Donald T. Meier

(1915- ) lived at Oshkosh, Garden County, and in Lincoln. Educator, broadcast journalist, television producer, known for forming his independent production company which created, produced, and directed Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, a series on NBC-TV from 1963 to 1993, which became the longest-running half-hour program in television history, previously he worked for ten years at NBC in Chicago on such Peabody Award-winning shows as "Zoo Parade" and "Mr. Wizard"; recipient of Emmy Awards in 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, and four subsequent Emmy nominations, and John Grierson International Gold Medal Award in 1989 from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. Consult lengthy biography in Oshkosh Garden County News, August 26, 1982, p. 6 and UNL Journalism Alumni News, Fall 1995, pp. 12-15.

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