TV Academy Honors Walters, Como, O’Connor

Celebrities Barbara Walters, Perry Como and Carroll O’Connor head the latest list of inductees into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame.

Also chosen for the hall were network executive Roone Arledge, Children’s Television Workshop co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney, and Don Hewitt, a former producer of “The CBS Evening News.”

Dance master Fred Astaire was chosen for posthumous induction.

The seven will be inducted during Jan. 7 ceremonies at the 20th Century Fox studios. The event will be broadcast as a two-hour special Jan. 24 on the Fox network.

O’Connor, an Emmy winner as Archie Bunker in the long-running “All in the Family” and “Archie Bunker’s Place,” stars in the series “In the Heat of the Night.”

Walters has hosted or co-hosted such shows as “Today,” “Not for Women Only,” “The ABC Evening News” and “20/20.”

Como was one of television’s most popular variety show hosts from the 1940s to the ‘60s.

Astaire, whose television work included a popular series of specials in the ‘50s and ‘60s, won three Emmys.

Arledge, group president of ABC News and Sports and president of ABC News, was involved in the creation of such programs as “The Wide World of Sports,” “Monday Night Football” and “Nightline.”

Hewitt, who produced and directed “The CBS Evening News” from 1948 to 1962, has been the producer for CBS’s popular “60 Minutes” since 1968.

Cooney, who co-founded the Children’s Television Workshop in 1968, is its chief executive officer.