible story that Walt's first really big production as a cartoonist for the cinema had been a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which was before Mickey. And for reasons that aren't still totally clear to me, Walt lost those rights. He didn't have the money to hold onto them.
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I don't think the love affair with the Olympics has changed one iota. What you're asking with an Olympics is for people to give up every night for two weeks of their lives, and they have to be given reasons to do that.
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The first thing I said to Susan in the emergency room was, 'Honey, you're just going to have to realize that we were blessed to have 14 incredible years with Teddy. He's gone.'
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All the electronic marvels now available to viewers are a major selling point in our Olympics coverage.
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He believed in him and told the organizers in whatever country the Olympics was in that they should use him.