President of NBC Sports since April 1989, Ebersol began his career in broadcasting with ABC, for whom he did research on the 1968 winter and summer Olympics. He later worked with Roone Arledge and helped develop sports programming for ABC, producing many NCAA college football telecasts as well as installments of the network's long-running "Wide World of Sports". He was also involved with ABC's successful broadcast of the 1972 Olympics in Munich.Moving to NBC in 1974, Ebersol achieved executive status at a healthy young age after coming up with "Saturday Night Live" with independent producer
milestones
Year
Milestone
Raised in Connecticut
Worked as gofer at ABC during high school
1967
Began career as researcher for ABC Sports coverage of the 1968 Winter and Summer Olympics (held in Grenoble, France and Mexico City, respectively)
1971
Became executive assistant to then ABC Sports president, Roone Arledge
Named director of all sports-program development for ABC Sports
