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Spring 2008

Mission StatementThe mission of the Broadcasters Foundation of America is to improve the quality of life and maintain the personal dignity of men and women in the radio and television broadcast profession who find themselves in acute need. The foundation reaches out across the country to identify and provide an anonymous safety net in cases of critical illness, advanced age, death of a spouse, accident and other serious misfortune.

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Volume 12 • Issue 1 • Spring 2008

On The Air

2008 Golden Mike

Page 3Table Of Contents2008 Golden Mike ....... 3-37

2008 Pioneer Awards ...40-48

2008 Offshore Weekend .................50-51

Taishoff Foundation Underwrites Annual Report ...............54

Message from the President ................55

2008 Ward L. Quall Pioneer Awards

Page 40

Ward L. Quaal

The 2007 Pioneer Awards

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2007 Celebrity GolfWee Burn Challenges

Record Field

The Darien Connecticut Club Praised Among The Very Best

“I’m so grateful to see so many friends here, so many people I’ve met and learned from. This is a special night for me, and it means a lot to share it with you. So thank you for coming.” Anne Sweeney, The Waldorf Astoria NYC February 25, 2008.

Broadcasters Foundation of America President Gordon Hastings, Anne Sweeney, Foundation Chair Phil Lombardo and Anne’s daughter Rosemary

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David Westin, Barbara Walters, Tom Bergeron,Anne SweeneyandSteve McPherson

Vanessa Williams


Phil Lombardo and Tom Bergeron

Charlie Gibson, Susan and Ray Cole with Barbara Walters

Bob Iger with a video salute to Anne

Stanley Hubbard and Anne

Richard and Ellen Levine with NBA Commissioner David Stern


“One of the things I admire most about my mom, is her determination to challenge herself -- and the people around her -- to break barriers, experiment, and think adventurously. I hope to take that same spirit with me throughout my own life.

So, congratulations, Mom on your award tonight. Thanks for letting me be part of it -- and for all the adventures and the lessons. You’re the best role model a daughter could possibly have.... but next time we get in a dune buggy, I’m driving.” - Rosemary Miller

Rosemary Miller (Anne’s daughter) from the podium

Hearst Corporation’s John Conomikes with Linda Lange and Gordon Hastings. Conomikes is a former Golden Mike Award honoree

News Corp’s Rupert Murdock salutes Anne


“It’s great to play the game; it’s greater to win the game; but it’s greatest to have a genuine love for the game”. Speaking on behalf of all ABC Affiliates, we admire the way Anne plays to win... but respect even more her love and passion for the business of broadcasting. Congratulations, Anne, on this wonderful and well-deserved recognition from the Broadcasters Foundation of America.” - Ray Cole

A toast from the Chairman of the ABC Affiliates Board Ray Cole

WBEB-Philadelphia owner and President Jerry Lee with Chuck Bolkcom of Vuze, Inc. and Dennis Wharton of the NAB

Fox Television’s Dennis Swanson and his wife Marlene

Kim and Phil Lombardo with Nancy Lombardo


“From time to time, we have breakfast together to discuss this and that. This and that includes talking about our children... my grown daughter... her much younger son and daughter. There is also Anne’s loving and supportive husband, Phil Miller. I don’t know how she balances her huge workload with family... but she does. Is she frazzled? I’ve never seen it. Does she get into her bathtub at the end of the day and scream? Only her husband would know for sure, but I am willing to bet she does not. To look at her this evening -- lovely and smiling -- is to see an extraordinary woman to whom all of us in the Disney world can point to with pride. She is our President, and all of our delegates vote ‘Aye.” - Barbara Walters

Tom Bergeron, Anne and Andrea Wong of Lifetime Television

Fisher Broadcasting President Colleen Brown

Barbara Walters


Retired ABC Television Network President Jim Duffy

and Julie Blake

Jack Sander, Wade Hargrove and John Conomikes

Phil Lombardo and Anne

Martha O’Brien of Martha O’Brien Style


Kim Lombardo with daughter in-law Nancy LombardoAnn and Jim Rosenfield with the Editorial Director of Hearst Magazines Ellen Levine

Dea Parez and Adina Pitt of the Cartoon Network

“Rebuilding a network schedule is a risky business even on a good day and Anne has been right there through all the ups and downs of the process -- her support made it possible for us to go from fourth to first so fast. She embraces change and encourages the risks required to make the huge leaps forward. She gets it.” - Steve McPherson.

Guest presenter ABC Television Entertainment

President Steve McPherson


Photos by Wendy

Moger-Bross

BMI’s Jose Gonzalez, Stuart Rosen, with the President of Sheridan Gospel Network Susan Davenport and BMI’s Michael Steinberg and Mike O’Neill

ESPN’s Herb Granath, Anne and Rich Ross

John Rouse of ABC Television

Whitney Media Chair Bill O’Shaughnessy and Gordon Hastings


News Corp’s Kristen Callahan, Leigha Salvo and Meggan Whiteman The Paley Center’s Pat Mitchell

Larry and Mima Loeb of Hearst Corporation and Grif Foxley of ABC-Disney and Carole Foxley of Merrill Lynch

Dick and Ann Foreman with John Shaker

N.S. Beinstock’s Richard Leibner and Tom Bergeron



Your Help Literally Saves Lives

Broadcasters Foundation of America

BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA

A young life and young family devastated by Lou Gehrig’s disease.

This is a tragic story of a young woman and her husband in their late forties with two young children ages nine and eleven. Both enjoyed bright and positive careers in the broadcasting industry in New England. He began his career in 1978 and she in 1983.

