TV & VIDEO - May 3, 1989

Edward R. Murrow, Bill Cosby, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Carroll O’Connor, Walter Cronkite, Barbara Walters, Howard Cosell and Ted Koppel have been named to the TV Hall of Fame formed by TV Guide to honor broadcast and entertainment stars on television’s 50th anniversary. The nine were selected by a four-member voting panel: Fred Friendly, former CBS News president; Elton Rule, former president and chief executive officer of ABC Inc. and now president of the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation; Fred Silverman, former NBC president who is now an executive producer, and producer David Wolper, who was responsible for such miniseries as “Roots” and “The Thorn Birds.” Receiving unanimous nominations were Murrow and Cosby. Honorable mentions for the TV Hall of Fame were Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin Luther King, Joseph Welch (the lawyer who denounced Sen. Joseph McCarthy), Mike Wallace, Bill Moyers, Steve Allen, Bob Hope, James Garner, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore.