Otakar Černý (10 September 1943 – 16 February 2021) was a Czech sports journalist and television presenter.

Biography

Černý graduated from

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with degrees in mathematics and physics and subsequently taught the two subjects at a vocational school in

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. In 1969, he began working for

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, which would become

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. From 1969 to 1989, he worked for the sports editorial office. although he refused to join the

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( Czech and Slovak: ''Komunistická strana Československa'', KSČ) was a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992. It was a member of the Com ...

. After the fall of

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, he moderated the television programs ''Debata'' and ''Co týden dal'', where he would rise to fame. After was removed as head of Česká televize, he left the company as well and became a spokesperson for the Czech Ministry of Health from 2000 to 2002. He was then editor-in-chief of ''Redakce sportu''. He also participated in the launching of the independent news channel,

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, and moderated the sports discussion show ''Na slovíčko'' from 2008 to 2013. He retired in March 2013. He also served on the Commission of Referees of the

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from 2003 to 2011. Otakar Černý died in February 2021, at the age of 77.

Publications

*''Co týden (ne)dal'' (1993) *''Díky, na viděnou!: vysoká politika očima televizního moderátora'' (1998) *''Brankám bylo padesát, aneb, Díky táto : Kladno, Praha a okolí 1969-2006'' (2007) *''Třikrát a dost'' (2013) *''Divadlo na Kladně'' (2018) *''Sport na Kladně'' (2020)

References

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