Honor Roll of the Fifth Estate

(2006 recipients are noted in red)

Goodman Ace

David C. Adams

Chris Albrecht

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

Peter Barton

Ralph Baruch

Robert M. Bennett

Jack Benny

Candice Bergen

Edgar Bergen

Milton Berle

Jeff Bewkes

Carole Black

James Blackburn Sr.

John Blair

Martin Block

Michael Bloomberg

Steven Bochco

George Bodenheimer

William J. Bresnan

David Brinkley

Tom Brokaw

Dean Burch

Dan Burke

Stephen Burke

George Burns

Raymond Burr

Eduardo Caballero

Sid Caesar

Louis G. Caldwell

Marcy Carsey

Johnny Carson

John Chancellor

Peter Chernin

Dick Clark

Imogene Coca

Fred Coe

Betty Cohen

Joseph Collins

Frank Conrad

William Conrad

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

John Fetzer

Joseph A. Flaherty

Michael J. Fox

Arlene Francis

Tom Freston

Fred Friendly

Edward O. Fritts

Michael Fuchs

John Gambling

Jackie Gleason

Arthur Godfrey

Gary David Goldberg

Leonard Goldenson

Peter Goldmark

Mark Goodson

Irwin Gotlieb

Katharine Graham

Kelsey Grammer

Merv Griffin

Ralph Guild

Jack Harris

Mary Hart

Eddy Hartenstein

Paul Harvey

Carl Haverlin

Gabriel Heatter

John Hendricks

Ragan Henry

Jim Henson

Don Hewitt

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

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

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

Judith McHale

Gordon McLendon

Lorne Michaels

Robert Miron

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

Dan Rather

Gene Rayburn

Ronald Reagan

Sumner Redstone

J. Leonard Reinsch

John Rigas

James O. Robbins

Brian Roberts

Cokie Roberts

Ralph Roberts

Dick Robertson

Gene Roddenberry

Fred Rogers

Robert Rosencrans

Elton Rule

Tim Russert

Pat Sajak

Richard S. Salant

Lucie Salhany

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

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 Ziv

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