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Pledges to the Comprehensive Campaign
Corporate, Foundation, and Individual Donors
2008 New York Gala
2008 Los Angeles Gala

Pledges to the Comprehensive Campaign

$1 million+

Annenberg Foundation
CBS Corporation
Gordon Crawford
Gustave M. Hauser
The Joan Ganz Cooney and
    Peter G. Peterson Fund at
    The New York Community Trust
Mel Karmazin
NBC Universal
News Corporation/Fox Group
Verizon Communications
Viacom
The Walt Disney Company
The William Randolph Hearst Foundation
William S. Paley Foundation, Inc.

$500,000-$999,999

Christopher H. Browne
The Hearst Corporation
Stanley S. Shuman 		 

$100,000-$499,999

Ronald Davenport
George J. Gillespie, III
Scott P. Kurnit
Madigan Family Foundation

$50,000-$99,999

Discovery Communications, Inc.
Kay Koplovitz
Scripps Howard Foundation

$1,000-$49,999

Loreen Arbus
James L. Greenwald Foundation
Lynne & Burt Manning
William C. Paley
David J. and Dianne B. Stern
Grant Tinker
Barbara Walters

Corporate, Foundation, and Individual Donors

 

Golden Benefactors ($100,000+)

Accenture
Frank A. Bennack, Jr.
Blair Foundation
BMO Capital Markets Corp.
Booz & Company
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Gustavo A. Cisneros
The Hauser Foundation, Inc.
The Hearst Corporation
NBC Universal
The News Corporation Foundation
The Nielsen Company
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Sony Corporation of America
TV Guide
UBS
Viacom International, Inc.
The Walt Disney Company
William S. Paley Foundation, Inc.
Dick Wolf

Silver Benefactors ($50,000-$99,999)

Bank of America
The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation
Joan Ganz Cooney
Gordon Crawford
James L. Greenwald Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
KPMG LLP
McKinsey & Company
Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, Inc.
SanomaWSOY
Seven Network Ltd.
Verizon Communications
Rosalind P. Walter

Benefactors ($25,000-$49,999)

The Ambrose Monell Foundation
Belo Corp.
Christopher H. Browne
Cablevision Systems Corporation
CINVESTE, SGPS, SA
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Department of Cultural Affairs,
    City of New York
Leo Hindery, Jr.
Richard Kandel through the
    Theodore & Renee Weiler Foundation, Inc.
Lloyd E. Rigler - Lawrence E. Deutsch
    Foundation
Madigan Family Foundation
Merrill Lynch
MIH Group
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
McCormick Foundation
David J. Stern
David S. Stone, The Smart Family Foundation/
    Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP,
    New Jersey Office
Time Warner Inc.
Très LA
Warner Bros. Entertainment

Leaders ($10,000-$24,999)

A&E IndieFilms
Advertising Week, Inc.
Bloomberg
Bresnan Communications
The Chernin Family Foundation
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies
Coca-Cola North America
Deloitte
Financial Times
Jeanne Donovan Fisher
Gabelli Funds
Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc.
Interep
Interpublic Group
Henry A. Kissinger
Richard Leibner &
    Carole Cooper/N.S. Bienstock, Inc.
Diane Meyer Simon
Mintz Levin
Leslie Moonves
National Basketball Association
Otto Haas Charitable Trust
The Spiritus Gladius Foundation
Surdna Foundation, Inc.
Unity Productions Foundation
The Wallace Foundation

Advocates ($5,000-$9,999)

A&E Television Networks
Allen & Company LLC
BET Holdings, Inc.
BMI
The Broder Foundation
DeSilva + Phillips
The Documentary Channel
Entertainment Weekly
Joseph H. Flom
Thomas M. Fontana
Gail Panfiel Hoffman
Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.
Hugh M. Hefner Foundation
Johnson & Johnson
KSL Resorts
Michael Lombardo
Mark Asset Management Corporation
McCann-Erickson USA
Morgan Stanley
Brian T. Moynihan
Steven Newhouse
Jeanne and Gary Newman
The New York Times Company Foundation
Clive Ng
Laura M. Patterson
Polo Ralph Lauren
Jerome & Christine Ponz
The Richard Eaton Foundation, Inc.
Rick Rosen
Maxine & Gene Rosenfeld
Sheila C. Johnson Foundation
Kathleen M. Sloane
SoftBank Capital
Solera Capital LLC
Harry Tilis
Tweedy, Browne Company LLC
Enzo Viscusi
Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon
Andrea Wong
Jeff Zucker
 

Guardians ($2,500-$4,999)

