Word: ebersol
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...entrepreneur who had briefly worked at a Chicago theater, to run it. The new venue "struggled for a while" as he remembers, but soon the outlook for Second City - and its brand of satiric comedy - changed forever. On Oct. 11, 1975, Lorne Michaels, along with fellow NBC employee Dick Ebersol and president of the network Herb Schlosser, launched Saturday Night Live, a genre-defining mix of music and sketch comedy whose cast was stocked with Second City alums like Dan Aykroyd and Gilda Radner. In large part thanks to SNL, Alexander says, "comedy became the rock 'n' roll...
TIME asked the three networks that broadcast major golf events - NBC, CBS and ABC/ESPN - to talk about how they have handled the issue. Why did NBC pretty much ignore the scandal last weekend? Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports, offered only this pabulum: "We said what we thought was appropriate to be said given the continuing tabloid nature of the story. We were there to cover a golfing competition. I'm certain there will be a much clearer set of established facts when our PGA Tour coverage resumes next year." CBS will broadcast what some golf pundits expect...
...just doing this because it is still bitter about losing the NFL to Fox, it is still a cheap drunk. "If we had signed the deal to stay with the AFC, we would have lost $150 million to $160 million a year," says NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol, who made McMahon an offer just hours after the WWF announced the league's launch. "So worst-case scenario to us would be a third of what we would have lost...
INJURED. DICK EBERSOL, 57, chairman of NBC Sports; after a chartered plane carrying him and two of his sons, Teddy, 14, and Charlie, 21, crashed on takeoff; in Montrose, Colo. Teddy, Ebersol's youngest son with his wife, actress Susan St. James, was thrown from the jet and killed on impact when it landed on him. The pilot and a crew member were also killed. Charlie was hospitalized along with his father, whom he dragged from the plane to safety. Both are expected to recover...
...Amount paid by Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Sports, at a charity auction to learn the subject of Carly Simon's 1972 hit song You're So Vain. (He promised not to make the name public...