AFTRA Announces First National Awards Gala; 60 Minutes Creator Don Hewitt to Receive Union's First `Aftra Lifetime Achievement Award'.Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2003 The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) is a performers' union that represents a wide variety of talent, including actors in radio and television, as well as radio and television announcers and newspersons, singers and recording artists (both royalty , now in its 65th year, has announced plans for a major awards gala to benefit two of its non-profit organizations, the AFTRA AFTRA American Federation of Television & Radio Artists Foundation and the AFTRA/Heller Memorial Foundation to be held Monday evening, May 12 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . "We are delighted to announce now that the highlight of the evening will be the first AFTRA Lifetime Achievement Award, to be presented to 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt Don S. Hewitt (born Donald Hewitt, December 14 1922) is an American television news producer and executive, best known for creating 60 Minutes, the CBS news magazine in 1968, currently the longest-running prime time broadcast on American television. ," said John Connolly John Connolly is the name of:
The event will also honor the correspondents of CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. Network's 60 Minutes, each of whom will receive an AFTRA Award of Excellence in Broadcasting. Additional honorees for the AFTRA Excellence in Sound Recording and the AFTRA Excellence in Entertainment Awards will be announced in the next few weeks, as well as other luminaries associated with the event. The AFTRA/Heller Memorial Foundation is named for George Heller, a key founder of AFRA AFRA Atlantic Formula Racing Association (Canada) AFRA Alliance for Recovery Advocates AFRA American Family Rights Association AFRA Associazione Fabbricanti Ramo Abbigliamento AFRA Average Freight Rate Assessment and one of the creators of the AFTRA Pension and Welfare Funds (now known as the Health & Retirement Funds), the first in the largely freelance entertainment industry. The Memorial Foundation provides scholarships to AFTRA members and their families for academic excellence and financial need to a university, professional school or other accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. instituted of higher learning. These grants are offered for academic study in any field, including broadcast journalism and labor relations, or for professional training in the performing arts. The AFTRA Foundation administers the scholarships and also provides funds for other programming and research of value to the performer, journalist and artist members of the union. Don Hewitt is best known and most respected for the innovative 60 Minutes, the groundbreaking news broadcast he created in 1968. In his recent book, "Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television" (Public Affairs, April 2001), Hewitt chronicled his life as a newsman, from World War II correspondent to the beginning of television to the triumphs and controversies of 60 Minutes, the most-watched news broadcast in television history. 60 Minutes, which enters its 35th season this year, is the successful and much-copies copied prototype for the newsmagazine format which Hewitt is credited with creating. AFTRA is a diverse union representing 80,000 U.S. actors, broadcasters and other professionals in television, radio, sound recordings, commercials, non-broadcast/industrial programming and new technologies such as interactive programming and CD ROMs. |
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