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Library of American Broadcasting
Foundation
Salutes its 2018 Giants of Broadcasting & Electronic Arts
Honorees
Awards Presentation Held at Annual
Luncheon Produced For the LABF by The International Radio &
Television Society Foundation
NEW YORK – November 13, 2018 – Ten distinguished
members of the media industry where honored today at the 16th
Annual Library of American Broadcasting Foundation’s GIANTS
OF BROADCASTING & ELECTRONIC ARTS awards ceremony.
The awards were presented during a luncheon
emceed by ABC News’ “Nightline” co-anchor Juju Chang with a
guest appearance by Kelly Ripa. The event was held at New York
City’s famed Gotham Hall. This event is produced annually for
the Library of American Broadcasting by the International Radio
and Television Society Foundation.
The LABF, a charity dedicated to preserving the
past, reflecting the present and informing the future, created
the Giants of Broadcasting celebration to honor the remarkable
creators, innovators, leaders, performers and journalists who
have brought the electronic arts to the prominence they occupy
in the United States and the world today, and who have set the
stage for the future.
Since the event’s inception in 2003, the LABF has
honored 220 leaders in the broadcasting industry. Proceeds from
the luncheon support the work of the Library of American
Broadcasting Foundation, which plays a vital role in growing,
preserving, and providing access to archives that represent the
most influential cultural force in the world. A portion of the
proceeds will also support the International Radio and
Television Society Foundation’s student training program and
diversity initiatives.
The 2018 Giants of Broadcasting and Electronic
Arts honorees are:
BILL ABBOTT
President & CEO
Crown Media Family Networks
JACK ABERNETHY
CEO
Fox Television Stations
ED ASNER
Award-Winning Actor
"Lou Grant", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show",
"Roots", "Rich Man, Poor Man", “UP”
ELIZABETH MURPHY BURNS
Owner and President
Morgan Murphy Media
JOHN DAVID
Senior Advisor
National Association of Broadcasters
DAVE LOUGEE
President & CEO
TEGNA
RYAN SEACREST
TV/Radio Host and Producer
Disney-ABC, iHeartMedia, NBCUniversal
BILL WHITAKER
Correspondent, "60 Minutes"
CBS News
PAULA ZAHN
Producer/Host, “On The Case with Paula Zahn”
Investigation Discovery
Posthumous Award
COMMANDER EUGENE F. MCDONALD, Jr.
Radio and Television Pioneer
Founder, Zenith Radio Corp.
(In Celebration of Zenith's 100th Anniversary!)
About the Library
of American Broadcasting:
The LAB is located at the University of Maryland
and has for more than forty years served 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.
About the International
Radio and Television Society Foundation:
The IRTS Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable
organization with programs and diversity initiatives that help
ensure that the business responsible for informing,
entertaining, and educating the public reaches its highest
potential in this exciting digital age. More than 8,500
competitively selected students and professors from colleges
across the nation have been beneficiaries of the IRTS
educational programs.
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