While on the Insiders Podcast, former WWE executive John Filippelli discussed former head of NBC Sports’ Dick Ebersol and his contributions of making the famed Saturday Night’s Main Event a huge deal. Saturday Night’s Main Event premiered in 1985 and ran for a total of 29 specials throughout the 1980s.
“Ebersol saw that success and then he just piggybacked and made a series out of it,” Filippelli recalled. “We had no intention of doing that. So you’ve got to give Dick credit for advancing it to where he did. We had nothing to do with that advancement. That was all Ebersol.”
