Download Audiobook From Saturday Night to Sunday Night: My Forty Years of Laughter, Tears, and Touchdowns in TV by Dick Ebersol in English

From Saturday Night to Sunday Night: My Forty Years of Laughter, Tears, and Touchdowns in TV

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A memoir by the legendary tv government detailing his pioneering work on Saturday Evening Dwell, Sunday Evening Soccer, the Olympics, the NBA, music movies, late night time, and extra.Consider an essential second in stay TV during the last half-century. Dick Ebersol was probably concerned.Dropping out of school to affix the crew of ABC’s Vast World of Sports activities, Ebersol labored the Mexico Metropolis Olympics through the well-known protest by John Carlos and Tommie Smith in addition to the Munich Olympics through the tragic hostage standoff. He went on to cocreate Saturday Evening Dwell with Lorne Michaels and later produced the present for 4 seasons, serving to launch Eddie Murphy to stardom. After creating Friday Evening Movies and partnering with Vince McMahon to carry skilled wrestling to community TV, he subsequent took over NBC Sports activities, which helped flip basketball into a worldwide phenomenon and made historical past as the primary broadcaster to host the World Sequence, the Tremendous Bowl, the NBA Finals, and the Summer season Olympics in the identical yr; it was Ebersol who was answerable for Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic flame in Atlanta. Then, following a aircraft crash that took the lifetime of his fourteen-year-old son Teddy and practically killed him, he determinedly undertook maybe his best profession achievement: creating NBC’s Sunday Evening Soccer, nonetheless the #1 primetime present in America. The At this time Present’s headline-making internet hosting adjustments, the so-called “Late-Evening Wars,” O.J. Simpson’s Bronco chase—Ebersol had a front-row seat to all of it.From Saturday Evening to Sunday Evening is crammed with entertaining and illuminating tales that includes such boldface names as Billy Crystal, Michael Jordan, Invoice Clinton, Jay Leno, Peyton Manning, Michael Phelps and Larry David. (Ebersol even impressed the well-known Seinfeld episode by which George Costanza pretends he didn’t stop his job.) Greater than that, the e-book provides an insightful historical past and evaluation of TV’s evolution from broadcast to cable and past—a should hear for informal binge-watchers and small-screen aficionados alike.

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