ABC's Gio Benitez to Host NAB Foundation's Service to America Event

Gio Benitez of ABC News
Gio Benitez of ABC News (Image credit: ABC News)

The National Association of Broadcasters Leadership Foundation said ABC News correspondent Gio Benitez will host the 2023 Celebration of Service to America Awards in Washington, D.C., on June 6 at The Anthem. The ceremony honors broadcasters for their outstanding commitment to public service.  

Benitez co-anchors Good Morning America Saturday and Sunday and serves as ABC News’s transportation correspondent. Before ABC, he was a reporter and investigative producer at WFOR-TV in Miami. 

Musician Nelson Cade III will perform during the ceremony. He competed on NBC’s The Voice and was a finalist on John Legend’s team. 

NABLF previously announced station and broadcast group award winners, and said the Corporate Leadership Award will go to JP Morgan Chase.

For more information about the awards and event, visit servicetoamerica.org.

Kent Gibbons

Kent has been a journalist, writer and editor at Multichannel News since 1994 and with Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He is a good point of contact for anything editorial at the publications and for Nexttv.com. Before joining Multichannel News he had been a newspaper reporter with publications including The Washington Times, The Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal and North County News.