10 for 10th:
Library of American Broadcasting
Giants
of Broadcasting Honoree's
Pictures by Blacktiemagazine/GMK
Awards went to Sir Howard Stringer, Ted
Turner, Norman Lear, George Beasley, Erica Farber, Robert
MacNeil & Jim Lehrer, Andy Rooney, Don Cornelius and Dinah
Shore
The National Library of American Broadcasting
10th Annual
GIANTS OF BROADCASTING
Honors
The event, attended by prominent members of the
broadcasting, media and corporate communities, serves as a
tribute to those individuals who have played pivotal roles
in creating and advancing the electronic arts. The
distinguished honorees join
140 Giants of
Broadcasting
who have been honored by the Library since 2003.
BILL BAKER, president emeritus of
WNET New York
and himself a Giant of Broadcasting,
served as master of ceremonies.
Honorees
Sir Howard Stringer,
Chairman of the Sony Corporation
Ted
Turner,
Media Mogul and Creator of CNN, TBS, TNT,
Philanthropist
Norman Lear
Writer- Producer of All In the family, Maude,
The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son and a number of
major hits
George Beasley
Chairman, CEO and Founder of Beasley Broadcast Group
Erica Farber
President and CEO of the Radio Advertising Bureau
Robert McNeil and Jim Lehrer,
Creators and Anchors of The MacNeil/Lehrer Report,
MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and PBS
NewsHour
Andy Rooney
of CBS" 60 Minutes
Don
Cornelius
Creator Host and Producer of nationally syndicated
Soul Train
Dinah Shore
Singer, Actress and Television Personality
Leslie Stahl
Correspondent, 60 Minutes and Face the Nation,
accepted the award on behalf of Andy Rooney
Tony Cornelius
Accepted the Award for his father, Don Cornelius
Dick Arlett
Producer of "Dinah and Friends",
Accept the award for Dinah Shore
Library of American Broadcasting
The
Library of American Broadcasting (LAB)
located at the University of Maryland
is entering its 41st year serving as the national
information resource for the radio and television industries
and the academic communities that rely upon it for depth and
expertise. Its collections of historic documents,
professional papers, oral and video histories, books and
photographs are among the nation’s most extensive. LAB is
evolving from a conventional library into a “homepage” for
the world at large, no longer confined to responding to
constituents one at a time but reaching thousands
simultaneously through the Internet. Industry outreach
includes lectures, symposia, print and
the broadcast media themselves.
LAB’s chair is Virginia Hubbard Morris,
president of Hubbard Radio, based in Minneapolis-St. Paul;
the president/CEO is Donald West, veteran broadcast
journalist and former assistant to the president of CBS
Inc.; the dean of libraries at the University of Maryland is
Patricia Steele, and the curator is Chuck Howell.
The Library has been honoring leaders in the
broadcasting industry annually since 2003 — its list of
Giants
now reaches to 150.
Previous honorees include industry founders Guglielmo Marconi, David
Sarnoff of RCA and NBC, William S. Paley and Frank Stanton
of CBS, Leonard Goldenson of ABC, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball,
Jack Benny, Philo Farnsworth, H. V. Kaltenborn, Edward R.
Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Arthur Godfrey, Paul Harvey,
Charlie Rose, Ken Burns, Johnny Carson, Katie Couric, Brian
Williams, Christiane Amanpour, Lowry Mays and Tim Russert.
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