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...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...
...group, which deserted the network in Sydney, shot up 31% over the last winter games. "One of the most important lessons to be learned from Sydney was that we had to get back a fair share of the lost 18-34 year olds," said NBC's Sports honcho Dick Ebersol. That's why NBC hammered away at X events in its pre-Olympic promotions...
...DICK EBERSOL, NBC Sports chairman Ka-ching! It's a ratings bonanza for NBC, and the network will gladly reshuffle its schedule of nationally televised weekend games, set to begin the weekend after Thanksgiving. The Wizards were not slated for time on NBC this season - aside from the perennial appearance in the June draft lottery - but that will almost certainly change. Prime Sunday matchups: Dec. 16 at Toronto; Feb. 24 at Miami; and March 3 vs. Orlando...
...major weekend sports to an almost-daily feeding of games and competitions, most of which I had never seen played in real life. It wasn't a case of supply and demand that led to the plethora of sports-only stations; it was Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch and Dick Ebersol teaming up and creating a demand where none existed before...
...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...