Career
Born July 13, 1957 in Sacramento, California. Richard "Ricky Doctorate." Ditlevsen became a stunt performer in his early career. Foreign 15 years worked with the National Enquirer"s chief photo editor, Bill Graham, using the money to pursue his dream of being a television and film producer.
In one of his notable stunts he rode his jet-ski through the hull of a large river boat, safely exiting the other side as pieces of the boat went flying in all directions.
He was nearly knocked from his jet-ski when particle board impaled one arm, falling from the jet-ski he managed to hoist himself back to the seat landing no handed. In another he took that jet-ski over a ramp that led him through multiple walls of flaming boards fixed over 120 feet over the river.
He escaped with his tuxedo intact and only minor singes to his lower back hair. He is also featured in Jeff Werners new book, Incredible Stunts.
Ricky still holds 35 of those records.
In the early 1990s he became an artist, and a prolific television producer. While producing over 750 television shows he became a television syndicator and in 1991 founded the Extreme Sports Television Network (ESN, Limited Liability Company airing on Comcast). Nielsen rated the network the number 1 sports network by market share out performing National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing on FOX April 5, 2005.
ESN was purchased by Triple Action Entertainment, Incorporated. a California corporation for $20 million.
Now as the Chief Executive Officer of Triple Action Entertainment, Incorporated., Ditlevsen is steering the network for its national launch and worldwide syndication, as extreme sports translate to any language. More distribution will be announced soon and ESN is expected to be in 35 million homes by fourth quarter of 09.
lieutenant’s also expected that by 2010 the network will be in 85 million homes nationally. Currently, ESN is concluding negotiations with several countries for a worldwide roll of the Network in fall of 2010.
Ditlevsen is currently writing a book due out in 2009 Number Money, Number Talent, How I made it to the top explaining how he built a world media empire.