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Don Ohlmeyer in a television control center during a 1978 golf tournament.
Associated Press; thumbnail, Lisa Berg/NBC, 1998
Don Ohlmeyer
Died on September 10, 2017 at age 72
Mr. Ohlmeyer’s influential television career ranged from producing ABC’s “Monday Night Football” during its 1970s heyday to guiding NBC to No. 1 in prime time two decades later on the strength of programs like “Seinfeld” and “ER.”
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.