LABF Adds Three New Board Members
• The Library of American Broadcasting Foundation (LABF) is pleased to announce Tony Coles, Dr. Caroline Frick, and Leo MacCourtney have been elected to the organization’s Board of Directors.
Tony Coles is President of iHeartMedia’s Multi-Cultural Business and Development and President of BIN: Black Information Network; Dr. Caroline Frick is an Associate Professor in the Radio-TV-Film Department at The University of Texas at Austin. She’s also the founder and Executive Director of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, an organization devoted to the discovery and preservation of media related to the state; and Leo MacCourtney is President of Katz Television Group, the nation’s leading television representation company, connecting marketers with local audiences at scale and with local impact.
The announcement was made by Co-chairs Heidi Raphael, Beasley Media Group Chief Communications Officer, and Jack Goodman, former NAB General Counsel and longtime DC-based Communications attorney, who jointly remarked, “We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Tony, Caroline, and Leo to the LABF Board of Directors. Their valuable insight and experience will help in our mission to preserve, protect and promote radio and television broadcasting’s incredible history.”
And there’s more: Executive Committee members elected to additional two-year terms include Heather Birks, Harry Jessell, Kathy Kirby, Jim Morley, Heidi Raphael, and Joyce Tudryn. In addition, Dennis Whartonwas approved to join the Committee.
The following LABF board members were elected to serve new three-year terms: Pierre Bouvard, Gary Chapman, Mary Collins, Mike Conway, Dave “Chachi” Denes, Erica Farber, Harry Jessell, David Kennedy, Dr. Judy Kuriansky, Brian Philips, Heidi Raphael and Julie Talbott.
Other current LABF board members include Heather Birks, Sally Brown, Michael Carter, Mary Collins, April Carty-Sipp, Chandra Clark, John Dille, Jack Goodman, Richard Liebner, Jim Morley, Ginny Hubbard, Deborah Parenti, Larry Patrick, Walter Podrazik, Patricia Smullin, Jeff Smulyan, Dan Spears, John Taylor, Joyce Tudryn, and Dennis Wharton.
