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Don Ohlmeyer

Don Ohlmeyer (born circa 1945) is an American television producer and former president of the NBC network's West Coast division. He began his work as the producer of ABC's Monday Night Football before moving to NBC, initially as executive producer of the network's sports division. It was Ohlymeyer who conceived the one-time experiment of airing a 1980 NFL telecast without announcers. During the 1997 World Series, Ohlmeyer disturbed Major League Baseball when he publicly wished the World Series to end in a four game sweep so that it wouldn't derail NBC's fall entertainment schedule. In 1997, "Weekend Update" host Norm MacDonald was fired from Saturday Night Live by Ohlmeyer, who said that MacDonald was simply "not funny". Some have speculated that MacDonald was fired because of his frequent jokes on the show about O. J. Simpson, who happens to be a good friend of Ohlmeyer's. Norm, however, left the show on good terms with Mr. Ohlmeyer one year later. It was also Ohlmeyer who initially pressured Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels to place Norm on Weekend Update. In response to Ohlmeyer firing MacDonald, David Letterman, during a taping of his CBS network television program The Late Show, referred to Ohlmeyer as "Happy Hour Don" (a reference to Ohlmeyer's problems with... Next

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