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Television Hall of Fame

Index Television Hall of Fame

The Television Academy Hall of Fame was founded by a former president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), John H. Mitchell (1921–1988), to honor individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to U.S. television. [1]

172 relations: Aaron Spelling, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Agnes Nixon, Al Michaels, Alan Alda, American Broadcasting Company, Andy Griffith, Angela Lansbury, Art Carney, Barbara Walters, Barry Diller, Bea Arthur, Betty White, Bill Moyers, Bill Todman, Bob Barker, Bob Hope, Bob Mackie, Bob Newhart, Bob Schieffer, Bob Stewart (television producer), Brandon Stoddard, Brandon Tartikoff, Bud Yorkin, Burr Tillstrom, California, Candice Bergen, Carl Reiner, Carol Burnett, Carroll O'Connor, CBS, Charles Kuralt, Charles Lisanby, Chet Huntley, Chevy Chase, Cloris Leachman, Dan Aykroyd, Dan Rather, Daniel Burke (executive), Danny Thomas, David Brinkley, David E. Kelley, David L. Wolper, David Sarnoff, David Susskind, Desi Arnaz, Diahann Carroll, Diane Sawyer, Dick Clark, Dick Van Dyke, ..., Dick Wolf, Dinah Shore, Don Francisco (television host), Don Hewitt, Don Pardo, Earle Hagen, Ed Asner, Ed Sullivan, Edgar Scherick, Edward R. Murrow, Eric Sevareid, Ernie Kovacs, Ethel Winant, Fox Broadcasting Company, Frank Stanton (executive), Fred Astaire, Fred Coe, Fred Rogers, Fred Silverman, Fred W. Friendly, Garrett Morris, Garry Marshall, Gene Roddenberry, George Burns, Gilda Radner, Gracie Allen, Grant Tinker, Harvey Korman, Herbert Brodkin, Howard Cosell, I Love Lucy, Jack Benny, Jack Webb, Jackie Gleason, Jacques Cousteau, James Burrows, James Garner, James L. Brooks, Jane Curtin, Jay Leno, Jean Stapleton, Jim Henson, Jim Lehrer, Jim McKay, Joan Ganz Cooney, Joan Rivers, John Belushi, John Chancellor, John Frankenheimer, John Wells (filmmaker), Johnny Carson, Jonathan Murray, Joseph Barbera, Joyce Hall, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Katie Couric, Laraine Newman, Larry Gelbart, Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Goldberg, Leonard Goldenson, Leslie Moonves, Lew Wasserman, List of halls and walks of fame, Lorne Michaels, Lucille Ball, Marcy Carsey, Mark Goodson, Mary Tyler Moore, Mary-Ellis Bunim, Merv Griffin, Michael Eisner, Michael Landon, Mike Wallace, Milton Berle, NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame, NBC, Norman Lear, Oprah Winfrey, Paddy Chayefsky, Perry Como, Peter Jennings, Phil Donahue, Philo Farnsworth, Quinn Martin, Ray Dolby, Red Skelton, Regis Philbin, Richard Levinson, Robert MacNeil, Rod Serling, Ron Howard, Roone Arledge, Rupert Murdoch, Sheldon Leonard, Sherman Hemsley, Sherwood Schwartz, Shonda Rhimes, Sid Caesar, Smothers Brothers, Steve Allen, Steven Bochco, Susan Harris, Sylvester Weaver (executive), Ted Koppel, Ted Turner, Television, Television in the United States, Thomas Murphy (broadcasting), Tim Conway, Tom Brokaw, Tom Freston, Tom Werner, United States, Vivian Vance, Walt Disney, Walter Cronkite, William Frawley, William Hanna, William Link, William S. Paley, William Shatner. Expand index (122 more) »

Aaron Spelling

Aaron Spelling (April 22, 1923 – June 23, 2006) was an American film and television producer.

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Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

The Television Academy, legally known as The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the television industry in the United States.

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Agnes Nixon

Agnes Nixon (née Eckhardt; December 10, 1922 – September 28, 2016) was an American television writer and producer.

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Al Michaels

Alan Richard Michaels (born November 12, 1944) is an American television sportscaster.

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Alan Alda

Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Andy Griffith

Andy Samuel Griffith (June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012) was an American actor, comedian, television producer, Southern gospel singer, and writer, whose career spanned seven decades of music and television.

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Angela Lansbury

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury, (born 16 October 1925) is an English-American-Irish actress who has appeared in theatre, television, and film, as well as a producer and singer.

