Showing 1 - 4 of 4 articles tagged "Don Ohlmeyer"

• Posted Thursday 8/30/18 at 10:02PM EDT

  Norm Macdonald believes he was fired as SNL "Weekend Update" anchor because of his "experimental stuff" -- not for mocking O.J. Simpson

  Macdonald was famously fired by NBC executive Don Ohlmeyer, a friend of Simpson's, who overruled Lorne Michaels nearly 21 years...

• Posted Friday 9/15/17 at 10:40PM EDT

  Don Ohlmeyer thought he’d be remembered for putting on an NFL game without an announcers

  The former NBC executive, who died Sunday at age 72, thought experimenting with an announcer-less game would bring in ratings,...

• Posted Tuesday 9/12/17 at 3:42PM EDT

  Norm Macdonald tweets “RIP sir” in response to Don Ohlmeyer’s death

  Macdonald opted to take the high road, even though the former NBC executive got Macdonald booted off of SNL’s Weekend...

• Posted Monday 9/11/17 at 3:14PM EDT

  Don Ohlmeyer, the NBC exec who resurrected the Peacock’s primetime lineup in the early ‘90s, dies at 72

  When Ohlmeyer arrived as NBC West Coast president in 1993, he says “there was the smell of death” — despite Law...