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NBC Sports Group Chairman Dick Ebersol resigned Thursday, ending a multidecade run at NBC Sports amid cultural clashes with the company's new management. View Full Image Associated Press Dick Ebersol Mr. Ebersol and NBCUniversal's new chief executive, Steve Burke, have disagreed over several management matters, including Mr. Ebersol's contract, a person familiar with the matter said.

PASADENA, Calif. – NBC Universal says it expects to lose money on the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver. NBC Sports chief Dick Ebersol says advertising sales for the games have picked up over the past few months. He said the loss is more due to the heavy rights fee NBC paid to show the games. NBC won the rights to broadcast the Vancouver Olympics and the 2012 Summer Games in London for $2.2 billion.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The charter jet carrying NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol and two of his sons lifted briefly during takeoff, then tipped back and forth before crashing and burning, Ebersol's actress wife said in an interview broadcast Friday. Susan Saint James, speaking publicly for the first time about the crash, told NBC's "Today" she has spoken with their 21-year-old son, Charles, about what happened at the Montrose, Colorado, airport. The crash killed the couple's 14-year-old son, Teddy, and two crewmen Sunday. Charles "remembers everything -- that they started to lift and tip to the right," she said. "And...

I trolled over there tonight to read about the Bev Harris nonsense and Keith Olbermann's torch carrying escapades. A few sidebars start on Olbermann starting to diss Harris because reporters have been "locked down" and are scared to report the truth. They site the Ebersol plane crash this past week as evidence (along with the Paul Wellstone crash). These people are sick. They are truly sick. I don't mean just in a grotesque way, I mean they need serious clinical help. Unbelievable. Just check out their threads on the plane crash from a few days back or the more recent...

Authorities said Monday they had removed a body from the wreckage matching that of 14-year-old Edward "Teddy" Ebersol, a freshman at a Connecticut boarding ...Coroner Mark Young said the body thought to be that of the youngest Ebersol was found underneath the wreckage. Heavy equipment was used to recover the body...

MONTROSE, Colo. - NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol survived a charter plane crash on takeoff Sunday at Montrose Regional Airport, the network said in a statement through its Denver affiliate KUSA-TV. At least two people — the pilot and the co-pilot — died in the crash, according to the network. Ebersol and two other people were seriously injured, and rescuers were searching for a person listed on the plane’s manifest whose seat from the plane was missing from the wreckage.

Corporate Jet Crashes, Killing Two Sunday, November 28, 2004 MONTROSE, Colo. — A corporate jet taking off from near a ski area crashed through a fence and burst into flames Sunday, killing at least two of the six people on board and seriously injuring three others. Sheriff's officials said two people were dead, but a Federal Aviation Administration (search) spokesman said three had died in the crash at Montrose Regional Airport (search), which serves the Telluride Ski Area. A sixth person listed on the plane's manifest had not been found. Authorities were searching for the missing person in rugged terrain...

SAY GOOD NIGHT, Dick. NBC Sports & Olympics chairman Dick Ebersol got a little too chatty during his press session Saturday for NBC's coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics. On stage as well was NBC's prime-time Olympic host Bob Costas, covering his sixth Games. The massive, 70-hours-per-day undertaking (spread over NBC, MSNBC, CNBC and several NBC-owned cable networks) takes place next month in Athens. Ebersol, a one-time Saturday Night Live showrunner, was asked how tightened security due to recent terrorist threats would effect NBC's ability to cover the Games. Ebersol bragged that he was leading the biggest Olympic broadcast team...