EBERSOL RETURNS TO NBC SPORTS — AS A “SPECIAL ADVISER”

Just three months after resigning as head of NBC Sports and Olympics, Dick Ebersol is returning to the network as a special adviser, the New York Times reported today (Wednesday), citing several senior NBC executives. How his role will be different from what it was when he was officially running the unit was not spelled [...]

TODAY PRODUCER CALLS LAUER QUITTING RUMOR “LUDICROUS”

Jim Bell, the executive producer of NBC’s Today show, says that the increasing speculation that Matt Lauer will be leaving the show when his contract expires at the end of next year is “ludicrous.” In an interview with today’s (Friday) Hollywood Reporter, Bell remarked: “When we’re talking about something that is almost two years away, [...]