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WASHINGTON — Bridget Baker, president of TV Networks Distribution
at NBCUniversal, and Jerry Kent, chairman and CEO of
Suddenlink Communications, will receive the 2012 Vanguard
Award for Distinguished Leadership, the National Cable & Telecommunications
Association said.

A full roster of Vanguard Award
winners will be recognized for their
outstanding contributions to the
cable industry on May 23 at a luncheon
and awards ceremony during
The Cable Show 2012 at the Boston
Convention and Exposition Center.

The other honorees are:

Cable Operations Management:
Jill Campbell, executive vice president
and chief operations officer,
Cox Communications Inc.

Programming: John Landgraf,
president and general manager, FX
Networks.

Science & Technology: Chuck Pagano, EVP and chief technology
offi cer, ESPN.

Government & Community Relations: Gail MacKinnon, EVP
and chief government relations officer, Time Warner Cable.

Marketing: Linda Schupack, EVP, marketing, AMC.
Associates & Affiliates: Dan Moloney, president, Motorola
Mobility.

Young Leadership: Tapan Dandnaik, senior vice president,
customer service and financial operations, Mediacom Communications
Corp., and Jeffrey Hirsch, EVP and chief marketing
officer, residential services, Time Warner Cable.

Cable Pioneers Names 16 New Members

BOSTON — The Cable TV Pioneers organization has named the
16 inductees in the 2012 class.

The 46th annual banquet will be held Sunday, May 20, at
the Boston Harbor Hotel during the upcoming Cable Show
2012 convention. For more information, log on to
http://cabletvpioneers.ezregister.com.

The 16 inductees are:

• Marshall Cohen, Marshall Cohen Associates;

• Bruce D. Collins, C-SPAN Networks;

• David M. Downey, Invidi Technologies;

• Robert S. Grassi, HBO (retired);

• Stanley “Stan” Hitchcock, Blue Highways TV;

• Edward T. Holleran Jr., Atlantic Broadband;

• Howard Horowitz, Horowitz Associates;

• James P. Ludington, Time Warner Cable;

• Gary R. Matz, Time Warner Cable;

• Lenny Melamedas, Enable TV;

• James A. Penney, Wave Broadband;

• Lisa W. Schoenthaler, National Cable & Telecommunications
Association;

• Alan M. Tschirner, Tschirner Consulting;

• Eric J. Tveter, UPC Cablecom GMBH;

• Kenneth S. Wood, CommScope;

• Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard, YAS Capital Partners.