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From Saturday night to Sunday night : my forty years of laughter, tears, and touchdowns in TV / Dick Ebersol.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.4.E26 A3 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ebersol, Dick, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television broadcasting--United States--Biography.
- Television broadcasting.
- Executives--United States--Biography.
- Executives.
- Ebersol, Dick.
- National Broadcasting Company--Biography.
- National Broadcasting Company.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
- Summary:
- "A memoir by the legendary television executive detailing his pioneering work on Saturday Night Live, Sunday Night Football, the Olympics, the NBA, music videos, late night, and more."--Amazon.
- Dropping out of college to join the crew of ABC's Wide World of Sports, Ebersol went on to create Saturday Night Live with Lorne Michaels, and later produced the show for four seasons. He partnered with Vince McMahon to bring professional wrestling to network TV, helped turn basketball into a global phenomenon on NBC Sports, and created NBC's Sunday Night Football. Here Ebersol shares behind-the-scenes stories while offering an insightful history and analysis of TV's evolution from broadcast to cable, and into the future. -- adapted from jacket
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Part One
- ch. 1 The Decision
- ch. 2 Adventure
- ch. 3 Tell Me a Story
- ch. 4 Wide Wide World
- ch. 5 Unfathomable
- ch. 6 Surprises
- Part Two
- ch. 7 A Whole New World
- ch. 8 NBC's Saturday Night
- ch. 9 Go West
- ch. 10 Live Again
- ch. 11 Eddie
- ch. 12 Susie
- ch. 13 Stars and Legends
- ch. 14 No Sleep
- Part Three
- ch. 15 Perfect Fit
- ch. 16 I Love This Game
- ch. 17 Olympic Dreams
- ch. 18 Gold Medal Deals
- ch. 19 Lighting the Flame
- ch. 20 Outside the Box
- ch. 21 Human Resources
- ch. 22 Adventures in Negotiation
- ch. 23 New Century, New Landscape
- ch. 24 The Games Go On
- Part Four
- ch. 25 Family
- ch. 26 Follow the Living
- ch. 27 Football Night in America
- ch. 28 Sunday Night Is Football Night
- ch. 29 Olympic Diplomacy
- ch. 30 Keeping America Awake
- ch. 31 Larger Than Life.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alec Harris & Carollina Song Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781982194468
- 1982194464
- OCLC:
- 1281585348
- Publisher Number:
- 99991896032
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