Schlosser wrote a memo in 1975 proposing a new variety show to be televised from NBC's Rockefeller Center with a different host each week.
The New York TimesBorn in New Jersey in 1926 and educated at Princeton University and Yale Law School, Schlosser began his career working on television projects in the field of corporate law in New York.
He joined the business affairs department of NBC Television Network in 1960, where he negotiated numerous programming contracts including an agreement for Johnny Carson to host. Schlosser climbed the executive ranks to become president of the television network, followed by the president of the company in 1974.
The following year, he wrote a memo proposing a new variety show to be televised live from NBC’s Rockefeller Center with a different host each week. According to the, Schlosser outlined in the memo: “Saturday night is an ideal time to launch a show like this.”, and followed a weekly formula. Chevy Chase and John Belushi starred in the first episode.
A few years later in 1978, Schlosser became executive vice president of NBC’s parent company, RCA and co-founded the A&E television network. Schlosser’s other positions included serving as chairman of the Museum of the Moving Image, which was established in 1988 in Queens.author Eric Schlosser, and former film and television exec Lynn Jacobson.
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