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 [...]

NBC’S NEW OLYMPICS BOSS: EVERYTHING WILL BE LIVE

Departing from the strategy implemented by his predecessor Dick Ebersol, who insisted on airing the most popular Olympics events during primetime, NBC Sports Group President Mark Lazarus said on Tuesday that for the 2016 Summer Games in Rio, NBC “will make every event available on one platform or another live.” In a conference call with [...]