Who is Ebersol and why did his plane crash?

[notadmblnd]

Just got back up from doing load of laundry and story on CNN is Ebersol plane crash. anyone know what is up?

[Redleg]

1. I think he is a media dude.

I'm not sure.

[notadmblnd]

5. I just heard, he is NBC exec

just wondering if he pissed off the BFEE, He survived, pulled out by one of his sons. His 14 yr old who was strapped in his seat is gone.

[robcon]

2. His plane crashed because it barely got airborn on takeoff.

That's my understanding.

[Ian David]

6. Dick Ebersol is in charge of NBC Sports

Does anyone know which political parties he contributed to?


GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. Nov 29, 2004 — NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol and his college-age son emerged from the wreckage of a chartered jet after the plane crashed while taking off and killed two crew members. Rescuers were still searching for Ebersol's younger son, whose seat was missing from the smoldering ruins.

The 18-seat aircraft with six people on board crashed Sunday morning at Montrose Regional Airport in southwest Colorado, not far from the Telluride Ski Area. A heavy snowstorm had eased up before the plane prepared to take off for South Bend, Ind., where Ebersol's son Charles is a senior at the University of Notre Dame, but there was no immediate word if the weather was a factor in the crash.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=289463

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Head of NBC, Olympics, and husband of Susan St. James.

edit: NBC Sports, Olympics activist.

[elehhhhna]

4. i think that's ex-husband.

[Penguin31]

7. IIRC, They never finalized the divorce (n/t)

[RPM]

13. olympic activist?

Please explain....

[Midlodemocrat]

18. I couldn't think of a better word

...I was in the middle of several things. Here is a paragraph from cnn.com about his work with the Olympics.

Ebersol is best-known for his love affair with the Olympics. A protege of Olympics-coverage pioneer Roone Arledge, he worked as an ABC researcher at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games and carried on Arledge's philosophy of presenting the Olympics through storytelling, rather than emphasizing results.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/29/ebersol.crash.ap/index.html

[Penguin31]

8. Head of NBC Sports since 1989, Saturday Night Live EP from 81-85 (NT)

[critchmj]

9. He's the NBC sports executive.

He and his sons were on a ski trip on the western slope of Colorado and were flying out of the regional air strip at Montrose in a snow storm. I think they were in a corporate aircraft (NBC's?). The pilot and co-pilot were killed, Ebersol and his 22(?)year old son were in critical condition and they couldn't find his 14 year old son the last I heard.

Not to sound heartless, and I commiserate with the family, but I don't think it's of national importance when 2-3 of our kids are dying in Iraq daily.

[RPM]

10. with all due respect to his family... who cares?

A media exec (sports, nonetheless) crashes and its suddenly a discussion topic for LBN? C'mon - its a non-story. Besides, he's the idiot who shells over ungodly sums of $$$ for mediocre Notre Dame teams to monopolize NBC - he sucks

[Midlodemocrat]

11. But the 14 year old kid is missing

...that is the only reason I am following the story.

[SoCalDem]

19. and his wife Susan St. James is a very classy lady (and a Dem)

I feel very badly for them..and I just wish that wealthy people would bite the bullet (especially when they are with their kids) and fly commercial.. There are so many small-plane crashes because they value expediency over safety :(

[notadmblnd]

12. This isn't LBN its general discussion

and I was just wondering who he was. If it got your panties in a bunch, I apologize.

[RPM]

15. granted its not LBN - but it is a thread over there too

btw - my panties are fine.

If you want to know who he is, try google.

Bored senseless with Ebersol threads - BFD

[Midlodemocrat]

20. Then don't read them. n/t

[RPM]

14. Pregnant woman dead after crash....

Not really - making that up.... But seriously, how would the cults-of-the-holy-fetuses deal with that one? Would the airplane manufacturer possibly be on the hook for wrongful death?

[RivetJoint]

17. Well the mother died as well, right?

So yes...in your scenario.

[keithjx]

16. see...

Keith Olbermann's most recent blog...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

NEW YORK - It could’ve been a scene out of The Great Gatsby. Dick Ebersol, my new boss at NBC Sports, was going to explain to me my rookie’s role on the network’s upcoming telecasts of the 1997 World Series. But first he had to direct producer David Neal on a few details.

“No, no,” he said, without a touch of reproach to his voice. “The first pitch Saturday can’t be at 8:07, it has to be at 8:37.” His eyes focused further down the slip of paper in his hands. “And Sunday’s backwards, too. It should be at 8:07, not 8:37. I’ll tell Buddy.”

“Buddy” was Bud Selig, Commissioner of Major League Baseball, and what Dick was going to do, in that same even, smooth, FM voice of his, was tell Bud Selig that the starting times of all the World Series games were going to have to be altered.

It had never occurred to me that one man actually just did that, just as it had never occurred to Fitzgerald’s characters that one man might have fixed the 1919 World Series. And here I was, watching it happen in front of me with ease and grace.
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