Dick Ebersol

If there is one television sportscaster to whom the adjective “legendary” can honestly be applied, it is Al Michaels, play-by-play announcer of NBC's “Sunday Night Football.” From almost two decades in the booth at ABC's “...

The death of former Ravens owner Art Modell has unleashed a flood of warm memories in Baltimore, but Modell is a more complicated figure for many people, who struggle to forgive him for moving his franchise from Cleveland. That conflicted sensibility...

Baltimore's Jim McKay anchored the first American telecast of the Summer Olympics in 1960 from a primitive CBS studio in Grand Central Terminal in New York City. Coverage of the Rome Games totaled 20 hours and cost the network $394,000 in rights fees. On...

The summer's biggest extravaganza ends while a TV event marks its 25th anniversary. The highlights this weekend: 1. The Summer Olympics have produced exhilarating results for American athletes and viewers. The London Games close Sunday, and NBC will relay...

Denny Dillon has lived an improvised life. Whether growing up in Cleveland, only to be thrust into high school in the Philippines, or riffing with John Travolta, which landed her a memorable part in"Saturday Night Fever," or finding herself in an out-of-...

Larry David and David Steinberg talk about comedy timed to launch of Showtime's new series "Inside Comedy."...

Bob Costas is one of television’s most thoughtful and engaging sports commentators. His essays, analyses and interviews for NBC Sports are in a league of their own. He understands the sociology and poetry of sports like few others – and is...

Ross Greenburg, the longtime head of HBO Sports, is leaving the pay-television channel. The move was not entirely unexpected. Over the last several months speculation has grown that there was tension between Greenburg and his bosses at HBO over the......

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NBCUniversal Steve Burke hires Stuart Epstein of Morgan Stanley to be chief financial officer of NBCUniversal. The move completes the purging of GE executives from the top ranks of NBCUniversal...

Fees from distributors along with a cut of revenue that NBC affiliates get as well should add up to "hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars," NBC Universal Chief Executive Steve Burke said at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications &...

The London 2012 Olympic Stadium as it looked earlier this month. (Associated Press / Kirsty Wigglesworth) By Philip Hersh Tuesday marks two years to go to the July 27, 2012 opening of the London Summer Olympics. To the man running......