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Jon Burlingame editor Dick Ebersol is one of the seminal figures in the past 50 years of broadcast television. He helped create “Saturday Night Live”; he hired Brandon Tartikoff, genius programmer and innovator, to revive NBC’s primetime fortunes. As president of NBC Sports, he oversaw the network’s Olympic strategy for many years. “Sunday Night Football” was his idea. Ebersol recounts the high (and sometimes low) points of his career in television in a new autobiography, “From Saturday Night to Sunday Night: My Forty Years of Laughter, Tears and Touchdowns in TV,” published this week by Simon & Schuster. While all of the great moments in his career were at NBC, Ebersol, now 75, started as a researcher at ABC Sports in 1967. Legendary ABC Sports chief Roone Arledge, Ebersol tells Variety, “was the most important figure in my life,” and the executive who eventually took on Ebersol as a trusted associate.

Tom Brokaw, the legendary newsman who spent more than five decades at NBC News, is opening up about his experience battling incurable cancer.In a preview of his upcoming interview with 's Jane Pauley, the 83-year-old says doctors didn't think he would make it to that age when he was first diagnosed with multiple myeloma a decade ago. Brokaw announced the diagnosis in February 2014.

Tom Brokaw has sat down with his former Today co-host Jane Pauley for an interview on the upcoming CBS News Sunday Morning, this time to give an update on his battle with blood cancer.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor NBC News stalwart Tom Brokaw is doing some of his deepest confessional talking this Sunday via CBS News. Brokaw talks to longtime friend Jane Pauley, who anchors “CBS News Sunday Morning,” and tells her about his battle with incurable blood cancer, which he has been fighting for a decade. He was diagnosed with multiple myeloma ten years ago. “I’ve had a bad experience,” Brokaw tells Pauley of his illness. “I kept thinking bad things wouldn’t happen to me. But as I grew older, I began to develop this condition. And what you try to do is control it as much as you can.” He says doctors did not think he would make it to his current age, 83 years. He says the disease forced him to walk away from NBC News, even as he enjoyed a sort of elder-statesman position there after his exit from anchoring “NBC Nightly News,” where he held forth from 1982 to 2004.

Andrew Freedman, the news and entertainment publicist who ran the New York-based Andrew E. Freedman Public Relations for more than three decades, died on February 8 following a cancer diagnosis last year. He was 67.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSUN VALLEY, Idaho — The Elon Musk watch is on.The first full day of Allen & Co.’s exclusive conference and retreat for the wealthy and well-connected concluded Wednesday at the luxe Sun Valley resort. Even among the assembled 1%-ers, there was anticipation for the arrival of the maverick leader of Tesla and SpaceX, who is expected to make an appearance at the annual meeting of moguls and C-suite titans.Following Tuesday’s many arrivals and some solo morning time, during which Verizon chief Hans Vestberg went for a run around the resort in the 6 a.m.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRichard C. Wald, a former president at NBC News and a senior vice president at ABC News who worked behind the scenes with Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley, Ted Koppel and Roone Arledge, died May 13 after suffering a stroke earlier in the month. He was 92.Wald was involved with the creation of “Nightline,” the signature ABC News late-night program that grew out of special coverage in 1979 on the taking of U.S.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 6-12:Feb. 6: Actor Mamie Van Doren is 91.

@MSNBC host, to leave NBC after nearly 3 decades. «The 11th Hour is way bigger than any one man or woman.

is returning to National Geographic with an all-new season dubbed.

Roger Mudd, the longtime CBS News correspondent and anchor who later teamed briefly with Tom Brokaw on NBC Nightly News, has died. He was 93.

EXCLUSIVE: Harry Hamlin (Mad Men, Shameless) and Dylan Baker (The Good Wife, Hunters) have joined the cast of The Hot Zone: Anthrax, the second installment of National Geographic’s scripted anthology series.

After 55 years with the network, Tom Brokaw is retiring from NBC News. Brokaw, who anchored NBC Nightly News from 1983 to 2004, had been working as a political analyst and contributor to NBC News programming after stepping down from the network's flagship evening newscast.

Over and out. Tom Brokaw announced his retirement on Friday, January 22, after more than half a decade with NBC News.

Tom Brokaw is saying goodbye.

NEW YORK -- NBC News veteran Tom Brokaw said Friday that he is retiring from the network after 55 years.Brokaw, author of “The Greatest Generation,” was NBC's lead anchor at “Nightly News” and for big events for more than 20 years before giving way to Brian Williams in 2004.The 80-year-old newsman did documentaries and made other appearances for the networks after that, but he has fought cancer and his television appearances have been more sporadic.He said he will continue to be active in print

Tom Brokaw has announced that he will be retiring from NBC News after spending 55 years at the network.

Tom Brokaw will retire from NBC News after 55 years with the network.

By Variety Staff

The new year began with a truly frightening start for Tom Brokaw and his wife, Meredith Lynn Auld, who were forced to flee their New York City apartment after the building caught fire Wednesday morning.

Safe and sound. Tom Brokaw and his wife, Meredith Lynn Auld, narrowly made it out of their New York City apartment building after a fire broke out on New Year’s Day.

U.S. newsman Tom Brokaw and his wife Meredith Lynn Auld were “very, very fortunate” to escape a New Year’s Day blaze in their New York apartment building.