{"id":8635,"date":"2017-09-10T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8635"},"modified":"2017-09-12T13:03:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T20:03:54","slug":"don-ohlmeyer-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/10\/don-ohlmeyer-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Ohlmeyer Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/09\/donald-ohlmeyer-dies-nbc-west-coast-president-monday-night-football-1202166483\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from DEADLINE<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title entry-title desktop\">Don Ohlmeyer Dies: \u2018Monday Night Football\u2019 Producer, Former NBC West Coast President Was\u00a072<\/h1>\n<p>by <a class=\"name\" title=\"Posts by Dino-Ray Ramos\" href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/dinorayramos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">Dino-Ray Ramos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FueJb_gyPUE\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"auto-tag_don-ohlmeyer\" href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/don-ohlmeyer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-tag=\"don-ohlmeyer\">Don Ohlmeyer<\/a>, former NBC West Coast president and the man who transformed\u00a0<em><a id=\"auto-tag_monday-night-football\" href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/monday-night-football\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-tag=\"monday-night-football\">Monday Night Football<\/a> <\/em>into a pop culture phenomenon, died today at age 72. Sportscaster Al Michaels announced the news during the telecast of the Giants-Cowboys\u00a0game on NBC\u2019s S<em>unday Night Football<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Ohlmeyer was born in\u00a0New Orleans on February 3, 1945\u00a0and grew up in Chicago. He began his career with ABC Sports, working on\u00a0<em>Wide World Of Sports,\u00a0<\/em>and was the first producer of\u00a0<em>Monday Night Football.\u00a0<\/em>He also produced Olympics broadcasts.<\/p>\n<p>In 1977, he went to NBC where he worked as the executive producer of the network\u2019s sports division through 1982. He served as EP of NBC\u2019s coverage of the Super Bowl and World Series and created many series including\u00a0<em>SportsWorld, Games People Play,\u00a0<\/em>and produced the made-for-television movie\u00a0<em>The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story.\u00a0<\/em>He expanded sports coverage,\u00a0introduced innovative production techniques including a 1980 NFL telecast with no announcers.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/09\/donald-ohlmeyer-dies-nbc-west-coast-president-monday-night-football-1202166483\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at DEADLINE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from DEADLINE Don Ohlmeyer Dies: \u2018Monday Night Football\u2019 Producer, Former NBC West Coast President Was\u00a072 by Dino-Ray Ramos Don Ohlmeyer, former NBC West Coast president and the man who transformed\u00a0Monday Night Football into a pop culture phenomenon, died today at age 72. Sportscaster Al Michaels announced the news during the telecast of the Giants-Cowboys\u00a0game on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}