Their life was on a wonderful track until 2005 when she was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Her condition rapidly deteriorated. Now forty-eight years old, she has controlled motion in only one finger, is fed intravenously, needs breathing support equipment, and is barely able to speak.

The family has liquidated all of their savings and home equity, and the husband has become his wife’s full-time caregiver with the sole responsibility for the children. There is no longer a source of employment income.

The Broadcasters Foundation of America continues to help this family face these tragic circumstances through both emergency grants and ongoing monthly support.

Your support of the Broadcasters Foundation of America is making a difference in the very survival of this family...

“Anne has and continues to give us every possible resource along with her personal encouragement and commitment to keep ABC news number one.” - David Westin, president ABC News.

Sherrie Westin and Vanessa Williams

Gordon and Lynn Hastings

Guest presenter

David Westin

Harris Corporation’s Ed Adams with his wife Tara


Anne with the President of The College of New Rochelle Dr. Stephen Sweeny. Anne is a graduate of the college.

Lorraine Lamb of HRP and Maury Wind of Telerep

Janice Garjian of TVB, Michael Spiesman of Katz Continental Television and Joe Tirinato of TVB

Phil Lombardo and Anne


Scott Seyedi , Pat Mitchell of the Paley Center, the Food Network’s Sandra Lee and E.W. Scripps President and CEO Ken Lowe

Katz Media Corporation’s CFO Bob Damon, Michael Hugger of Katz Television, Margaret Hughes of Westwood One and Katz TV’s Jim Beloyianis

The Chairman and CEO of Buckley Broadcasting Rick Buckley

BMI’s Del Bryant and his wife Carolyn with Anne

Phil Lombardo with the Golden

Mike Citation for Anne


Kerby Confer with one of his magnificent Carl Barks original paintings

Citadel Communications President Ray Cole with Barbara Walters and Vanessa Williams

Amy McGorry with Mom and Dad Bill and Phyllis McGorry

NBA Commissioner David Stern with Anne

Leo McCourtney of Disney-ABC with Suzanne and Phil Stolz


Photos by Wendy Moger-Bross

Albert Cheng, Lori Conkling, Janet Pyne, Ben Pine and Lifetime Television’s Andrea Wong

Charles Bergman, Jillian Schroeder and Jeff Ratner

Vanessa Williams and Gordon Hastings

Ray and Susan Cole with Anne

ABC-Disney’s Brad Jamison with Sheryl Arluck


Tom De Hass

Kevin Brockman of the Disney ABC TV Group

Carl Barks “The Money Pit”

Harris Corporations Ed and Tara Adams with Harris VP of Software Systems Harris Morris and his wife Jayne

Tom Bednarek, Rita Cosby and Fred Cannon of BMI


Joe Bilotta of Buckley Broadcasting

KnightStone Media’s Scott Knight with

Jessica Klekamp and Vanessa Williams

Kevin Brockman and Tom Bergeron

Broadcasting & Cable Publisher Larry Dunn, Michelle Jean-Pierre and Vuze’s Chuck Bolkcom

Ernest Liebre of Cambridge Associates and Jim Beloyianis


Allison Smith of BMI with Gordon Hastings

George and Loree Reed of Media Services Group

Stan HubbardGrif and Carole Foxley


Anne’s parents Anne and Don Sweeney with Rosemary and Ann

Gordon Hastings with Marcellus Alexander of the NAB

Whitney Media Chairman Bill O’Shaughnessy, Mario Gabelli, Chris Dixon and Chris Marengi

Tammy Greenberg and Mary Bennett of the Radio Advertising Bureau


Kerby Confer and Nancy Lambert P.J. Bednarski, Sandy Freidman and Larry Dunn of Broadcasting & Cable

The Vice-Chair of ICBC Broadcast Holdings Skip Finley, BMI President & CEO Del Bryant with his wife Carolyn and Susan Davenport

Hearst-Argyle CEO David Barrett, Cobb-Corp’s Brian Cobb, Phil Lombardo and Scott Knight

Dick Foremen with Dr. Ann Hero Foreman

Suzanne Stolz


Peter Talbot of U.S.

Trust, Gina Costello of

UBS and Phil Lombardo

Ann Liguori, Stanley Hubbard, Anne, Heidi Hubbard and Rob Hubbard

Gordon and Anne “A great evening!”

Rosemary salutes Mom from the podium

Dave Davis of WABC-TV, Ray Cole and David Westin

Gordon and Phil


Barbara, Tom and Anne

David Westin, Barbara Walters, Sherrie Westin and Vanessa Williams

The Golden Mike production directors Jon Mikel Zeigler and Sheryl Arluck and Golden Mike Executive Producer David Glazer

The incomparable Golden Mike photo journalists Eric Walters, Wendy Moger Bross and Nick Gould

Connie Buckley


Photos by Wendy

Moger-Bross

David Barrett and Cathy BiancuzzoChristopher Knight and Jessica Klekamp

Jack Sander and Belo Sr. VP Television Kathy Clements

John Shaker

Rich Ross and Marcia Moger


Nancy Rosenfield

Anne and Ken Lowe

Telerep’s Jay Isabelle and John Dewan with Phil Lombardo

Pat Mitchell and her husband Scott Seyedi

Gordon Hastings and Sandra Lee


Broadcasters Foundation Director Dick Ferguson

David Barrett and Stan Moger

Brenna Sheenan Mayer and Dr. Stephen Sweeney from The College of New Rochelle

Vanessa!

