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 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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We're all a part of General Electric and GE is an earnings-driven company,
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We earn nothing from those rights; they've had no value in the United States.
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This time, uniquely, our competitors have very, very, very strong programming.
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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.
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The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.
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She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember.
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I live more than anything else to produce the Games.
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If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.
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I will never be cynical again about people.
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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.
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You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.
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The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.
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With Tyrone Willingham, the football program is in the right hands. He embodies Notre Dame's core values, and his leadership, character and drive assure Notre Dame's return to its traditional place among the elite national powers.