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Art Carney

Arthur William Matthew "Art" Carney (November 4, 1918 – November 9, 2003) was an American actor in film, stage, television and radio.

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Barbara Walters

Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality.

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Barry Diller

Barry Charles Diller (born February 2, 1942) is an American businessman.

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Bea Arthur

Beatrice "Bea" Arthur (born Bernice Frankel; May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009) was an American actress, comedian, singer, Marine, and animal rights activist.

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Betty White

Betty Marion White Ludden (born January 17, 1922), known professionally as Betty White, is an American actress and comedian, with the longest television career of a female entertainer.

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Bill Moyers

Billy Don Moyers (born June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and political commentator.

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Bill Todman

William Selden "Bill" Todman (July 31, 1916 – July 29, 1979) was an American television producer and personality born in New York City.

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Bob Barker

Robert William Barker (born December 12, 1923) is an American former television game show host.

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Bob Hope

Sir Leslie Townes Hope, KBE, KC*SG, KSS (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) known professionally as Bob Hope, was an English-American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author.

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Bob Mackie

Robert Gordon Mackie (born March 24, 1940), known universally as Bob Mackie, is an American fashion designer and costumer, best known for his dressing of entertainment icons such as Joan Rivers, Cher, RuPaul, Barbara Eden, Bette Midler, Diana Ross, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Tina Turner, Carol Burnett and Mitzi Gaynor.

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Bob Newhart

George Robert Newhart (born September 5, 1929) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery.

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Bob Schieffer

Bob Lloyd Schieffer (born February 25, 1937) is an American television journalist.

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Bob Stewart (television producer)

Bob Stewart (born Isidore L. Steinberg; August 27, 1920 – May 4, 2012) was an American television game show producer.

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Brandon Stoddard

Brandon Stoddard (March 31, 1937 – December 22, 2014) was an American television executive.

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Brandon Tartikoff

Brandon Tartikoff (January 13, 1949 – August 27, 1997) was an American television executive who was the president of NBC from 1980 to 1991.

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Bud Yorkin

Alan David "Bud" Yorkin (February 22, 1926 – August 18, 2015) was an American film and television producer, director, writer, and actor.

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Burr Tillstrom

Franklin Burr Tillstrom (October 13, 1917 – December 6, 1985) was a puppeteer and the creator of Kukla, Fran and Ollie.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Candice Bergen

Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress and former fashion model.

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Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922)St.

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Carol Burnett

Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedian, singer and writer, whose career spans seven decades of television.

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Carroll O'Connor

John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001) was an American actor, producer, and director whose television career spanned four decades.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Charles Kuralt

Charles Bishop Kuralt (September 10, 1934 – July 4, 1997) was an American journalist.

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Charles Lisanby

Charles Alvin Lisanby (January 22, 1924 – August 23, 2013) was an American Production Designer who helped define scenic design in early color television.

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Chet Huntley

Chester Robert "Chet" Huntley (December 10, 1911 – March 20, 1974) was an American television newscaster, best known for co-anchoring NBC's evening news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, for 14 years beginning in 1956.

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Chevy Chase

Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an American actor, comedian and writer.

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Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman (born April 30, 1926) is an American actress and comedian.

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Dan Aykroyd

Daniel Edward Aykroyd (born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker.

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Dan Rather

Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. (born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He currently anchors a newscast called The News with Dan Rather at The Young Turks and was previously managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel AXS TV.

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Daniel Burke (executive)

Daniel Burke (February 4, 1929 – October 26, 2011) was an American television executive.

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Danny Thomas

Danny Thomas (born Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz; January 6, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an American nightclub comedian, singer, actor, and producer whose career spanned five decades.

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David Brinkley

David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.

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David E. Kelley

David Edward Kelley (born April 4, 1956) is an American television writer and producer, known as the creator of Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Boston Legal, Harry's Law, Big Little Lies, and Mr. Mercedes, as well as several films.

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David L. Wolper

David Lloyd Wolper (January 11, 1928 – August 10, 2010) was an American television and film producer, responsible for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, North & South, L.A. Confidential, and the blockbuster Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).

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David Sarnoff

David Sarnoff (Даві́д Сарно́ў, Дави́д Сарно́в, February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971) was an American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television.

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David Susskind

David Howard Susskind (December 19, 1920 – February 22, 1987) was an American producer of TV, movies, and stage plays and also a TV talk show host.

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Desi Arnaz

Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986), better known as Desi Arnaz or Desi Arnaz, Sr., was a Cuban-born American actor, musician, and television producer.

