Rick Rosner
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Rick Rosner
For other people named Richard Rosner, see Richard Rosner (disambiguation).
Richard "Rick" Rosner (born c. 1941) is an American television producer best known for creating the show CHiPs.[1] Rosner later developed a portable satellite television in partnership with DirecTV.[2]
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Life and career
Rosner's father Alfred D. Rosner sold insurance.[3] Rosner worked as an NBC page during college, and he returned to the job after dropping out of Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine after a few weeks. Soon he got a job as a television producer for Candid Camera.[2]
After getting his start writing episodic television, Rosner became a producer on The Mike Douglas Show, where he introduced on-location episodes.[4]
Rosner was an executive with Warner Bros. Inc. before being name Vice President, variety programs, for NBC in 1975[5] He wrote several TV movies before developing the series CHiPs. He had befriended members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department during a scuba training seminar for Steve Allen. While taking a course with the Sheriff's Department, he got the idea for CHiPs. The show was an immediate hit in 1977 and aired for 138 episodes through 1983. In 2005, a CHiPs film was announced, with Wilmer Valderrama attached and Rosner executive producing.[6]
Filmography
- Sky Heist
- 240-Robert
- Just Men!
- Lottery!
- CHiPs
- Caesar's Challenge
- The New Hollywood Squares
- Panic in the Skies!
- CHiPs '99
References
- ^ Staff report (September 15, 1977). CHiPs Debuts on NBC. Los Angeles Times
- ^ a b Manly, Lorne (January 8, 2007). From the Mind of a TV Producer, Satellite Television in a Portable Box. New York Times
- ^ Staff report (August 31, 2001). Alfred Rosner, 90, of Hallandale Beach, retired insurance executive. The Miami Herald
- ^ Benson, Jim (September 09, 1988). Jim Benson Tv Game Shows Dealing And Wheeling. Los Angeles Daily News
- ^ Staff report (September 16, 1975). Control Data Names Two To Board, President for Unit. Wall Street Journal
- ^ Kit, Borys and Tatiana Siegel Dec 8, 2005 Valderrama saddles up for 'CHiPs' The Hollywood Reporter
External links
- Rick Rosner at the Internet Movie Database
- Rosner Television via IMDb
- DIRECTV Sat-Go conceived by Rosner
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