2006 Cable TV Pioneer Class Named

The inductees to the 2006 Cable TV Pioneer Class were announced.

The 40th Annual Pioneer Banquet will be held during the National Show April 9 in Atlanta.

The 2006 class is: Shelley Blaine Goodman, A&E Television Networks; Rocco B. Commisso, Mediacom Communications Corp.; Robert V.C. Dickinson, Dovetail Sciences Corp.; Daniel E. Davids, The History Channel; Tom Freston, Viacom Inc.; Donald T. Gall, Pangrac & Associates Inc.; Erica Gruen, Quantum Media Associates; John J. Hagerty, Home Box Office; Leland “Wayne” Hall, Comcast Cable Communications Inc.; Neil Heller, Comcast Cable; Richard Lee Jackson, Jackson Communications Corp.; David J. Keefe, Atlantic Broadband; James H. Kuhns, James Cable LLC; William Thomas Oliver, Game Play Media–Play-It-Now; Leslie W. Read, Read Broadband Services; J. Alonzo “Lon” Rosado, Great Lakes Data Systems Inc.; Mark D. Sena, Media Sphere Partners LLC; and Italia Commisso Weinand, Mediacom.