Marty Franks, CBS, Inc.


Just Desserts!

Stan Hubbard with Heidi and Rob Hubbard

Stan and Marsha Moger

Scott Knight and Margaret Hughes

Hearst Argyle’s Emerson Colemanand Crystal Johns


Albert Cheng, Dea Parez and Rich Ross

Tom Bergeron, Anne and Andrea Wong of Lifetime Television

David and Sherrie Westin

Hearst’s Bruce Paisner with Anne and Ellen Levine

Scott Knight, Tim McCarthy of Disney Radio, Martha O’Brien, Jessica Klekamp and Christopher Knight

Fox TV’s Dennis Swanson


John Orlando and Marty Franks of CBS with Phil Lombardo

Cathy Biancuzzo and Suzanne StolzMarty Weisberg

Vanessa Williams and Rita Cosby

Andrea Wong and Gordon Hastings


Margaret Hughes and Broadcasters Foundation of

America Publicist Ted Faraone

Michelle Jean Pierre

Phil Lombardo and Sandra Lee

Phil Stolz

Bill McGorry, Stan Moger, Herb Granath, Dennis Swanson and Bill O’Shaughnessy


Phil Lombardo and Tom Bergeron

NAB President David Rehr, Gordon Hastings and NAB Executive Vice President for Television Marcellus Alexander

Heidi Hubbard

Vanessa and Tom De Hass

From all of these served by the Broadcasters Foundation of America, thank you and goodnight.


Ward L. Quaal


Broadcasters Foundation Of AmericaPioneer Awards

To Be Named In Honor Of Ward L. Quaal

Dedication Underwritten By Benefactions FromThe Hubbard Broadcasting FoundationThe Mccormick Tribune Foundation

Broadcasters Foundation Of AmericaPioneer AwardsTo Be Named In Honor Of Ward L. QuaalDedication Underwritten By Benefactions FromThe Hubbard Broadcasting FoundationThe McCormick Tribune Foundation

The 2008 Ward L. Quaal PioneersLarry Bentson, Ed Christian, “Doc Fuller”, Stan Hubbard, Cousin Brucie, Tom Oakley

The Broadcasters Foundation of America Pioneer Awards, presented annually at the foundation’s Broadcast Pioneers Breakfast, will be named the Ward L. Quaal Broadcast Pioneer Awards, it was announced by foundation Chairman Philip J. Lombardo and President Gordon Hastings together with Stanley S. Hubbard chair of Hubbard Broadcasting and Dennis FitzSimons, chairman of the McCormick Tribune Foundation.

The awards will be dedicated in Ward Quaal’s honor at the annual Broadcasters Foundation of America Pioneers Breakfast to be held on Wednesday, April 16 at The Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The annual event takes place during the NAB Convention.

“I am humbled by this great honor,” said Ward Quaal. “My association with the Hubbard’s and Tribune together with my personal long-standing commitment to the noble work of the Broadcasters Foundation of America makes this announcement a heartwarming experience for me and my family.”

The naming of the Ward L. Quaal Pioneer Awards has been made possible by generous grants to the Broadcasters Foundation of America Endowment Fund from The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation and the McCormick Tribune Foundation. The endowment is used exclusively in support of the foundation’s mission of providing financial assistance to radio and television broadcasters who are in acute personal financial need.

“Ward is truly the dean of American broadcasting. He has been a friend and colleague of the Hubbard family since the founding of Hubbard Broadcasting by my father,” said Stanley S. Hubbard, chair. Hubbard added, “Ward has been a guiding light through a history of the great opportunities and issues encountered by our industry. He has established standards of excellence in every phase of broadcasting. Ward is a true pioneer and a man of great personal character, wisdom and charm. It is most fitting and appropriate that the Broadcast Pioneer Awards be named in his honor.”

“Ward Quaal is WGN,” said Dennis FitzSimons, chair of the McCormick Tribune Foundation. “Under his leadership and development WGN became Chicago’s ‘very own’ and the person who made that happen was Ward Quaal. The naming of the Ward L. Quaal Pioneer Awards is an appropriate recognition of not only a great broadcaster but also a great American. The McCormick Tribune Foundation is proud of our decade’s long relationship with this great broadcaster, innovator, statesman and diplomat.”

“The Broadcasters Foundation of America has attained the level of service that it enjoys today in great part because of Ward Quaal’s long tenure as a past director and chairman,” said current foundation Chairman Phil Lombardo. “The naming of the Broadcast Pioneer Awards in Ward’s honor will bring to future recipients the great prestige that comes with his astonishing record of contributions to broadcasting. We are also most grateful to The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation and The McCormick Tribune Foundation,” said Lombardo.“Above all that he has accomplished in his professional career Ward has always maintained his passion for recognizing people as individuals,” said Broadcasters Foundation President Gordon Hastings.


“He has never forgotten that ours is a community of unique personalities, talents, and aspirations. Ward always enthusiastically embraces those attributes in everyone with whom he is associated.”

Ward Quaal served on the board of directors of the Broadcast Pioneers from 1962-1973 which was the forerunner of the Broadcasters Foundation of America. He was chair of the board of both organizations, most recently from 1994-1997. He retired as a director in 2003.

Ward L. Quaal is the retired president of WGN Continental Broadcasting (now Tribune Broadcasting). He developed both WGN Radio and WGN Television into iconoclastic status in the broadcasting industry. WGN-TV, under Quaal’s leadership, became the first dominant independent television station in America.

