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
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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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