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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We're asked that question every time before an Olympics, and I really don't believe it's going to happen. The Olympics are unique. People come in large numbers . . . to really be engaged by these very unique athletes who put so much on the line for such a brief, brief period of their athletic careers.
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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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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,
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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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We're all a part of General Electric and GE is an earnings-driven company,
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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.