2023 Inductees Of The Broadcast + Cable Hall Of Fame

Soledad O’Brien, Wonya Lucas, Deborah Roberts andAl Roker - Noam Galai / Stringer / Mike Coppola / Gary Gershoff / John Nacion

Important individuals within the TV industry will gather on May 3, 2023, at New York’s Ziegfeld Ballroom to celebrate the induction of the 31st class of the B+C Hall of Fame in recognition of their special contributions. The institution began in 1991 to honor individuals who made significant contributions to TV and electronic media. This year’s Hall of Fame class includes POC members:

• Deborah Roberts

• Al Roker

• Wonya Lucas

• Soledad O’Brien

Deborah Roberts is an African American television journalist for the ABC News division of the ABC broadcast television network. Roberts moved to ABC News in 1995 as a correspondent for 20/20. While there, she also served as an anchor for World News Tonight Weekend, the weekend evening news program, and for Good Morning America, the ABC morning news program. Roberts has won an Emmy Award and a Clarion Award for her reporting and has contributed to other platforms on ABC like Primetime, Nightline, and The Katie Couric Show. Roberts currently hosts Lifetime Live on Lifetime Television, a cable and satellite television channel.

Albert Lincoln Roker Jr., also known as Al Roker, is an African American weather presenter, journalist, television personality, and author. He is the current meteorologist anchor on NBC's Today and occasionally co-hosts 3rd Hour Today. Roker has hosted NBC's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade since 1995 (apart from 2022), where he provides commentary along with some of his Today show colleagues. In 2016, Roker and his wife, Deborah Roberts, published the non-fiction book Been There, Done That: Family Wisdom for Modern Times. Roker has been married to Roberts since 1995.

Wonya Lucas is Crown Media Family Networks' president and CEO. Lucas oversees the company's entertainment brands, which include the networks Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, and Hallmark Drama. She runs the video-on-demand subscription service Hallmark Movies Now and the publishing subsidiary Hallmark Publishing. Lucas was president and CEO of Public Broadcasting Atlanta before joining Crown Media in August 2020, where she handled Atlanta's NPR (WABE) and PBS (ATL PBA) stations. She was also the president and CEO of TV One, making her the second African American woman to occupy that position in a cable television network. Prior to joining TV One, Lucas was executive vice president, global chief marketing officer, and COO for Discovery Channel and Science Channel at Discovery Communications.

Soledad O'Brien is an American broadcast journalist and executive producer who has been the host of Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien, a nationally syndicated weekly talk show produced by Hearst Television, since 2016. She is the chairwoman of Starfish Media Group, a multiplatform media production company and distributor that she founded in 2013. She is also a member of the Peabody Awards board of directors. O'Brien’s resume includes co-anchoring CNN's American Morning from 2003 to 2007, serving as the anchor of CNN's morning news program Starting Point from 2012 to 2013, a special correspondent on the Al Jazeera America news program America Tonight, and a correspondent on HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.

Co-hosts for the celebration will be Craig Melvin of NBC News and Tracy Wolfson of CBS Sports.