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Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll (born Carol Diahann Johnson, July 17, 1935) is an American television and stage actress, singer and model known for her performances in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones (1954) and Porgy and Bess (1959) as well as on Broadway.

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Diane Sawyer

Lila Diane Sawyer (born December 22, 1945) is an American television journalist.

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Dick Clark

Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting American Bandstand from 1957 to 1987.

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Dick Van Dyke

Richard Wayne Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, comedian, singer, dancer, writer, and producer.

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Dick Wolf

Richard Anthony Wolf (born December 20, 1946) is an American television producer, best known as the creator and executive producer of the ''Law & Order'' franchise, which since 1990 has included six police/courtroom dramas and four international spinoffs, as well as a creator and executive producer of the ''Chicago'' franchise, which since 2012 has included four Chicago-based police, courtroom, fire, and medical dramas.

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Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore (born Fannye Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality, and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1940s.

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Don Francisco (television host)

Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld (born December 28, 1940), better known by his stage name, Don Francisco, is a Chilean television host, and a popular personality on the Univision network reaching Spanish-speaking viewers in the United States.

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Don Hewitt

Donald Shepard "Don" Hewitt (December 14, 1922 – August 19, 2009) was an American television news producer and executive, best known for creating 60 Minutes, the CBS television news magazine, in 1968, which at the time of his death, was the longest-running prime-time broadcast on American television.

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Don Pardo

Dominick George "Don" Pardo (February 22, 1918 – August 18, 2014) was an American radio and television announcer whose career spanned more than seven decades.

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Earle Hagen

Earle Harry Hagen (July 9, 1919 – May 26, 2008) was an American composer who created music for movies and television.

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Ed Asner

Yitzhak Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929) is an American actor, activist, voice actor and a former president of the Screen Actors Guild.

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Ed Sullivan

Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan (September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was an American television personality, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.

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Edgar Scherick

Edgar J. Scherick (October 16, 1924 – December 2, 2002) was an American television executive and producer of television miniseries, made-for-television films, and theatrical motion pictures.

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Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.

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Eric Sevareid

Arnold Eric Sevareid (November 26, 1912 – July 9, 1992) was an American author and CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977.

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Ernie Kovacs

Ernest Edward "Ernie" Kovacs (January 23, 1919 – January 13, 1962) was an American comedian, actor, and writer.

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Ethel Winant

Ethel Wald Winant (August 5, 1922 — December 2, 2003) was the first woman executive in television when she became the vice-president of CBS in 1973.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company (often shortened to Fox and stylized as FOX) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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Frank Stanton (executive)

Frank Nicholas Stanton (March 20, 1908 – December 24, 2006) was an American broadcasting executive who served as the president of CBS between 1946 and 1971 and then as vice chairman until 1973.

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Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter.

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Fred Coe

Fred Coe (December 13, 1914 – April 29, 1979), nicknamed Pappy, was an American television producer and director most famous for The Goodyear Television Playhouse/The Philco Television Playhouse in 1948-1955 and Playhouse 90 from 1957 to 1959.

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Fred Rogers

Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003) was an American television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, producer, and Presbyterian minister.

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Fred Silverman

Fred Silverman (born September 13, 1937) is an American television executive and producer.

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Fred W. Friendly

Fred W. Friendly (born Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer, October 30, 1915 – March 3, 1998) was a president of CBS News and the creator, along with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now.

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Garrett Morris

Garrett Morris (born February 1, 1937) is an American comedian, actor, and singer.

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Garry Marshall

Garry Kent Marshall (November 13, 1934 – July 19, 2016) was an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor, best known for creating Happy Days and its various spin-offs, developing Neil Simon's 1965 play The Odd Couple for television, and directing Pretty Woman, Beaches, Runaway Bride, Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve, Mother's Day, The Princess Diaries, and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.

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Gene Roddenberry

Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter and producer.

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George Burns

George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum; January 20, 1896March 9, 1996) was an American comedian, actor, singer, and writer.

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Gilda Radner

Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American comedian, writer, actress, and one of seven original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL).

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Gracie Allen

Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen (July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964) was an American comedian who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns, her straight man.

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Grant Tinker

Grant Almerin Tinker (January 11, 1926 – November 28, 2016) was an American television executive who served as Chairman and CEO of NBC from 1981 to 1986.

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Harvey Korman

Harvey Herschel Korman (February 15, 1927May 29, 2008) was an American comedic actor who performed in television and film productions and was also a voice artist.

