The powerful TV Executive behind the performances of "Saturday Night Live" to "sunday night Football" resigned Thursday as head of NBC Sports in a contract dispute with his new bosses at Comcast.
The break was sudden and unexpected: Ebersol was given a promotion when Comcast took over NBCUniversal earlier this year and seemed Monday to a NBC presentation gave to advertisers in New York, throw footballs from the scene and talk about the London 2012 Olympic Games coverage.
Now, he said that it will be a spectator not involved.
"I think it's going to be fun, once I get past thinking," I would have done that differently "," he said in a telephone interview with the Associated Press Thursday.
Ebersol, who is married to actress Susan Saint James, survived a plane crash that killed their son adolescents in 2004.
He has had a profound effect on what the nation watched on television since the 1970s - and its output could portend big changes in the landscape of the TV in the next decade.
Ebersol said that he wanted to "make a really cool deal" with Comcast executives. "We could not find in the same place.". His nine years with NBC contract was to expire at the end of next year.
He said that his resignation has been timed partly therefore it would be obvious with Comcast and the International Olympic Committee that it is more involved with the Olympic Games.
Mark Lazarus, the former President of Turner Entertainment Group, which has joined the company in February to run his operation of cable sports, will replace Ebersol.
It is an another major signal that the Philadelphia-based cable giant was breaking with past recent NBC. In the same presentation to advertisers this week, new Comcast appointed by Ted Palmer made a point to say that NBC had to make "a little less reinventing the wheel" and return to the essence of broadcasting.
"I had a long term and loved every bit of it, Ebersol was.".
Dedication of the Ebersol of 63 years for the Olympic Games dates back to 1967, when he temporarily left Yale to work for ABC as a researcher of Olympic Games next to the famous producer of television Roone Arledge.
Ebersol, who started to NBC Sports current execution in 1989, he made the Olympic Games network: NBC has broadcast every summer Olympics since the 1988 Winter Games and each since 2002.
"I have brought the five rings (Olympic of) in my heart as much as anyone," said Ebersol.
Under Ebersol, TV NBC since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics were billed as "plausible live" - a term coined to describe the presentation of the material recorded as if it were alive, retaining viewers results to increase the suspense.
When NBC showed some events in Atlanta a few hours after they took place, it has secured grilled by critics.
Even in addition to these recent years, its coverage of the Olympic Games - some live, some recorded - was called anachronistic in the world of quick information. But Ebersol said the strong ratings that reach the Olympic Games are a sign that his style, which dates back to Arledge, is the right one.
Next month, the IOC organizes its auction for the rights to broadcast games of 2014 in Sochi, Russia winter and 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Networks can also bid on a package of four games, including Olympics of 2018 and 2020, including host cities have not yet been chosen. The IOC is hoping to exceed the previous transaction of $ 2.2 billion.
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