I'm curious to see how much of Ebersol leaving was money and how much was
Kabletown vision of NBC Sports was different than Ebersol's.
No one here has mentioned how ESPN and Fox Sports combined a bid on the Pac
12 sports package to keep NBC/Comcast out from getting it. Ebersol may not
have been willing to spend $250 million a year on the Pac 12 or any other
package other than the NFL but in the current market Comcast wants to and
needs to.
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From: "Tom Wolper" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Dick Ebersol Out At NBC Sports
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.
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