Bob Costas Tapped for WFUV's Vin Scully Lifetime Achievement Award

NBC Sports, MLB Network veteran to receive honor at station's spring gala

By Brian Moran -- Broadcasting & Cable, 3/21/2013 9:15:32 AM

NBC Sports and MLB Network announcer Bob Costas will receive the Vin Scully Lifetime Achievement Award in sports broadcasting from WFUV radio on May 9 at the station's annual spring gala at Edison Ballroom in New York City.

Costas, winner of 24 Emmy awards, is the sixth recipient of the award. Scully, dean of baseball broadcasters and voice of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers since 1950, is a Fordham University alum and former staffer at WFUV, Fordham's National Public Radio outlet in New York.

Also being honored by WFUV at the gala is ABC News contributor (and former reporter and anchor) Sam Donaldson, who is receiving the Charles Osgood Lifetime Achievement Award in Broadcast Journalism.