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Herbert Brodkin

Herbert Brodkin (November 9, 1912 – October 29, 1990) was an American producer and director of film and television.

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Howard Cosell

Howard William Cosell (born Howard William Cohen; March 25, 1918 – April 23, 1995) was an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality.

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I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy is a landmark American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley.

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Jack Benny

Jack Benny (born February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American comedian, vaudevillian, radio, television and film actor, and violinist.

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Jack Webb

John Randolph Webb (April 2, 1920 – December 23, 1982) was an American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sgt. Joe Friday in the ''Dragnet'' franchise (which he also created).

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Jackie Gleason

John Herbert Gleason (February 26, 1916June 24, 1987) was an American comedian, actor, writer, composer and conductor.

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Jacques Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water.

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James Burrows

James Edward Burrows (born December 30, 1940), sometimes known as Jim Burrows, is an American television director who has been working in television since the 1970s.

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James Garner

James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor, producer, and voice artist.

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James L. Brooks

James Lawrence Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an American television and film director, producer and screenwriter.

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Jane Curtin

Jane Therese Curtin (born September 6, 1947) is an American actress and comedian.

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Jay Leno

James Douglas Muir Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and television host.

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Jean Stapleton

Jean Stapleton (born Jeanne Murray; January 19, 1923 – May 31, 2013) was an American character actress of stage, television, and film.

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Jim Henson

James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, inventor, screenwriter, and filmmaker who achieved international fame as the creator of the Muppets.

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Jim Lehrer

James Charles "Jim" Lehrer (born May 19, 1934) is an American journalist and a novelist.

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Jim McKay

James Kenneth McManus (September 24, 1921 – June 7, 2008), better known by his professional name of Jim McKay, was an American television sports journalist.

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Joan Ganz Cooney

Joan Ganz Cooney (born Joan Ganz; November 30, 1929) is an American television producer.

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Joan Rivers

Joan Alexandra Molinsky (June 8, 1933 – September 4, 2014), known professionally as Joan Rivers, was an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and television host.

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John Belushi

John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, and singer.

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John Chancellor

John William Chancellor (July 14, 1927 – July 12, 1996) was an American journalist who spent most of his career with NBC News.

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John Frankenheimer

John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films.

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John Wells (filmmaker)

John Marcum Wells (born May 28, 1956) is an American theater, film and television producer, writer and director.

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Johnny Carson

John William Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer.

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Jonathan Murray

Jonathan Murray (born October 26, 1955) is an American television producer and co-creator of MTV's The Real World, Road Rules and The Challenge, and the Oxygen Network's Bad Girls Club.

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Joseph Barbera

Joseph Roland Barbera (March 24, 1911 – December 18, 2006) was an American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the 20th century.

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Joyce Hall

Joyce Clyde Hall (August 29, 1891 – October 29, 1982) was an American businessman and the founder of Hallmark Cards.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus (born January 13, 1961) is an American actress, comedian, and producer.

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Katie Couric

Katherine Anne Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American journalist and author.

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Laraine Newman

Laraine Newman (born March 2, 1952) is an American comedian, actress, voice artist, and writer who was part of the original cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live.

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Larry Gelbart

Larry Simon Gelbart (February 25, 1928 – September 11, 2009) was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter, director and author, most famous as a creator and producer of the television series M*A*S*H, and as co-writer of Broadway musicals City of Angels and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.

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Leonard Goldberg

Leonard J. Goldberg (born January 24, 1934, in New York City) is an American film and television producer.

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Leonard Goldenson

Leonard H. Goldenson (December 7, 1905 – December 27, 1999) was a president of the U.S. television and radio network ABC.

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Leslie Moonves

Leslie Roy "Les" Moonves (born October 6, 1949) is Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation.

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Lew Wasserman

Lewis Robert Wasserman (March 22, 1913 – June 3, 2002) was an American talent agent and studio executive, sometimes credited with creating and later taking apart the studio system in a career spanning more than six decades.

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List of halls and walks of fame

A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or animals, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their fame in their field.

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Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels (born Lorne David Lipowitz; November 17, 1944) is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, comedian, and actor, best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live, and producing the Late Night series (since 1993), The Kids in the Hall (from 1989 to 1995) and The Tonight Show (since 2014).

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Lucille Ball

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedian, model, film-studio executive, and producer.

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Marcy Carsey

Marcy Carsey (born Marcia Lee Peterson; November 21, 1944) is an American television producer.

