Schmooze | May 13, 2019

At the B&C/Multichannel News Multicultural TV Summit in New York (l. to r.): Actress Kim Fields, the Multicultural Voice award winner, B&C/MCN senior content producer R. Thomas Umstead and event host Ojinika Obiekwe of WPIX New York.

Taking part in the “As Seen on TV: Why Diversity and Respect Matter” luncheon conversation at the Multicultural Summit (l. to r.): Joe Schramm, moderator; Ravi Kapur, Diya TV/Major Market Broadcasting; DuJuan McCoy, Bayou Broadcasting; and Dan Bowens, WNYW New York.

Melvin Mar (l.), executive producer, and Nahnatchka Khan, writer and EP, accept the Diversity Advocate Award at the T. Howard Foundation’s Annual Fundraising Dinner in New York on behalf of ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat.

At the Cable Hall of Fame ceremony in New York (l. to r.): Cable Center president and CEO Jana Henthorn and board chairman Michael Willner with honorees Rob Kennedy, C-SPAN; Leslie Ellis, Ellis Edits; Kyle McSlarrow, Comcast; Bob Pittman, MTV co-founder; Martha Quinn, original MTV VJ; Mark Booth and Judy McGrath, MTV co-founders; Phil Kent, Turner; John Sykes, MTV co-founder; Susan Swain, C-SPAN; Fred Seibert, MTV co-founder; and Steve Miron, Advance/Newhouse.

Executive Leadership Award recipients at the T. Howard dinner (l. to r.): Rita Tuzon, EVP and corporate general counsel, Fox; Christina Spade, EVP and CFO, CBS Corp.; and Susan Zirinsky, president and senior executive producer, CBS News.

(From l.): Liz Tigelaar, Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter at Hulu’s 2019 NewFronts presentation at New York’s Theater at Madison Square Garden. 

Celebrating the taping of Wheel of Fortune’s 7,000th episode, which aired May 10 (l. to r): Pat Sajak, executive producer Harry Friedman and Vanna White. 

Fox News chief national correspondent Ed Henry (r.) accepts The Merriman Smith Award for his interview of former EPA chief Scott Pruitt from Jonathan Karl of ABC News at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C.

At the CBS/Politico White House Correspondents’ Dinner reception (l. to r.): CBS correspondents Caitlin Huey-Burns, Elaine Quijano and Tanya Rivero.

At a taping of Ovation’s Inside the Actors Studio at Pace University’s Sheen Center in New York (l. to r.): Greg Clausen, Spark Foundry; Alec Baldwin and Ellen Burstyn, co-presidents, The Actors Studio; Henry Winkler; and Ginny Clausen. 

(From l.): Stars Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch of CBS’s The Big Bang Theory leave their handprints at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

(From l.): Masta Killa, Inspectah Deck, director Sacha Jenkins, RZA and U-God at the FYC screening for Showtime’s Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men at the Times Center Stage in New York.