Dick Ebersol
Duncan Ebersol born July 28, 1947 is an American television executive and the former Chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics. Ebersol is best known for producing large scale television events, especially the Olympics for NBC Ebersol was born in Torrington, Connecticut, the son of Mary D. and Charles R. Ebersol, a former chairman of the American Cancer Society.
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. In 1989, Ebersol returned to NBC as president of NBC Sports.Heserved as executive producer for the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, his first Olympics since Munich in 1972 for ABC.
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