Recipients of the Ralph Lowell Award

Outstanding Contributions to Public Television

2006

Mary G.F. Bitterman

Veteran public television executive and chair of the PBS Board of Directors
» Press release

2005

Frederick L. DeMarco

CPB Executive
» Press release

2004

Maynard Orme

President & CEO, Oregon Public Broadcasting

2002

Ted Stevens

U.S. Senator, Alaska
» Press release

2001

Peter S. McGhee

Vice president for national programming at the Boston-based WGBH Educational Foundation
» Press release

2000

David J. Brugger

Past president and chief executive officer of the Association of America's Public Television Stations (APTS)
» Press release

1999

Thad Cochran

U.S. Senator, Mississippi

Edward M. Kennedy

U.S. Senator, Massachusetts
» Press release

1998

Julia Child

Host of The French Chef and other public TV series
» Press release

1997

Jac Venza

Director of Cultural and Arts Programs, WNET/New York, and executive producer, Great Performances

1996

Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell

Former president of WETA/Washington, D.C. and vice president for community affairs
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1995

Ken Burns

Documentary filmmaker

1994

Bruce Christensen

Former PBS president

1993

Henry Hampton

President, Blackside, Inc.

1992

Chalmers H. Marquis

Former public television representative to Congress

1991

Alistair Cooke

Host and narrator, Masterpiece Theatre, WGBH

1990

Ward B. Chamberlin, Jr.

Former president and chief executive officer, WETA/FM-TV, Washington, DC

1989

Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer

Co-anchors, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

1988

Ernest F. Hollings

U.S. Senator, South Carolina

1987

Sharon Percy Rockefeller

Former CPB board chair

1986

Barry M. Goldwater

Former U.S. Senator, Arizona

1985

David O. Ives

Vice chairman of the board of trustees and former president of WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston

1984

Lawrence K. Grossman

Former PBS president

1983

Walter H. Annenberg

Founder, The Annenberg/CPB Project

1982

Newton N. Minow

Former PBS Board chairman

1981

Fred W. Friendly

Former communications adviser, Ford Foundation

1980

Warren G. Magnuson

Former U.S. Senator, Washington

1979

James A. Fellows

Former president, National Association of Educational Broadcasters

1978

Ralph Rogers