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Dec 17, 2018 · Watch Now. NBC History: Ebersol: SNF brought NFL to primetime. December 17, 2018 03:56 PM. Dick Ebersol explains how Sunday Night Football came about and why he believes the NBC remade the NFL in primetime. Stay in the Know. Subscribe to our Newsletter and Alerts.
Dick Ebersol explains how Sunday Night Football became his baby and why he believes the NBC remade the NFL in primetime.
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Rozelle convinced Wellington and Jack Mara (Giants), Dan Reeves (Rams) and George Halas (Bears) that a single contract covering all teams and splitting the revenues benefited everyone. That meant the Packers and Giants would be receiving equal shares, instead of the old deals where New York sometimes got as much as 10 times more than Green Bay. “We...
Another reason for the league becoming more popular in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s was NFL Films. With most of the highlights narrated by “The Voice of God” John Facenda, great cinematography and booming symphony music, Ed and Steve Sabol’s work made football players seem larger than life. It also made them human. “Football Follies” is one of the comp...
Rozelle started shopping a prime-time package of games on Monday night to networks in 1969. CBS and NBC turned him down due to the success of their shows, but Rozelle did have leverage with ABC, which was clearly the third-place network and was struggling in prime time. The network agreed to pay $25.5 million for three years. ABC Sports President R...
ESPN celebrates its 40th anniversary next month, but one of the seminal dates in the network’s history happened on March 15, 1987, when it won rights to the NFL’s first cable television contract. The network aired 13 games in each of the first three seasons — four preseason, eight Sunday night during the second half of the year and the Pro Bowl. Th...
Fox’s bid of $1.6 billion over four years for NFC games in December 1993, dramatically altered the sports and television landscape. Fox ushered in the one-hour pregame show and had an ethos that “football is entertainment”. Besides bringing a free-wheeling vibe to its coverage, it also added to the level of production with audio that brings viewers...
NBC did not have the NFL from 1998 to 2005, but it came back in 2006 with the “Sunday Night Football” package. It did mark a culture shift for the league because it now aired its significant prime-time game on Sunday instead of Monday. To make that work, NBC Sports president Dick Ebersol asked for flexible scheduling late in the season, so that the...
The Super Bowl milestone was made possible in 2005 when Ebersol spearheaded the effort to return the NFL to NBC by negotiating a six-year agreement that included moving the NFL primetime broadcast package from Monday night to Sunday night, flexible scheduling for the first time ever, and Super Bowls in 2009 and 2012.
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Jan 21, 2018 · When NBC Sports czar Dick Ebersol won the NFL's Sunday Night TV rights in 2006, he made sure Berman and Jackson's "Primetime" would not go up against his new "Football Night in America."...
Sep 20, 2022 · UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The National Transportation Safety Board is examining wreckage of a plane crash that killed the son of NBC Sports executive Dick Ebersol. The NTSB is still far from ...
