Television Hall of Fame
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
Each year, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences inducts up to seven people or programs to the Television Hall of Fame. Here are the past inductees honored for their outstanding and lasting contribution to television.
16th
- Bob Barker
- Art Carney
- Katie Couric
- Dan Rather
- Brandon Tartikoff
- Charles Cappleman
15th
- Tim Conway and Harvey Korman
- John Frankenheimer
- Bob Mackie
- Jean Stapleton
- Bud Yorkin
14th
- Herb Brodkin
- MacNeil/Lehrer
- Lorne Michaels
- Carl Reiner
- Fred Rogers
- Fred Silverman
- Ethel Winant
13th
- James L. Brooks
- Garry Marshall
- Diane Sawyer
- Grant Tinker
- Quinn Martin
12th
- Ed Asner
- Angela Lansbury
- Aaron Spelling
- Lew Wasserman
- Marcy Carsey
- Tom Werner
- Charles Kuralt
- Steven Bochco
11th
- Michael Landon
- Richard Levinson and William Link
- Jim McKay
- Bill Moyers
- Dick Van Dyke
- Betty White
10th
- Alan Alda
- Howard Cosell
- Barry Diller
- Fred Friendly
- Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbera
- Oprah Winfrey
9th
- Dick Clark
- John Chancellor
- Phil Donahue
- Mark Goodson
- Bob Newhart
- Agnes Nixon
- Jack Webb
8th
- Bill Cosby
- Andy Griffith
- Ted Koppel
- Sheldon Leonard
- Dinah Shore
- Ted Turner
7th
- Desi Arnaz
- Leonard Bernstein
- James Garner
- I Love Lucy
- Danny Thomas
- Mike Wallace
6th
- Roone Arledge
- Fred Astaire
- Perry Como
- Joan Ganz Cooney
- Don Hewitt
- Carroll O'Connor
- Barbara Walters
5th
- Jack Benny
- George Burns and Gracie Allen
- Chet Huntley and David Brinkley
- Red Skelton
- David Susskind
- David Wolper
4th
- Johnny Carson
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Leonard Goldenson
- Jim Henson
- Bob Hope
- Ernie Kovacs
- Eric Sevareid
3rd
- Steve Allen
- Fred Coe
- Walt Disney
- Jackie Gleason
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Frank Stanton
- Burr Tillstrom
2nd
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- Carol Burnett
- Sid Caesar
- Walter Cronkite
- Joyce Hall
- Rod Serling
- Ed Sullivan
- Sylvester (Pat) Weaver
1st
- Lucille Ball
- Milton Berle
- Paddy Chayefsky
- Norman Lear
- Edward R. Murrow
- William S. Paley
- David Sarnoff
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