The awards and honors bestowed upon Ward Quaal span six decades. He has served four U.S. Presidents, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and Reagan in various capacities. He served on the original Federal Communications Commission Advisory Panel on Advanced Television Systems (HDTV). He is a recipient of the NAB’s Distinguished Service Award.

Ward Quaal is a native of Ishpeming, Michigan and a 1941 graduate of the University of Michigan. He joined WGN on the day following his graduation from college.

His first radio position was as a high school student at WDMJ in Marquette, Michigan. He served in the U.S. Navy as an officer from 1942-1945 before rejoining WGN in 1945.

Between 1949 and 1956, Quaal worked with Clear Channel Broadcasting Service in Washington and then became Crosley Broadcasting’s head of television and radio. He returned to WGN in 1956.

Quaal is married to the former Dorothy J. Graham. They reside in Winnetka, Illinois and have two children a son Graham and a daughter Jennifer Anne.

Larry BentsonLarry Bentson started in broadcasting while in grade school as a 12-year old actor on a children’s radio show in the Twin Cities. His compensation was $1.00 per show plus two five-cent streetcar tokens.

He has been continually involved in communications since 1939, starting at WMIN as a part time engineer and announcer. In 1943, upon graduation from the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota, he served three years in the Pacific Theatre as a Navy Seabee and ammunitions officer.

In 1946 Larry returned to the Twin Cities, married Nancy, moved to California for three years and in 1949 came back home to WMIN, a family owned radio station. In 1953, Larry built WMIN-TV, Channel 11, an ABC affiliate in the Twin Cities. He became one of the founding partners of what has become Midcontinent Media with Eddie Ruben and Joe L. Floyd, who owned theatres throughout Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota and Wisconsin.


Midcontinent built the first TV station in the State of South Dakota in Sioux Falls on Channel 11. Subsequently they acquired TV and radio stations in Madison, LaCrosse and Wausau, Wisconsin and built AM and FM radio stations in the Twin Cities, Des Moines, Iowa and Wichita, Kansas. Larry served on the board of the NAB and was President of the Minnesota Broadcasters.

In 1972, Midcontinent moved into the cable TV industry and is now the major cable provider for North and South Dakota, with video, Internet and telephone service to over 250,000 households. Along the way, Midcontinent acquired a theatre confection supply company in Phoenix, AZ; the Washington International Teleport, a satellite transmission/reception company in Washington, D.C.; developed a chain of video stores in North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa and started cellular phone service to the Twin Cities.

The Larry Bentson family has continually taken a leadership position in philanthropy for community and non-profit organizations, including the University of Minnesota, United Hospital of St. Paul, Mount Zion Temple, Walker Art Center and the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. They established a chair for the head of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School, and Fellowships in the Departments of Urology and Surgery.

In 2003 Larry and his late wife, Nancy, established a ten million dollar Endowment Fund awarding four-year scholarships to incoming freshmen to the University of Minnesota. Now there are 185 Bentson Scholars in school, and the first graduating class is scheduled for June 2008. The success of this scholarship program was recognized by the presentation of the 2007 University of Minnesota’s Regent’s Award to Larry.

Ed ChristianNative Detroiter Ed Christian worked his way through college and earned his bachelor’s degree in mass communications in 1973 at Wayne State University and his masters’ degree in management in 1981 from CMU. Ed’s calling was to a career in radio, which began in 1958, at age 14, and has not stopped since.

“To me radio was magic, it was mystical,” he said. “I grew up in a time when I would listen to AM sky wave at night, and the power of it was awesome.” His first job as a young teen was running the control board at several FM radio stations in Detroit. Then, while studying at Michigan State University, he worked as a radio reporter at several Lansing radio stations. In 1966, when he realized he had reached the top of his game as on-air talent, he moved into radio sales at WCAR-AM/FM, in Detroit.

In 1971, Ed joined the ranks of station ownership by collaborating in the purchase of WCER-AM/FM, in Charlotte, Michigan. In 1974 he was brought in as vice president and general manager to save


the floundering WNIC AM/FM in Detroit, which was in deep financial trouble. With $100,000 in cash to operate the station he cut staff, paid bills and changed the radio format to “Detroit’s Nicest Rock,” and within three months, the station was profitable again. In 1986 the then parent company of WNIC, Josephson Communications, decided to sell its radio division. Ed found a venture capital partner and bought eight radio stations in the group and Saga Communications was born. In addition, the company has been steadily acquiring broadcast properties ever since.

“For me, my life in this company is an ongoing adventure,” or a ‘saga,’” says Ed Christian, who today serves as chairman, president and chief executive officer of Saga Communications, Inc. In 1992, Saga went public and today Saga is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SGA. Saga owns or operates 87 radio stations, three state networks, two farm radio networks, and nine television stations in 26 markets across the United States. Saga has a philosophy that is clearly different from its competitors: keep radio local. “If you have compelling radio that serves your community, if you have great people, if you treat advertisers with respect, then profits will follow,” he said.

After 45 years in the business he loves, Ed has won many accolades. The broadcast publication Radio Ink has called Ed one of the most influential radio executives in the United States. Saga has been regularly elected to the highly selective Forbes’ list of the 200 Best Small Companies in America in 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2004.

Ed’s heritage is Icelandic and he serves as Honorary Consul of Iceland for Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. In this position, he promotes tourism, commerce and industry between Iceland and the U.S. He also serves on many local and national civic and professional boards and is a board member of St. John Hospital, the National Association of Broadcasters and the Michigan Association of Broadcasters.

