Dick Ebersol Out at NBCU Sports
NBC Universal chairman Dick Ebersol has resigned his post after Ebersol and his new corporate overlords at Comcast were unable to reach a deal for a new contract. Ebersol had been running the network’s sports programming since 1989–with mixed results. Recently, the network lost about $220 million on its Vancouver Olympics coverage after Ebersol’s bid $2 billion for 2010 and 2012 — an amount most consider to be ludicrously high.
Then there was Ebersol deciding to stick his nose where it didn’t belong in the Leno/Conan late night war–saying of Conan’s initial ascension to the Tonight Show, “we backed the wrong guy.”
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