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NBC Sports Group Adds Exec, CFO

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday September 12, 2011 @ 11:04am PDTTags: Mark Lazarus, NBC Sports Group

Mark Lazarus has bolstered his executive team at NBC Sports Group, hiring former ESPN executive Rob Simmelkjaer at SVP of NBC Sports Ventures, a unit that comprises NBC-owned businesses like the Alliance of Action Sports, the American Century Golf Championship, the ADT Golf Skills Challenge, the Heads Up Poker Championship and the National Dog Show. Simmelkjaer also will lead international business development at the sports group — drawing on his experience managing ESPN/Disney’s Olympics relationship as ESPN’s VP International Development and Corporate Projects — and he will also oversee its stake in Universal Sports. He reports to Gary Zenkel, president of NBC Olympics and EVP Strategic Partnerships at NBC Sports Group. Meanwhile, Lazarus also promoted Earl Marshall to CFO; he had been CFO of the NBC Sports Cable Group. He will have oversight of the NBC Sports Group consisting of NBC Sports, Olympics, Versus, Golf Channel, the 11 regional sports networks and digital assets and report to Lazarus.

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TCA: Comcast’s Versus Channel To Be Rebranded As NBC Sports Network

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 1, 2011 @ 1:05pm PDTTags: Comcast, Mark Lazarus, NBC Sports Network, NBCUniversal, VERSUS
Nellie Andreeva

Another name change post Comcast-NBCUniversal merger. At TCA’s press tour today, Mark Lazarus, Chairman of the NBC Sports Group, announced that sports channel Versus, previously owned by Comcast, was being re-branded as the NBC Sports Network beginning on … Read More »

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IOC: NBC Will Still Bid On Olympics Despite Departure Of Dick Ebersol

By PATRICK HIPES, Managing Editor | Thursday May 19, 2011 @ 5:13pm PDTTags: Brian Roberts, Comcast, Dick Ebersol, International Olympic Committee, Mark Lazarus, NBC, NBCUniversal, Olympics TV Rights, Steve Burke, U.S. Broadcast Rights

Good Riddance, NBC Sports’ Dick Ebersol

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said today that Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts and NBCUniversal bosses Steve Burke and Gary Zenkel have assured him that the resignation of NBC Sports & Olympics president Dick Ebersol does not alter NBC’s plan to bid on the next round of U.S. Olympic broadcast rights next month, a competition that is expected to include ABC/ESPN and Fox. Rogge told the Associated Press that the news of Ebersol’s departure was a “shock,” certainly in part because the move comes less than three weeks before the IOC opens bidding in Laussane, Switzerland, on deals for the 2014 and 2016 Olympics. It’s a process Ebersol has overseen countless times for NBC, which has broadcast every Summer Olympics since 1988 and every Winter Games since 2002. (In 2003, NBC won the current rights package with a $2.2 billion bid to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics — the network reportedly lost $200 million on that one — and the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics in London.) ”The three reiterated the full support of NBC/Comcast for the Olympic movement and the Olympic Games,” Rogge told AP. “They said they would come for the bidding. They … made it very clear that the resignation of Dick had absolutely nothing to do with the bidding.” Read More »

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Post-Merger NBC Sports Group Unveils Executive Team

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 2, 2011 @ 8:49am PSTTags: Comcast-NBCU Merger, Dick Ebersol, Golf Channel, Ken Schanzer, Mark Lazarus, NBC Sports, NBC Sports Group, NBC Universal, NBCUniversal, VERSUS
Nellie Andreeva

With Comcast’s acquisition of NBC Universal completed, the newly formed NBC Sports Group – which consists of NBC Sports, Golf Channel, VERSUS and 11 Comcast regional sports networks – this morning unveiled its executive structure under chairman Dick Ebersol. Turner veteran Mark Lazarus, who has long been rumored to take run the new group’s cable properties, is the only outsider on the team, while NBC Sports execs are being given the reins of Comcast’s Versus and Golf Channel. Here is a rundown of the new exec hierarchy: Read More »

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