Friends & Benefactors Banquet
Award Recipients

American Horizon Awardees Freedom of Speech Awardees
2007 Kenneth W. Lowe
President & CEO
E.W. Scripps
Presented by Pat Mitchell
2007 Tony Snow
Press Secretary
White House
Presented by Ann Compton
2006 Glenn A. Britt
President & CEO
Time Warner Cable
Presented by Decker Anstrom
2006 Sumner M. Redstone
Chairman
CBS Corporation & Viacom
Presented by Dan Glickman
2005 David J. Barrett
President & CEO
Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc.
Presented by Wade Hargrove
2005 Roger Ailes
Chairman & CEO
Fox News
Presented by Alan Frank
2004 Geraldine Laybourne
Chairman & CEO
Oxygen Media
Presented by Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy
2004 Bob Wright
Chairman & CEO
NBC Universal
Presented by Tim Russert
2003 Dennis FitzSimons
CEO
Tribune Company
Presented by Don Cornelius
2003 Brian Lamb
Chairman & CEO
C-SPAN
Presented by Dr. Michael Kelley
2002 Ralph Roberts
Chairman
Comcast
Presented by Charlie Rose
2002 James Kennedy
Chairman & CEO
Cox Enterprises
Presented by Ambassador Andrew Young
2001 Charles Dolan
Chairman
Cablevision Systems Corp.
Presented by The Honorable William Kennard
2001 Barbara Cochran
President
Radio-Television News Directors Assn.
Presented by Judy Woodruff
2000 Robert L. Johnson
Chairman & CEO
BET Holdings II
Presented by Chairman William Kennard
2000 Jeff Bezos
CEO
Amazon.com
Presented by Tom Brokaw
1999 Decker Anstrom
President & CEO
The Weather Channel
Presented by Judith McHale
1999 Comm. Michael K. Powell
Federal Communications Commission
Presented by The Honorable Harry Edwards
1998 Steve Case
Chairman & CEO
America Online, Inc.
Presented by Commissioner Susan Ness
1998 Robert Decherd
President & CEO
A.H. Belo Corporation
Presented by Leslie Moonves
1997 Edward O. Fritts
President & CEO
National Association of Broadcasters
Presented by Jack Valenti
1997 Richard M. Schmidt, Jr.
General Counsel, ASNE
Cohn and Marks
Presented by Geneva Overholser
1996 John S. Hendricks
Founder, Chairman & CEO
Discovery Communications, Inc.
Presented by James Billington, Librarian of Congress
1996 Sen. Patrick J. Leahy
U.S. Senate
Presented by John Perry Barlow of Electronic Frontier Foundation
1995 Rep. Jack M. Fields, Jr.
U.S. House of Representatives
1995 Donald V. West
Editor & Senior Vice President
Broadcasting & Cable Magazine
1994 Frank J. Biondi, Jr.
President & CEO
Viacom Inc.
Presented by Ivan Seidenberg, President of NYNEX
1994 Nadine Strossen
President
American Civil Liberties Union
1993 John Seigenthaler
Chairman
The Freedom Forum
1992 Richard E. Wiley
Senior Partner
Wiley Rein & Fielding