Robert “Doc” Fuller Bob Fuller grew up on a small farm and early on decided that he would rather work seven days a week in radio than toiling in the fields and feeding the chickens. In 1957 at age 16, he signed on his hometown Newburyport, Massachusetts radio station, WNBP, on its first day of operation. Sixteen months later, he was the youngest DJ in Boston at WMEX.

After two years in the Army as a tank crewman at Fort Campbell, KY and working part-time at WDXN, Clarksville, Tennessee Bob became program director of WJAB, Portland, Maine, and then at Ralph Guild’s WLOB.

California called in 1967. Bob left Maine without a job and landed for the summer at KGO AM and TV. Guild had just bought KMAK in Fresno and soon Bob was selling time all day and hosting the 4-7PM show. After a stint selling for Dwight Case at KROY, Sacramento, Bob became National Sales Manager for Chuck Blore and Ken Draper’s Programming DB


based in Hollywood. While living in Los Angeles, Bob was a part time DJ at Gene Autry’s KMPC working alongside the great Gary Owens.

At age 12 he did operating statements for a group

of imaginary stations, at age 33, Bob decided it was

now or never if he was going to get into his lifelong

dream of ownership.

After a futile attempt to build a station in Fresno,

Bob and J.J Jeffrey (who was then at WLS, Chicago)

bought a struggling new station in Maine, WBLM ,

then WOKQ in New Hampshire, both have become

legendary.

Then, in the 1980’s, they added, Pueblo, Colorado,

Des Moines, Iowa and Sacramento, California and

several markets in northern California. At one time

in the 80’s Fuller-Jeffrey owned more stations in

California than anyone did. Over the years Bob has

owned over 35 stations including his hometown

station, WNBP, all starting with sixteen thousand

dollars of seed money and a lot of enthusiasm.

Bob sold the company in 1999. When his non-

compete ended recently he went back into business

with J.J Jeffrey in Portland where they own five

stations. He served on the Citadel Communications

Board of Directors.

Bob has served on the NRBA board and has been

named “Broadcaster of the Year” in New Hampshire

and was inducted into the “Hall of Fame” for the

Maine Association of Broadcasters. He served as a

trustee at St. Joseph’s College in Maine.

Bob and his wife, Linda split their time between Palm

Springs, California and Portland, Maine. Their son

William sees the positive side of radio’s future and

loves being involved in the business so much that he

will soon be off to RAB boot camp.

Stanley S. Hubbard Chairman of Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. and past

Chairman of U. S. Satellite Broadcasting, which

was sold to Hughes/DirecTV in May 1999, Stanley

S. Hubbard has followed in the family tradition

by being a true broadcast pioneer. For more than

80 years, Hubbard Broadcasting has stayed on the

industry’s cutting edge, pioneering innovations in

radio, television and satellite broadcasting.

Stan Hubbard’s industry accomplishments include

overseeing the building of the first successful UHF

television station in a VHF market; with others

in the Hubbard organization, creating the world’s

first satellite newsgathering organization; and

establishing U. S. Satellite Broadcasting (USSB).

U. S. Satellite Broadcasting was the original

licensee for high-powered Direct Broadcast Satellite

service in the United States; and USSB, together

with DIRECTV®, established the DSS® (Digital

Satellite System), the first high-powered digital


broadcast system in the world. Broadcasting & Cable

magazine has labeled Mr. Hubbard as “the father of

satellite broadcasting.”

Stanley Hubbard has served on important

government committees and commissions. He has

testified many times before Congress on industry

matters. Stan was a member of a Presidential

Advisory Council on the National Information

Infrastructure and Congressional Chairman Lionel

Van Deerlin’s Broadcast Advisory Committee to

the House Subcommittee on Communications. An

inductee in the first Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame,

Mr. Hubbard is also the recipient of the Satellite

Broadcasting Communications Association’s Arthur

C. Clarke Award and the National Association of

Broadcasters’ Distinguished Service Award—the

broadcasting industry’s highest award.

Hubbard Broadcasting owns 13 television and four

radio stations serving Minnesota, New Mexico, and

New York. HBI also owns a production company in

Florida.

Born in St. Paul, Mr. Hubbard is active in community

and broadcasting affairs, serving on a variety of boards

and committees. He and his wife, Karen Holmen

Hubbard, have 5 children and 14 grandchildren.

Bruce “Cousin Brucie” Morrow Brooklyn-born Bruce Morrow joined SIRIUS Satellite Radio in 2005 following the format change of the local oldies station in New York City where he had been one of the city’s most popular on-air hosts since 1984.

Brucie has been a mainstay of New York hit radio for more than 40 years and has remained one of its most

popular personalities. He has been a favorite on-air host on New York radio stations WINS, WABC-AM, and at WCBS-FM, which was the nation’s No.1 oldies station. It was at WINS where Bruce got his first professional break and where he gained his legendary nickname “Cousin Brucie.” The story goes that one night in 1959, an elderly woman found her way into the studio from which Morrow was broadcasting and asked him “Hey cousin, can you give me fifty cents?” Morrow complied and the endearing name “Cousin Brucie” was born.

In 1961, Morrow left WINS for a one-year stint in Miami radio. He returned to New York’s powerhouse WABC where he remained for 13 years. During that time, he was the weekly host and producer of the famous Palisades Park rock and roll concerts. In August 1965, Morrow and Ed Sullivan had the distinction of introducing the Beatles at their Shea Stadium debut in New York.