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Mark Goodson

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Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore (December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017) was an American actress, known for her roles in the television sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a single woman working as a local news producer in Minneapolis, and The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966), in which she played Laura Petrie, a former dancer turned Westchester homemaker, wife and mother.

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Mary-Ellis Bunim

Mary-Ellis Bunim (July 9, 1946 – January 29, 2004) was an American television producer and co-creator of MTV's The Real World and Road Rules.

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Merv Griffin

Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr. (July 6, 1925 – August 12, 2007) was an American television host and media mogul.

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Michael Eisner

Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) is an American businessman.

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Michael Landon

Michael Landon (born Eugene Maurice Orowitz; October 31, 1936 – July 1, 1991) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer.

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Mike Wallace

Myron Leon "Mike" Wallace (May 9, 1918 – April 7, 2012) was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality.

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Milton Berle

Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American comedian and actor.

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NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Norman Lear

Norman Milton Lear (born July 27, 1922) is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude.

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Oprah Winfrey

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Paddy Chayefsky

Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky (January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981) was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist.

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Perry Como

Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18, 1913 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer and television personality.

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Peter Jennings

Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings (July 29, 1938August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American journalist who served as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight for 22 years from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005.

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Phil Donahue

Phillip John "Phil" Donahue (born December 21, 1935) is an American media personality, writer, film producer, and the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. The television program, also known as Donahue, was the first talk show format that included audience participation.

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Philo Farnsworth

Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer.

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Quinn Martin

Quinn Martin (May 22, 1922 – September 5, 1987) was an American television producer.

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Ray Dolby

Ray Milton Dolby (January 18, 1933 – September 12, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR.

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Red Skelton

Richard "Red" Skelton (July 18, 1913September 17, 1997) was an American comedy entertainer.

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Regis Philbin

Regis Francis Xavier Philbin (born August 25, 1931) is an American media personality, actor, and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s.

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Richard Levinson

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Robert MacNeil

Robert Breckenridge Ware "Robin" MacNeil, OC (born January 19, 1931) is a Canadian-American novelist, and retired television news anchor and journalist who partnered with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975.

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Rod Serling

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Ron Howard

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Roone Arledge

Roone Pinckney Arledge, Jr. (July 8, 1931 – December 5, 2002) was an American sports and news broadcasting executive who was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 and ABC News from 1977 until 1998, and a key part of the company's rise to competition with the two other main television networks, NBC and CBS, in the 1960s, '70s, '80s and '90s.

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Rupert Murdoch

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Sheldon Leonard

Sheldon Leonard Bershad (February 22, 1907 – January 11, 1997) was an American film and television actor, producer, director, and writer.

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Sherman Hemsley

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Sherwood Schwartz

Sherwood Charles Schwartz (November 14, 1916 – July 12, 2011) was an American television producer.

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Shonda Rhimes

Shonda Lynn Rhimes (born January 13, 1970) is an American television producer, screenwriter, and author.

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Sid Caesar

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Smothers Brothers

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Steve Allen

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Steven Bochco

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Susan Harris

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Sylvester Weaver (executive)

Sylvester Laflin Weaver Jr., (December 21, 1908 – March 15, 2002), known as Pat Weaver, was an American radio advertising executive, who became president of NBC between 1953 and 1955.

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Ted Koppel

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Ted Turner

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Television

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Television in the United States

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Thomas Murphy (broadcasting)

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Tim Conway

Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway (born December 15, 1933) is an American actor, writer, director, and comedian.

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Tom Brokaw

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Tom Freston

Thomas E. Freston (born November 22, 1945) is an American entertainment industry executive.

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Tom Werner

Thomas Charles Werner (born April 12, 1950) is an American television producer and businessman.

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United States

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Vivian Vance

Vivian Vance (born Vivian Roberta Jones; July 26, 1909 – August 17, 1979) was an American television and theater actress and singer.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.

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Walter Cronkite

Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981).

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William Frawley

William Clement Frawley (February 26, 1887 – March 3, 1966) was an American stage entertainer and screen and television actor best known for playing landlord Fred Mertz in the famous American television sitcom I Love Lucy and Bub in the television comedy series My Three Sons.

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William Hanna

William Denby Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001) was an American animator, director, producer, voice actor, cartoon artist, and musician whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of people for much of the 20th century.

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William Link

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William S. Paley

William Samuel Paley (September 28, 1901 – October 26, 1990) was the chief executive who built the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) from a small radio network into one of the foremost radio and television network operations in the United States.

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William Shatner

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Hall_of_Fame

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