{"id":146096,"date":"2015-07-31T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=146096"},"modified":"2015-07-31T14:42:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T21:42:20","slug":"30mostswimfluential-dick-ebersol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/30mostswimfluential-dick-ebersol\/","title":{"rendered":"#30MostSwimfluential: Dick Ebersol"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Who is Dick Ebersol?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dropped out of Yale in 1968 to work for ABC&#8217;s Wide World of Sports, becoming their first ever Olympic researcher<\/li>\n<li>Began as chief aide to sports chief <strong>Roone Arledge<\/strong> from 1967-1974. \u201cSo much of shaping how I have done events \u2014 produced, promoted, and marketed events \u2014 all came from Roone,\u201d Ebersol said.<\/li>\n<li>At 28, he became the VP of late night programming at NBC. 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