NAB To Honor Alan Alda

• Entertainment industry legend Alan Alda will receive the National Association of Broadcasters’ Distinguished Service Award (NAB DSA) during the 2019 NAB Show in Las Vegas. Alda will accept the award at the NAB Show Opening session on Monday, April 8. Each year, the NAB DSA recognizes members of the broadcast community who have made a significant and lasting contribution to the industry. Previous award recipients include Robin Roberts, Bob Schieffer, Michael J. Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, President Ronald Reagan, Edward R. Murrow, Bob Hope, Walter Cronkite and Oprah Winfrey, among others.

Alda will forever be best known and loved for his starring role as Dr. Hawkeye Pierce in the hit television series M*A*S*H, which debuted in 1972 and ran for 11 seasons. Alda also directed many episodes and co-wrote its feature-length 1983 series finale, Goodbye, Farewell and Amen –– making Alda the only person to win acting, directing and writing Emmys for the same series. In 2004, Alda joined the sixth season of The West Wing as Senator Arnold Vinick, for which he also received an Emmy. In total, Alda has won seven Emmy awards and has been nominated 34 times. He has also made guest appearances on ER, 30 Rock, The Blacklist, The Good Fight and Ray Donovan and has appeared in dozens of movies, including his Oscar-nominated role as Senator Ralph Owen Brewster in The Aviator.

“Alan Alda is an authentic entertainer whose incredible talent and enduring characters have engaged audiences for decades,” said NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith. “We look forward to celebrating the immeasurable contributions he’s made to television and film at the 2019 NAB Show.”