Library of American Broadcasting Announces 2010 Giants of Broadcasting

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

The Library
of American Broadcasting has announced its 2010 class of Giants of
Broadcasting, who will be honored at a luncheon Oct. 6 in New York.

The newest
honorees are Dick Clark, Norman Corwin, Sam Donaldson, Eddie Fritts, Hal
Jackson, Art Linkletter, Rue McClanahan, Agnes Nixon, Daniel Schorr,
and Lesley Stahl.

Charles
Osgood hosts the event, which benefits the library's collection of oral
histories and programming archives. The library is housed at the
University of Maryland and headed by former B&C top
editor Don West.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.