The Wonder Women luncheon on Thursday, March 19, in New York is shaping up as another don’t-miss event, and tables are selling fast.

Honoring the 17th annual class of high-accomplishing women in cable TV, programming and related fields, the program at the New York Hilton also includes three all-star hosts:

·         Alisyn Camerota, CNN anchor and co-host of morning news show New Day.

·         Andrea Canning, correspondent for NBC’s news magazine Dateline.

·         Pam Oliver, reporter for Fox NFL Sunday on Fox and Fox Sports 1.

As selected by the editors of Multichannel News, this year’s group of Wonder Women – read all about them at mcnwonderwomen.com – includes senior executives at companies ranging from cable operators Comcast, Cablevision Systems, Cox Communications and GCI; programmers A+E Networks, Disney, Fox, Univision and NUVOtv; technology provider Arris and agency Horizon Media.

The event (co-sponsored by the New York chapter of Women in Cable Telecommunications) also recognizes 12 executives as Women to Watch. They, too are from a range of programming, operating and marketing companies, including non-traditional ones such as Google and Hulu.

For more on the luncheon, honorees and sponsors, please visit mcnwonderwomen.com or call Rebecca Shottland at 917-281-4722 or email rshottland@nbmedia.com.

Fox Sports reporter Pam Oliver, who contributes sideline reports and  feature stories for the NFL on Fox, Fox NFL Sunday and network Fox Sports 1, has joined the team hosting Multichannel News's annual Wonder Women Luncheon. Oliver will take the dais along with NBC Dateline reporter Andrea Canning and CNN New Day morning program co-host Alisyn Camerota to honor the 2015 class at the New York Hilton on March 19.

The 2015 Wonder Women luncheon will fete Multichannel News's 17th annual class of 13 outstanding women in cable, telecommunications and related businesses; their photos and biographies are now on the relaunched mcnwonderwomen.com site, and their profiles will appear in the Jan. 26 edition of the magazine. Both the magazine and the event, co-sponsored by the New York chapter of Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT), will also salute another 12 "Women to Watch."

Visit mcnwonderwomen.com for news and updates on the event, and keep up with the news on Twitter using the hashtag #WW2015.

Here is more information on Oliver:

Since joining NFL on FOX in 1995, Pam Oliver has established herself as one of the premier sports reporters on network television. Oliver, in her 19th year with FOX Sports, contributes feature stories and sideline reports for the NFL on Fox, Fox NFL Sunday and FOX Sports 1. Oliver also contributes to Turner Sports’ coverage of the NBA playoffs.

Fox Sports’ broadcast of Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014 marked Oliver’s seventh championship assignment with Fox. Armed with the respect and esteem of NFL players and coaches, Oliver’s straightforward and open interviewing style consistently produces topical and substantive reports. In 2008, she was honored by WISE (Women In Sports and Events) and included in their “Women of the Year” class alongside Rita Benson LeBlanc, Owner and Executive Vice President, New Orleans Saints and Molly Solomon, Coordinating Producer, NBC Olympics.

Prior to joining Fox Sports, Oliver served as co-anchor of FSN South’s Southern Sports Report from 2000 to 2003. Prior to joining Fox Sports, Oliver served as a reporter at ESPN, where she gained football experience covering the NFL Playoffs and the NFC Championship game. In addition to her duties as feature reporter on NFL Prime Monday, she covered each Monday Night Football match-up. After the football season concluded, Oliver’s ESPN assignments included the NBA Finals and coverage of Dream Team II at the 1995 World Championships of Basketball.

Oliver began her broadcasting career as a community affairs reporter for public television. Prior to joining ESPN, Oliver worked at KHOU in Houston as a sports reporter and anchor for one year. Before moving to KHOU, she worked in a similar capacity at WTVT in Tampa. Oliver's additional television credits came at WIVB in Buffalo, WAAY in Huntsville, Ala., WALB in Albany, Ga., and WFSU in Tallahassee.

A graduate of Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Oliver received her degree in broadcast journalism. As an undergraduate, she was an NCAA and AIAW track and field All-American in both the 400 meters and the mile relay. As a member of the mile relay team, Oliver had the distinction of participating on the first women's team from Florida A&M to win a national championship. She was inducted into the Florida A&M Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.

Born in Dallas, Oliver currently resides in Atlanta with her husband, Alvin.

Andrea Canning, the correspondent for NBC's Dateline and contributor to all NBC News platforms, including TODAY and NBC Nightly News, has been named as a host of the March 19 Wonder Women luncheon at the Hilton New York, the publishers of Multichannel News announced today.

The event honors the 2015 class of Wonder Women, whose photos and biographies are now on the relaunched mcnwonderwomen.com site and whose profiles will appear in the Jan. 26 edition of the magazine. In addition to the 13 women in cable, telecommunications and related businesses honored as Wonder Women, the magazine and event salutes 12 Women To Watch. As always, the luncheon event is co-sponsored by the New York chapter of Women in Cable Telecommunications.

Check back with mcnwonderwomen.com for news as more hosts are named and for other information about the event.

Here is more about Andrea Canning:

ANDREA CANNING

Correspondent, NBC’s Dateline

Andrea Canning is a correspondent for NBC’s Dateline and has been since October 2012. She contributes to all NBC News platforms, including TODAY and NBC Nightly News. Canning reports on major crime stories and national trials.

Prior to joining NBC News, Canning served as an ABC News correspondent since 2004, where she covered the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court and the Iraq War for ABC’s affiliate news service, NewsOne. Canning covered a wide array of stories ranging from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the Casey Anthony case, to her 2011 headline-making interview with actor Charlie Sheen. Canning contributed to Good Morning America, Nightline, World News with Diane Sawyer and 20/20, while regularly anchoring the early morning broadcasts World News Now and America This Morning. She also served as fill-in news reader for Good Morning America and fill-in anchor for the program’s weekend edition.

Canning previously worked for WCPO-TV, the ABC affiliate in Cincinnati, Ohio, as anchor of their evening newscast. From 1999 to 2001, Canning covered countless stories for WPTV, the NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach, Florida, including the anthrax scare at the National Enquirer buildings, the path of the 9/11 terrorists, the international custody battle of Elian Gonzalez and the 2000 Presidential Election. Canning served as a reporter and evening news anchor for CKVR Television in Barrie, Ontario from 1997 to 1999. She was also the morning anchor for WXVT-CBS in Greenville, Mississippi. Prior to CKVR, from 1996 to 1997, Canning was an assignment editor and field producer for the television program Extra.

Canning graduated from the University of Western Ontario in London with a degree in psychology. In addition, she studied radio and television arts at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto. She is married to Major Tony Bancroft, a former F-18 fighter pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps. They have four young daughters, and are expecting a fifth daughter in May 2015. Canning is on Twitter @CanningAndrea.