{"id":39286,"date":"2025-04-20T13:54:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T13:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/20\/don-mischer-famed-director-of-live-television-dies-at-85\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T13:54:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T13:54:50","slug":"don-mischer-famed-director-of-live-television-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/20\/don-mischer-famed-director-of-live-television-dies-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Mischer, famed director of live television, dies at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don Mischer, the television producer and director responsible for bringing some of the most iconic moments in live TV history into living rooms, has died at 85. Mischer brought viewers the Olympic Games, legendary Super Bowl halftime shows featuring Prince and Michael Jackson, in addition to major award shows, political conventions and inaugurations. NBC\u2019s Peter Alexander remembers a life well lived for Sunday TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Mischer, the television producer and director responsible for bringing some of the most iconic moments in live TV history into living rooms, has died at 85. Mischer brought viewers the Olympic Games, legendary Super Bowl halftime shows featuring Prince and Michael Jackson, in addition to major award shows, political conventions and inaugurations. NBC\u2019s Peter &#8230; <a title=\"Don Mischer, famed director of live television, dies at 85\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/20\/don-mischer-famed-director-of-live-television-dies-at-85\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Don Mischer, famed director of live television, dies at 85\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}