Duncan "Dick" Ebersol (born July 28, 1947 in Torrington, Connecticut) is an American radio and TV executive. He was protégé of ABC Sports czar Roone Arledge and was a key NBC executive in the launching of Saturday Night Live in 1975 and which he produced from April 1981 to May 1985. He became president of NBC Sports in April 1989. In May 2004, Dick Ebersol was named chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics. He is responsible for all sports pro...
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Duncan "Dick" Ebersol (born July 28, 1947 in Torrington, Connecticut) is an American radio and TV executive. He was protégé of ABC Sports czar Roone Arledge and was a key NBC executive in the launching of Saturday Night Live in 1975 and which he produced from April 1981 to May 1985. He became president of NBC Sports in April 1989. In May 2004, Dick Ebersol was named chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics. He is responsible for all sports programming on the NBC and USA Networks and also manages NBC Universal's involvement with the Olympics.
He has been instrumental in bringing Sunday Night Football to NBC; it replaced ABC's Monday Night Football in the fall of 2006. In the film Monday Night Mayhem about the origin of Monday Night Football, he is portrayed by Glenn Howerton. He has also been instrumental in keeping the contract for University of Notre Dame football for NBC.
He received his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1971, after dropping out in 1968 to work as a...
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