Hal Uplinger Biography
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- Born Sept. 30, 1929
A 6'4" (1.93 m) guard from Long Island University, Uplinger spent the 1953โ54 NBA season with the Baltimore Bullets, scoring 86 points in 23 games.
He was the Northern League basketball player of the year at John Marshall High School, and an All-Los Angeles City player as well, going on to play for the National Championship Junior College team at Los Angeles City College before playing at L.I.U. for legendary coach Clair Bee. He is the only Marshall High School (opened in 1931) basketball player to ever play in the NBA.
He worked for CBS in Los Angeles and New York as the production manager at KCBS, then as sports producer for the CBS Television Network.
He produced the American side of Live Aid and was responsible for the international distribution of the 16-hour broadcast to 155 countries and raised $283.7 million for the Band Aid Trust. Uplinger produced many world wide TV broadcasts mainly using top musical talent promoting humanitarian themes.
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