Dick Ebersol, who replaced Lorne Michaels as the show's producer, said that Shearer was " a gifted performer but a pain in the butt.

Sarducci also hosted two SNL episodes during the 1983-1984 ( when Dick Ebersol was executive producer ) and cameoed during two 1990s episodes, most notably on a Weekend Update segment where he reports on Pope John Paul II's missing wallet.

He also was a writer for Jean Doumanian's sixth season from 1980 to 1981, making him one of the few cast members to work for all three producers of SNL ( Lorne Michaels, Jean Doumanian, and Dick Ebersol ).

For instance, NBC television executive Dick Ebersol said after the failed 2016 bid, " This was the IOC membership saying to the USOC there will be no more domestic Olympics until you join the Olympic movement ".

At SNL, Short helped revive the show with his many characters for the show's tenth season ( the last one produced by Dick Ebersol ), which was in danger of falling in quality, thanks to the departures of Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo, so Ebersol decided to fill his cast with experienced actors and comedy performers in order to keep the show alive ( Lorne Michaels would attempt the same thing in season 11, with disastrous results ).

With the top bid of $ 50, 000, Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports and a friend of Simon, won the right to know the name of the person " You're So Vain " was written about.

Ebersol was given a private performance of the song at Simon's home and Simon whispered the name into his ear.

A condition of the prize was that Ebersol would not reveal the person to anyone.

" Although Simon, at times, had suggested that the subject of the song was a composite of several people, the clue she allowed Ebersol to reveal was a letter in the person's name, implying the subject is one person.

Ebersol was born in Torrington, Connecticut, the son of Mary ( née Duncan ) and Charles Roberts Ebersol, a former chairman of the American Cancer Society.

It was in 1975 that Ebersol and Lorne Michaels conceived and developed Saturday Night Live.

Ebersol became president of NBC Sports in 1989, and was promoted to Chairman, NBC Sports & Olympics in June 1998.

It was following this run in 1996 that The Sporting News named Ebersol the “ Most Powerful Person in Sports .” By January 1998, NBC had become the home of four Super Bowls in six years.

The Super Bowl milestone was made possible in 2005 when Ebersol spearheaded the effort to return the NFL to NBC by negotiating a six-year agreement that included moving the NFL primetime broadcast package from Monday night to Sunday night, flexible scheduling for the first time ever, and Super Bowls in 2009 and 2012

It was later reported that Ebersol would return to NBC Sports in time for the beginning of the 2011 NFL season to serve in a senior adviser role.

On June 10, 2006, Teddy Ebersol Field was dedicated along the Charles River in Boston.

Ebersol has often been in the top 10 honorees on The Sporting News annual list of the 100 most powerful sports figures, including in 1996 when he was named the Most Powerful Person in Sports.

In 1992, Ebersol was awarded the Olympic Order, an honor periodically bestowed by the International Olympic Committee to recognize remarkable contributions to the Olympic Movement.

In 2005, Ebersol was inducted into both the U. S. Olympic Hall of Fame and the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame

In May 2010, Ebersol was the commencement speaker at Sacred Heart University for its graduating class of 2010.

Paul Norbert Ebersol was born in Dayton, Ohio.

NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol added that it wasn't cost-effective for NBC to be putting out the kind of money that Major League Baseball wanted.

On the deal, NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol had this to say:

Hammond never did call the XFL, though, as NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol said to someone who asked if Hammond would be an XFL commentator, " Anyone that needs credibility will not be doing XFL.

One year later, he moved to NBC ( after being hired by Dick Ebersol to direct comedy programming ).

On Friday, August 29, 1997, Dateline NBC did an extended tribute to Tartikoff featuring many of his proteges including Warren Littlefield, Dick Ebersol, Bill Cosby, Michael J.

Duncan " Dick " Ebersol (; born July 28, 1947 ) is an American television executive and a senior adviser for NBC Universal Sports & Olympics.

In 1983, Ebersol formed No Sleep Productions, an independent production company that created Emmy Award-winning NBC shows Friday Night Videos and Later with Bob Costas.

When Ebersol left SNL in 1985, he devoted his time to his production company until rejoining NBC in 1989.

Ebersol also served as senior vice president of NBC News.

In 2003, Ebersol led NBC to acquire the exclusive U. S. media rights to the 2010 Winter Games and the 2012 Summer Olympics.

In December 2003, Ebersol agreed to a nine-year contract to continue running NBC Sports & Olympics through 2012.

On May 19, 2011, Dick Ebersol resigned from NBC Sports.

At the 2009 SportsBusiness Journal awards ceremony, Ebersol won Sports Executive of the Year and NBC Sports won Best in Sports Television.

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She is the daughter of model Bonnie Trompeter ; and is the niece of actress Susan Saint James and NBC sports executive Dick Ebersol.

By satirizing the head of the nation, SNL redefined the parameters of acceptable television content, and became, according to NBC executive Dick Ebersol, " the first television show to speak the language of the time ".

Tired of recently losing key players to NBC ( such as Cheers George Wendt and Hill Street Blues Betty Thomas ), the Second City top brass directed Ebersol around the corner to the Practical Theatre Company, where he hired Gary Kroeger, Brad Hall, Julia Louis-Dreyfus ( who later married Hall ) to join in the fall.

Like Michaels at the end of Season 5, Ebersol made it known to NBC that he would only return to SNL if the network would take the show off the air for several months to re-cast and rebuild.

Beginning in 1967, at the age of twenty, Ebersol began his long history with the Olympics when he temporarily dropped out of Yale University to join Roone Arledge and ABC Sports as television ’ s first-ever Olympic researcher.

To fill the gap, the network drew up some ideas and brought in Dick Ebersol – a protégé of legendary ABC Sports president Roone Arledge – to develop a 90-minute late-night variety show.

Stafford married radio pioneer Gordon McLendon in 1973, and was then briefly married to Dick Ebersol of NBC Sports and former producer of Saturday Night Live in the 1980s.

In 1989, former ABC Sports and Saturday Night Live producer Dick Ebersol became president of NBC Sports.

Ebersol ’ s early tenure at NBC Sports was highlighted by a string of sports-property acquisitions and renewals, including the Olympics, NFL, NBA, & Notre Dame football.

It was following this run in 1996 that The Sporting News named Ebersol the Most Powerful Person in Sports.

In 1998, Ebersol was named president of NBC Sports and Olympics.