In 1974, he moved over to WNBC Radio and Television, and in 1977, Morrow and Bob Sillerman formed the Sillerman Morrow Broadcasting Group, a company that purchased and operated eight radio


stations and a major market television property. By 1984 the idea of “human radio” (as Bruce likes to call it), began to find its way back onto the airwaves. At this time, he began at WCBS FM and in 1987, the “Cuz” went national with his Cruisin’ America weekly series that aired for 6 years. Also in1987, he had a feature role in the film Dirty Dancing. He brought his fresh, friendly and energetic sounds to WCBS-FM’s weekly five-hour music special, Cousin Brucie’s Saturday Night Oldies Party and to Cousin Brucie’s Yearbook - both New York traditions until June 3, 2005, when WCBS-FM switched formats.

2007 saw the release of Bruce Morrow’s first book Doo Wop: The Music, The Times, The Era (Sterling). The book, already in its second printing, is a comprehensive history of the distinctive Doo Wop music genre in the 1950s.

Morrow has received many honors throughout his career, most notably his induction into the National Association of Broadcasters’ Radio Hall of Fame, the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, the Radio Hall of Fame (Chicago), and the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame (2006), and has been honored for his on-air work by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. In 1994, the city of New York honored Morrow when Mayor Rudolph Giuliani named West 52nd Street Cousin Brucie Way.

Tom OakleyThomas A. Oakley is the president and CEO of Quincy Newspapers, Inc., which owns and operates 12 television stations, two radio stations, two newspapers and a video production company.

He is the fourth generation of his family to be actively involved in the company, which he has served full-time for 54 years.

Tom Oakley began his employment with the company as a carrier boy for The Herald-Whig in

1943 and joined the company full time in 1954 after graduating from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He rejoined the company in 1957 after serving with the United States Air Force as a pilot in the Strategic Air Command.

He was named president and CEO of Quincy Newspapers Inc., the parent company, in 1969, after the death of his father, T.C. Oakley, who launched the company into radio and television. At that time, in 1969, QNI operated three properties – WGEM-TV, WGEM-AM-FM and The Herald-Whig, all in Quincy, Ill. The company expanded under his direction and now employs more than 1,100 people serving viewers, listeners and readers in 14 states.

QNI has been a leader in the introduction and use of broadcast technology. QNI started the first television station in Quincy in 1953, helped build the first cable television system in Quincy in 1963 and constructed a state-of-the-art operations center centralizing many functions of its properties.

Tom has been very active in the broadcast industry. He served on the Television Board of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and was Co-


Chairman of the NAB Congressional Relations Committee. He served on the NAB First Amendment Committee of which he was Chairman during 1990-91, was formerly a member of the NBC Affiliates Government Relations Committee, and a member of the Committee for Advanced Television Testing. He served on the Television Bureau of Advertising’s Board of Directors, having been Chairman of the Board in 1989 and 1990; he continues to serve on the Television Bureau of Advertising Board as an Ex-officio member. He served with the Joint Affiliate/Network Group during its inception, was Chairman of the Task Force on Newspaper and Broadcast Cross Ownership for the American Newspaper Publishers Association when the FCC adopted those rules in 1975, and served on the Telecommunications Committee.

He has been involved for many years in promoting regional economic development and transportation infrastructure across the Midwest in regions served by QNI broadcast properties. He played a leading role in bringing four national highway corridors through Northeast Missouri and West Central Illinois.

Tom has received the Chuck E. Sherman Television Leadership Award from The National Association of Broadcasters for lifelong leadership, community service and commitment to local television, and the Vincent Wasilewski Award from the Illinois Broadcasters Association for a lifetime of excellence in broadcasting,

Tom and his wife Anne are the parents of three children — Thomas C., deceased, Ralph Oakley and Mary Oakley Winters, who represent the fifth generation of the Oakley family to be actively involved with the company. Ralph Oakley is Vice President and COO of QNI and Mary Oakley Winters is Director of Newspaper Operations and New Media for QNI.

Persons wishing to attend the breakfast should call the Broadcasters Foundation of America office at 203-862-8577.

WednesdayApril 16, 2008

Seven O-Clock A.M.

The Bellagio HotelMonet One and TwoLas Vegas, Nevada


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A “Family” Off Shore WeekendKey Biscayne Ritz CarltonYou’re Invited!Sail America’s Cup Yacht Intrepid

Golf-Tennis And A Full Day Of Offshore Fishing

The 2008 Broadcasters Foundation of America Offshore Challenge has been transformed into a family weekend event May 2-4 at the Ritz Carlton Resort Hotel in Key Biscayne, Florida. The event is co-chaired by foundation directors Skip Finley, Larry Dunn and Rick Buckley. All proceeds benefit the mission of the foundation.

Golf, tennis and children’s activities have been added to encourage participants to make it a family weekend. A special discount spa package has also been arranged at the Ritz Carlton.

The Crandon Golf Course on Key Biscayne will host the golf event on Friday afternoon, May 2 beginning at one o-clock. The tennis round robin, chaired

by Mary Warfield will be played on both Friday afternoon and Saturday morning at the Ritz Carlton Tennis Complex. A children’s tennis clinic will also be held on Saturday followed by a tour of the Florida Maritime Museum and Aquarium.

