Monday, March 5, 2012

Graham, Wasserman to be honored: Broadcasting & Cables Hall of Fame announces posthumous inductions. (Top of the Week).(Katharine Graham, Lew Wasserman)(Brief Article)

Katharine Graham, of the Washington Post Co. and the Post-Newsweek Stations Group, and Lew Wasserman, of MCA and Universal Studios, will be inducted posthumously into the BROADCASTING & CABLE magazine's Hall of Fame.

Graham, who died July 17, 2001, at 84, became chief executive of The Washington Post in 1946 and built it into a diversified media corporation with newspaper, magazine, television, cable and educational-services businesses. She was regarded as one of the most powerful women in broadcasting. Under her command, the Post-Newsweek station group achieved a reputation as among the industry's finest.

Wasserman--regarded, along with MCA founder Jules …

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