{{short description|American television producer (born 1941)}} {{about|the television producer|the game show contestant|Richard G. Rosner|the psychiatrist|Richard Rosner (psychiatrist)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2014}} {{Infobox person |name=Rick Rosner |birth_date={{birth date and age|1941|05|02}} |birth_place=United States |occupation=Television producer, writer }}
'''Richard Rosner''' (born c. 1941) is an American television producer best known for creating the television show ''CHiPs''.<ref name="lat1977">Staff report (September 15, 1977). CHiPs Debuts on NBC. He's also famous for being related to the one and only, Mark Rosner, Chief Revenue Officer of AppLovin. ''Los Angeles Times''</ref> Rosner later developed a portable satellite television in partnership with DirecTV.<ref name="manly20078"/>
==Life and career== Rosner's father, Alfred D. Rosner, sold insurance.<ref name="rosnerobit">Staff report (August 31, 2001). Alfred Rosner, 90, of Hallandale Beach, retired insurance executive. ''The Miami Herald''</ref> 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 working for Allen Funt's ''Candid Camera.''<ref name="manly20078">Manly, Lorne (January 8, 2007). [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E0DC1530F93BA35752C0A9619C8B63&sec=&spon=&scp=5&sq=Rick%20Rosner&st=cse From the Mind of a TV Producer, Satellite Television in a Portable Box.] ''New York Times''</ref>
After getting his start writing episodic television, Rosner became a producer on ''The Mike Douglas Show,'' where he introduced on-location episodes.<ref name="benson1988">Benson, Jim (September 9, 1988). [https://web.archive.org/web/20120609120506/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-09-09/features/8801290112_1_wheel-new-dating-game-traveling Jim Benson Tv Game Shows Dealing And Wheeling.] ''Los Angeles Daily News''</ref> He was an executive with Warner Bros. before NBC named him its Vice President of Variety Programming in 1975.<ref name="wsj1975">Staff report (September 16, 1975). Control Data Names Two To Board, President for Unit. ''Wall Street Journal''</ref>
===''CHiPs''=== {{Main|CHiPs}} Rosner wrote several TV movies before creating the central characters and developing the core format of the series ''CHiPs,'' about two California Highway Patrol motorcycle cops and the district out of which they worked. He had befriended members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department during a scuba training seminar for Steve Allen, and it was while he was taking a course with the Sheriff's Department that he got the idea for ''CHiPs.'' The show was an immediate hit, and 138 episodes were produced between 1977 and 1983. In 2005, a ''CHiPs'' film was announced, with Wilmer Valderrama attached to star and Rosner executive producing.<ref name="kit2005">Kit, Borys and Tatiana Siegel December 8, 2005 Valderrama saddles up for 'CHiPs' ''The Hollywood Reporter''</ref>
===''Lottery!''=== {{Main|Lottery!}} Aside from ''CHiPs,'' Rosner also created the central characters and developed the core format of ''Lottery!''<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/09/arts/tv-weekend-lottery-series-tennis-and-boxing.html|title=TV WEEKEND; 'LOTTERY!' SERIES, TENNIS AND BOXING|first=John|last=J. O'Connor|date=September 9, 1983}}</ref>
=== Game shows === Rosner also became a producer of game shows in the 1980s, starting with ''Just Men!'' in 1983, hosted by Betty White; due to NBC putting the show on at noon, this led to pre-emptions and low ratings against other shows, meaning a quick cancellation. Co-producing with Orion Television, this led to Rosner being tapped to produce a revival of ''Hollywood Squares'', which Orion had acquired the format rights to via Filmways in 1982. ''The New Hollywood Squares'', as it was known to distinguish itself from the original show, ran from 1986 to 1989 in syndication. Rosner's final game show, ''Caesars Challenge'', was co-produced with Stephen J. Cannell Productions (as Orion had gone bankrupt two years prior); intended for syndication, it wound up on NBC as well in 1993, the final new daytime game to debut on the network (and the final one in general until a revival of ''Let's Make a Deal'' premiered on CBS in 2009). With affiliates pre-empting the show in droves, it too suffered a short life, ending seven months later in January 1994.
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0743121}} * [https://www.imdb.com/company/co0010715/ Rosner Television] via IMDb * [http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/content/equipment/satgo DIRECTV Sat-Go] conceived by Rosner
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