Larry and Susan Patrick of Patrick Communications have donated a once in a lifetime opportunity to sail for an afternoon with four other couples aboard the 12 meter America’s Cup yacht Intrepid! Intrepid, magnificently restored, won the America’s cup in 1967 and 1970. Departure will be on a day of the winning bidder’s choice from Newport Rhode Island. The sail will be followed by dinner at the New York Yacht Club in Newport. This generous gift from the Patrick’s is a wonderful way for anyone to donate to the foundation. Silent bids may be made in writing to Gordon Hastings at the Broadcasters Foundation of America (203-862-8577) and will be submitted as part of the live auction at Key Biscayne on Saturday evening, May 3.

The actual fishing tournament with prizes in seven categories will depart aboard 15 charter fishing boats from the Crandon Marina in Key Biscayne at eight-o-clock in the morning. Return to port will be at three o’clock Saturday afternoon. The cocktail reception and awards dinner/barbecue will be held on the beach at the Ritz that evening. Departure will be on Sunday.

Sponsors of the family weekend are: Arbitron, Harris Optimal Solutions, BMI, GE Media and Commercial Finance Group, Carter Broadcasting, Broadcasting & Cable, ICBC Broadcast Holdings, Latham and Watkins, Westwood One, CAO International Cigars, Alta Communications and the NAB.

Persons interested in the few remaining positions in this event should call Gordon Hastings at 203-862-8577.



Your Help Literally Saves Lives


BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA

An all too familiar story.

The story of this elderly couple in their late 70s is all too typical of the cases that come to the attention of the Broadcasters Foundation of America. The husband had worked in television until his retirement some 13 years ago.

For several years, they managed to maintain their independence with social security, savings and part time work. Six years ago, the wife was diagnosed with a rare form of kidney cancer. The husband left his part time job and became his wife’s full-time caregiver. They struggled along quietly and independently with no family members able to offer support until all of their resources were completely exhausted.

This situation was brought to the attention of the foundation, which made an immediate emergency grant to keep them in their apartment. The foundation then placed them on a monthly grant which combined with Social Security allows them to meet their monthly living expenses, thus somewhat relieving the day to day financial pressure which they had faced quietly and alone.

Your support of the Broadcasters Foundation of America has placed you by this couple’s side with a helping hand...

Taishoff Family FoundationUnderwrites Broadcasters Foundation Of America Annual ReportHenceforth, the Taishoff Family Foundation will underwrite the publication and distribution of the Broadcasters Foundation Annual Report. The announcement was made by Rob and Laurie Taishoff of Annapolis, Maryland. Rob Taishoff is the grandson of Sol Taishoff the founder of Broadcasting Magazine. His father, Larry Taishoff was the publisher of the magazine for many years before being sold to Meredith Corporation.

Rob Taishoff and his wife Laurie in a joint statement said, “The Taishoff Family Foundation involvement with the Broadcasters Foundation of America is a wonderful way to honor my father and grandfather. The ethos of our foundation is about helping others and giving back to the community, and that is exactly the mission of the Broadcasters Foundation of America.”

It is also meaningful that we can support an annual publication which is distributed throughout the industry recognizing those who champion this noble cause. The Taishoff family believes that my grandfather and father would be very proud of this endeavor.

The next publication of the Broadcasters Foundation of America Annual Report will be released in late spring, 2008.

Laurie and Rob Taishoff

Underwritten by

The Taishoff Family Foundation


Message From The Presidenthe Broadcasters Foundation of America Golden Mike Award is the

signature awards evening for recognizing excellence in radio and television broadcasting. February’s tribune to Anne Sweeney embodied all of the elements that underscore the importance of this great tribune to American broadcasters.

The extraordinary Anne Sweeney story was told not by an editor, reporter or columnist but rather by her family and friends coming to the podium and sharing their insight into the person we had gathered to honor. The magic within the Waldorf Astoria Grand Ballroom on Monday evening, February 25th was preciously what the Golden Mike was created to foster.

I would be remiss if I did not recognize Tom Bergeron, Ray Cole, Tom DeHass, Steve McPherson, Barbara Walters, David Westin, Vanessa Williams and especially Anne’s daughter Rosemary Miller for their collective contribution in making the 2008 Golden Mike a very, very special occasion. Yes, the word magical, as captured by the photographs in this issue is most fitting. Heartfelt thanks to all who attended and supported the dinner is extended from the foundation board of directors on behalf of those served by our mission.

The Pioneers Breakfast is another unique occasion. It is our annual opportunity to thank hundreds of our friends and supporters from across the nation. It is not a fundraiser but rather an annual gathering of friends to whom we can say thank you.

This year the breakfast takes on a new and historic dimension, as the awards, which are presented annually, will become the Ward L. Quaal Pioneer Awards. Placing Ward Quaal’s professional and personal imprimatur on these awards takes the honor to an entirely new plateau.

The foundation is grateful to Stanley Hubbard and the Hubbard Foundation and to Dennis FitzSimons and the

McCormick Tribune Foundation for making this possible. I hope to welcome many of you personally at seven o’clock on the morning of Wednesday, April 16 at The Bellagio as we personally introduce the beloved Ward Quaal to hundreds of his friends, and present the inaugural six Ward L. Quaal Pioneer Award to Larry Bentson, Ed Christian, Bob Fuller, Stanley Hubbard, Bruce Morrow and Tom Oakley.

The Broadcasters Foundation of America is extremely proud of our new and most significant association with the Taishoff family and the Taishoff Family Foundation. Through their foundation, the Taishoff’s have underwritten the annual publication of the Broadcasters Foundation of America Annual Report. We are especially grateful to Rob and Laurie Taishoff for initiating this generous annual benefaction to our endowment fund. The Taishoff family, known for its generosity will now each year join with us in saluting all of those who support our mission through the publication of the annual report.

