2009 Honor Roll of the Fifth Estate
Goodman Ace
David C. Adams
Chris
Albrecht
Roger
Ailes
Fred Allen
Gracie Allen
Steve Allen
Robert Alter
Earle C. Anthony
Roone Arledge
Edwin H. Armstrong
Gene Autry
Merlin Aylesworth
William Baker
Lucille Ball
Red Barber
Julius Barnathan
David
J. Barrett
Peter Barton
Ralph Baruch
Matthew
C. Blank
RichardBeaven
Frank
A. Bennack Jr.
Robert M. Bennett
Jack Benny
Candice Bergen
Edgar Bergen
Milton Berle
Jeff Bewkes
Carole Black
James Blackburn Sr.
John Blair
Martin Block
Michael
Bloomberg
LindaBell Blue
Steven Bochco
George Bodenheimer
William J. Bresnan
David Brinkley
Glenn
A. Britt
Tom Brokaw
Don
Browne
Dean Burch
Dan Burke
Stephen Burke
Mark
Burnett
George Burns
Raymond Burr
Eduardo Caballero
Sid Caesar
Louis G. Caldwell
Marcy Carsey
Johnny Carson
John Chancellor
Bill
Cella
Peter
Chernin
Dick Clark
Imogene Coca
Fred Coe
Betty
Cohen
Joseph Collins
Rocco
Commisso
Frank Conrad
William Conrad
Bob
Cook
Joan Ganz Cooney
Don Cornelius
Howard Cosell
Katie Couric
Walter Cronkite
Bing Crosby
Bill Daniels
Nicholas Davatzes
Lee de Forest
John DeWitt
Barry Diller
Charles Dolan
Phil Donahue
Sam Donaldson
James Dowdle
Hugh Downs
Allen B. DuMont
Jimmy Durante
Dick
Ebersol
Michael D. Eisner
Pat Esser
John Fetzer
Joseph A. Flaherty
Michael J. Fox
Brian
France
Arlene Francis
Tom Freston
Harry
Friedman
Fred Friendly
Edward O. Fritts
Michael Fuchs
John Gambling
Charles
Gibson
Jackie Gleason
Arthur Godfrey
Gary David Goldberg
Leonard Goldenson
Peter Goldmark
Mark Goodson
Irwin
Gotlieb
Katharine Graham
Kelsey Grammer
Herb
A. Granath
Peggy
Green
Merv Griffin
Ralph Guild
Bonnie
Hammer
Jack Harris
Mary Hart
Eddy Hartenstein
Paul Harvey
Carl Haverlin
Gabriel Heatter
John Hendricks
Ragan Henry
Jim Henson
Don Hewitt
John
M. Higgins
Ben Hoberman
C.E. Hooper
Bob Hope
Amos Hostetter
Harold Hough
Stanley E. Hubbard
Stanley S. Hubbard
Ward L. Huey Jr.
Catherine Hughes
Chet Huntley
Robert Hyland
Don Imus
Hal Jackson
Peter Jennings
Bob Johnson
Glenn Jones
Tom
Joyner
H.V. Kaltenborn
Mel Karmazin
Casey Kasem
Gene Katz
David E. Kelley
Phil
Kent
Larry King
Michael King
Roger King
Robert E. Kintner
John Kluge
Kay Koplovitz
Ted Koppel
Ernie Kovacs
Mario "Don Francisco" Kreutzberger
Charles Kuralt
Brian Lamb
Michael Landon
Matt
Lauer
Geraldine Laybourne
Norman Lear
Jerry Lee
Terry Lee
Bill Leonard
Sheldon Leonard
Gerald Levin
Fulton Lewis Jr.
Shari Lewis
Phillips H. Lord
Ken
Lowe
Susan
Lucci
Peter Lund
Frank Magid
Robert Magness
Martin Malarkey
John Malone
Nancy Marchand
Guglielmo Marconi
E.G. Marshall
Garry Marshall
Dean Martin
Al Masini
L. Lowry Mays
Don McGannon
Judy
McGrath
Judith McHale
Gordon McLendon
Paul
McTear
Lorne Michaels
Robert Miron
Pat
Mitchell
Leslie Moonves
Mary Tyler Moore
Akio Morita
Bruce Morrow
Steve
Mosko
Tom Murphy
Edward R. Murrow
Sheila Nevins
Agnes Nixon
Carroll O'Connor
Charles Osgood
William S. Paley
Harry
Pappas
Dick Parsons
Dennis Patrick
Jane Pauley
Lowell Paxson
Edward Petry
Regis Philbin
Irna Phillips
Robert W. Pittman
Frances Preston
William Lowell Putnam
Ward Quaal
James H. Quello
Gilda Radner
Jorge Ramos
Dan Rather
Abbe Raven
Gene Rayburn
Ronald Reagan
Sumner Redstone
J. Leonard Reinsch
John Rigas
James O. Robbins
Brian Roberts
Cokie Roberts
Ralph Roberts
Dick Robertson
Gene Roddenberry
JohnathanRodgers
Fred Rogers
Robert Rosencrans
Bob Ross
Elton Rule
Tim
Russert
Pat Sajak
Richard S. Salant
Lucie Salhany
Jack Sander
Joshua
Sapan
Cristina
Saralegui
David Sarnoff
Diane Sawyer
Bob Schieffer
Herbert S. Schlosser
Rod Serling
Eric Sevareid
William
Shatner
Bernard Shaw
Jean Shepherd
Dinah Shore
Frank Smith
Bill Smullin
Jeff Smulyan
Aaron Spelling
Lesley Stahl
Susan Stamberg
Frank Stanton
George Storer
Todd Storz
Howard Stringer
Ed Sullivan
David Susskind
Dennis
Swanson
Anne
Sweeney
Sol Taishoff
Brandon Tartikoff
Nancy
Tellem
Danny Thomas
Lowell Thomas
Marlo Thomas
Barry Thurston
Grant Tinker
Ted Turner
Joe
Uva
DavidVerklin
TonyVinciquerra
Mike Wallace
John Walson
Barbara Walters
Vincent T. Wasilewski
Lew Wasserman
Pat Weaver
Lawrence Welk
Orson Welles
Tom Werner
Margita White
Paul White
Richard E. Wiley
Michael
Willner
Oprah Winfrey
Dick Wolf
David Wolper
Robert C. Wright
Ted Yates
Frederic ZivJeffZucker
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