Library of American Broadcasting Honors ``First Fifty Giants of Broadcasting''.To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption Entertainment Editors/Business Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available A photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.092303/bb5 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2003 The Library of American Broadcasting honored the men and women who pioneered the first generation of radio and television at a luncheon, Sept. 18, in the Empire Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt New York. Honorees included Joan Ganz Cooney Joan Ganz Cooney (born November 30, 1929 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American businesswoman and television producer. She is one of the founders of the Children's Television Workshop (now known as Sesame Workshop), and the organization famous for the creation of the children's , "Sesame Street"; Walter Cronkite, CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. TV's pioneering broadcast journalist; Ragan Henry, a pioneer in the ownership of television and radio stations by African-Americans; Stanley S. Hubbard, a pioneer in direct broadcast satellite; Ward Quaal, pioneered independent broadcasting for the Chicago Tribune organization; and Frank Stanton, CBS-TV president for 26 years. Presenters included Loreen Goldenson Arbus, daughter of Leonard H. Goldenson; Bruce DuMont, son of Allen B. DuMont Allen Balcom DuMont (also spelled Du Mont) (January 29, 1901 – November 14, 1965) was an American scientist and inventor best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube in 1931 for use in television receivers. ; Eddie Fritts, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the National Association of Broadcasters; Tony Hope, son of Bob Hope; Gene Jankowski, former president and chairman of CBS Broadcast Group; Jerry Lee, president, WBEB-FM in Philadelphia; Tony Malara, former president, CBS affiliate relations; Sharon Percy Rockefeller, WETA-TV president and CEO; Shaun Sheehan, vice president, Tribune Company. The "First Fifty Giants of Broadcasting" honored were: Fred Allen, Edwin H. Armstrong, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Gertrude Berg, Edgar Bergen, Milton Berle, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca, Frank Conrad, Joan Ganz Cooney, Bill Cosby, Walter Cronkite, Bing Crosby, Powel Crosley Jr., Lee DeForest de·for·est tr.v. de·for·est·ed, de·for·est·ing, de·for·ests To cut down and clear away the trees or forests from. de·for , Allen B. DuMont, Philo Farnsworth, Pauline Frederick, Dorothy Fuldheim, Jackie Gleason, Arthur Godfrey, Leonard H. Goldenson, Freeman Gosden & Charles Correll (Amos'n'Andy), Jack Harris, Paul Harvey, Ragan Henry, Bob Hope, Stanley E. and Stanley S. Hubbard, Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, Jim & Marian Jordan (Fibber McGee & Molly), H. V. Kaltenborn, John Kluge, Guglielmo Marconi, Donald H. McGannon, Gordon McLendon, Tom Murphy, Edward R. Murrow Noun 1. Edward R. Murrow - United States broadcast journalist remembered for his reports from London during World War II (1908-1965) Edward Roscoe Murrow, Murrow , William S. Paley
William S. Paley (September 28, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois – October 26, 1990 in New York, New York) was the chief executive who built CBS from a small , Irna Phillips, Ward Quaal, J. Leonard Reinsch, David Sarnoff, Eric Sevareid, Frank Stanton, George Storer, Ed Sullivan, Sol Taishoff, Lowell Thomas and Vladimir Zworykin. About The Library of American Broadcasting The Library of American Broadcasting (LAB) was founded over 30 years ago as the Broadcast Pioneers Library in the basement of the National Association of Broadcasters (Washington, DC). It now occupies 25,000 square feet at the University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to:
The LAB embarks on its fourth decade already enriched by more than 1,000 oral histories of broadcast pioneers -- the most comprehensive collection of its kind -- along with more than 250,000 photographs donated from the Broadcasting & Cable magazine archives, and more than 10,000 books, 1,000 kinescopes and videotapes as well as 4,300 radio and television scripts. Already a resource for the ages, the LABF-University of Maryland partnership is dedicated to preserving the traditions, the visions and the very purpose of an industry and a medium whose product, by its nature, disappears into thin air. About The Library of American Broadcasting Foundation The Library of American Broadcasting Foundation (LABF LABF Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum (California) ) owns the collection and is committed to the care, growth and oversight of the library itself. Its mission is to provide the connection between the library and the broadcasting industry, to be its principal liaison with the real worlds of TV and radio, to assist the curators in their pursuit of collections, to conduct a program of oral histories and -- most importantly -- to provide a financial base for library operations. Note: A photo is available at URL: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.092303/bb5 |
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