For the fourteenth year, the Broadcasters Foundation of America will conduct the NAB Charity Golf Tournament on Sunday, April 13 at the Bali Hai Golf Club. The tournament has become so popular it is always a sold out occasion and this year is no exception. Many of those who play have been with us since the very beginning in 1995 at the old Las Vegas National Golf Club. This will be our fifth year at Bali Hai. I would like to recognize Broadcasting & Cable Magazine, an organization that has been with us as a sponsor since the very beginning. We were pleased that four years ago New York Life Investment Management joined them as co-sponsor. Thank you Larry Dunn and Gary Faccenda.

A special salute is also in order for Harris Corporation, Redback Networks and Media Services Group for their corporate support of the tournament. Ed

Adams, Doug Willis and George Reed deserve our special thanks. Because of our sponsors, every dollar of the player fees from the tournament participants goes directly in support of our mission.

Earlier I referenced our annual report, which will be published this month. As you page through this publication and read the names of all who contributed in 2007 to our Endowment Fund and Angel Initiative bear in mind that both of these efforts established new record levels of contributions. Congratulations to our 2007 Endowment Chair Bill O’Shaughnessy and Angel Initiative Chair Stu Olds and to everyone who supported these critically important efforts.

If you like sunshine, boats and offshore fishing join us for the Offshore Family Weekend May 2-4 at the Ritz Carlton in Key Biscayne. This new event on our annual calendar is in keeping with our philosophy of doing the good work of the foundation and having fun and camaraderie at the same time. The same is true for our 2008 Celebrity Golf Tournament, which will be held at The Quaker Ridge Golf Club in Scarsdale, New York on September 15.

In closing, I wish to recognize the tremendous contribution made over the past five years by our Director of Finance and Grant Administrator Eleanor Matera. Eleanor has moved from the foundation to a new and exciting career opportunity. The good news is that she remains close by to consult with us on a regular basis. Although we all miss Eleanor, we wish her well and will always be grateful for her wonderful work on behalf of the foundation and our grant recipients.

I look forward to seeing many of you at our April events in Las Vegas.

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Broadcasters Foundation of America Board of Directors2007-2008

Philip J. LombardoChair

Stu OldsVice Chair

Gordon H. HastingsPresident

Edward F. McLaughlinChairman Emeritus

Joseph C. AmaturoThe Amaturo Family Foundation, Inc.

David J. BarrettPresident/CEO, Hearst-Argyle Television

Del R. BryantPresident/CEO, BMI

Richard D. BuckleyPresident/CEO,

Buckley Broadcasting Corp.

Gary R. ChapmanLIN TV Corp., ret.

Edward ChristianPresident/CEO, Saga Communications, Inc.

Larry DunnPublisher, Broadcasting & Cable

Erica FarberPublisher, Radio & Records

Richard FergusonCox Radio, ret.

Joseph M. FieldChairman, Entercom

Skip FinleyVice-Chairman,

ICBC Broadcast Holdings, Inc.

Andrew S. FisherPresident, Cox Television, Inc.

Richard A. ForemanPresident/CEO,

Richard A. Foreman Associates

Alan W. FrankPresident, Post Newsweek Stations, Inc.

Gary FriesRadio Advertising Bureau, ret.

Ralph GuildChairman, Interep

Wade Hargrove, Esq.Brooks Pierce McLendon

Humphrey & Leonard LLP

Thomas P. KanePresident/CEO,

CBS Television Station Group

Paul KarpowiczPresident/CEO,

Meredith Broadcasting Group

N. Scott KnightManaging Partner,

Connecticut School of Broadcasting

Jerry LeePresident, WBEB-FM

Jerry LevyPresident, JL Media Inc.

Stanley H. MogerPresident/CEO, SFM Entertainment

William G. MollChairman, Clear Channel Television

Deborah NorvilleInside Edition

William O’ShaughnessyChairman, WVOX/WVIP-Whitney Media

Diane Linen PowellChair

Des Plaines Publishing

Frances PrestonPast President & CEO, BMI

John ReardonPresident/CEO, Tribune Broadcasting

David RehrPresident/CEO,

Nat’l Assoc. of Broadcasters

Joseph ReillyPresident, NYS Broadcasters Association

Jeffrey H. SmulyanChairman/CEO, Emmis Communications

Peter H. SmythPresident/CEO, Greater Media, Inc.

George StephanopoulosChief Washington Correspondent

ABC News

Martin Eric Weisberg, Esq.Corporate Counsel

Phil Beuth CapCities-ABC, ret.

Chuck BolkcomVuze Incorporated

Nick VerbitskyChairman, United Stations Radio Networks

Board of Directors

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The Broadcasters Foundation of America Angel Initiative is entering its fourth year. We are delighted with the number of radio and television broadcasting companies that have made an annual commitment to the mission of the foundation by becoming a Corporate Angel.

The 2008 Angel corporate campaign is your company’s opportunity to join those already making an annual gift to help us insure that no call for help from a fellow broadcaster will go unanswered. The Angel Initiative is the way our industry can take care of its own people in their special time of need. It is all about “giving back.”

The number of requests for help made to the foundation is increasing dramatically. We have no way of accurately predicting what the future demand on our resources will be. The Angel Annual Corporate Giving Initiative is an essential element in our being able to provide critical assistance into the future.

We hope that we can count on you becoming an Angel in 2008. Contact Gordon Hastings at 203.862.8577 for further details.

On behalf of all of those whom we serve, thank you for your support.

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