On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:19 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, the timing came from Ebersol, and I don't know that Comcast was > low-balling him, but I think you are basically right. Ebersol went into > extend his contract into a long term deal, and probably used it to gauge > Comcast's valuing of him. I think he set a high price, but also no doubt > included commitments regarding the Olympics. He timed it for now because he > thought he had the upper hand going into the Olympic negotiations. He drew a > line in the sand, Comcast called his bluff, so had had to walk.
This makes a lot of sense. Although when he went in to negotiate a long term deal he may have put out his long term vision for NBC Sports and he was told that he'd have to scale it down as Comcast wasn't going to put up that much money. It leads to the same result. > > Ebersol is really good at producing sports telecasts - especially pro > football. He is not as good at making money for the corporations that own > television networks. He sucks at producing late night television comedy > shows. And he was an asshole for dumping on Conan and repeating the lie that > Conan lost money on the Tonight Show for the first time, just as he > (Ebersol) was losing $200M on the winter Olympics. I'll give him credit for what he managed to do with SNL considering the circumstances. He was never going to be Lorne and his SNL wasn't going to be Lorne's. At least he kept it viable and running. For his Conan remark I think he was being a good corporate boy even if that doesn't excuse the remark. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
