Word: ebersol
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...bids "reckless," saying it wasn't worth more than $340 million a year to keep the AFC rights, the weakest in the package, or more than $500 million a year to obtain Monday Night, considered the strongest. "There was no chance of making money in this deal," said Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports, after the announcements. "I'll guess [it's] a loss of $150 million to $175 million a year. We simply don't believe in being associated with that kind of loss." The Peacock will have to console itself with other sports, such as the Olympic Games...
Rarely has a show fallen so far so fast, and last week the network scrambled to repair it. Out went Dick Ebersol, senior executive in charge of the show, who had picked Norville and who graciously, if inescapably, took the blame for the decline that followed. (Ebersol remains head of NBC Sports.) On June 4, in will come a third host, the amiable Joe Garagiola, a onetime catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals who was one of the show's stalwarts from 1969 to 1973. "It's incredible that I could come back," says Garagiola, 64, who was dropped...