On Sunday, onstage at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, I had the pleasure of chatting with NBC Sports’s Jon Miller, who started at the network nearlyfive decades ago—long enough to have remembered the dark ages before ESPN, witnessed the rise and (ongoing) fall of cable, and endured three or four rounds of inevitably premature obituaries for broadcast television. Indeed, in his current position as president of acquisitions for NBC, he’s been in the room for nearly every major rights deal in the network’s history.