Association of Independent Creative Editors
CBS Television Network
Stanley Cohen
Colgate-Palmolive Company
The CW
Madeline Di Nonno
The Ellen M. Violett &
    Mary P.R. Thomas Foundation, Inc.
Fox Broadcasting Company
Hallmark Channel and
    Hallmark Movie Channel
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Rhoda R. Herrick
ING Capital LLC
Steve Kroft
LIN TV Corp.
Greg Meidel
Jim Packer
Wendy Pincus
Scripps Howard Foundation
Mike Wallace
WNET.ORG

Associates ($1,000-$2,499)

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Lois Aldrin
Andrew R. DeMar Family Foundation
ASCAP
Wendy Bagnall
Allen J. Bernstein
Michael I. Bernstein
Deborah Bierman
Kim Brizzolara
H. Joanne Brumberg
E. Blake Byrne
Dan Cohen
David Conney
Mary Levin Cutler
Ernie & Danielle Del
Andy Diaz
DIC Entertainment
Barbara J. Durell
Phyllis Easton
EMI Music Publishing
Ernst & Elfiede Frank Foundation
Richard Fleder
The Friars National Association Foundation
Jennifer L. Futch
Alice L. George
Harry E. Gould
Ned Greene
Rebecca & Isaac Herschkopf
Doug Herzog
Patricia Higgins
Alan Horn
James A. McDonald Foundation
Corinna Jones
Judy Point Charitable Trust
Kim Keller
Phyllis Kossoff
Robert M. Letteau
Thomas B. McGrath
Media General, Inc.
Susan Merinoff
George Nadel Rivin
New Amsterdam Entertainment
Bob Newhart
Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, Inc.
Jonathan H. Parker
Lex Passaris
Tony Rodgers
Lee Ruttenberg
Samuel J. & Ethel LeFrak
    Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Charles B. Scarborough
Alan Schram
Brian Sharoff
StubHub
Burt Sugarman
TheBuzzWire.net
Melody Thomas Scott
Travisty Productions, Inc.
Wertheimer Foundation
Fred Wistow

In-Kind

American Airlines
The Arterie
CJ Matsumoto & Sons
Covington & Burling LLP
Davie-Brown Entertainment
Google, Inc.
Heineken USA
Los Angeles Times
Martha Stewart Living
The NewsMarket
Pepsi-Cola
PPTshare
SoftBank Capital
Sputnik
Sun Microsystems
Time Warner Inc.
Town & Country
Très L.A.
Union Ice
Variety

New York Gala

February 7, 2008

Benefactors

CB Richard Ellis
CBS Corporation
Disney - ABC Television Group
Edward & Patricia McLaughlin Foundation
Fujisankei Communications
    International, Inc.
George J. Gillespie, III
The Hearst Corporation
Scott Kurnit and Abbe Heller
McKinsey & Company
Mel Karmazin Foundation
News Corporation
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Tweedy, Browne Company LLC
Viacom Inc.

Sponsors

Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton
Joan Ganz Cooney & Peter G. Peterson
Ernst & Young
The Hearst Corporation
Lynne & Burt Manning
Dina Merrill and Ted Hartley
Microsoft Media & Entertainment Group
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Sony Corporation of America
Rosalind P. Walter

Patrons

Discovery Communications
The Eisner Foundation
GroupM
The Hearst Corporation
Interep
ION Media Networks, Inc.
Katz Media Group
KPMG LLP
NBA and WNBA
NBC Universal
The Nielsen Company
OMD
Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb Inc.
Sheridan Broadcasting Corp./
    American Urban Radio Networks
Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue
Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc.
UBS Securities
Verizon Communications
 

Contributors/Individual Tickets

AArbitron
Ariel Capital Management
Autism Speaks
Bank of America
Best Buy
Blackstone
Edward and Magda Bleier
Bloomberg
Anne Board
Caballero Television
Crossroads Media
The Eisner Foundation
James and Marilee Greenwald
Hallmark Channel
The Hearst Corporation
Gail Panfiel Hoffman
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Kay and William Koplovitz
Karen and William Lauder
Lazard
Lehman Brothers
Richard Leibner & Carole Cooper/
    N.S. Bienstock, Inc.
Madigan Family Foundation
Massachusetts General Hospital
William and Phyllis McGorry
The Motion Picture Association
Multichannel News
    (Reed Business Information)
George Munroe
The National Football League
Alison and William Paley
Kate Paley
Jonathan H. Parker
Playboy
Radical Media
Sydney R. Shuman and Stanley S. Shuman
Kathleen M. Sloane
Tango Productions
Threespot
The Tomorrow Foundation, Inc.
Turner Foundation
Barbara Walters
William Morris Agency
World Wide Workshop
Lawrence W. Young

Los Angeles Gala

December 11, 2008

Benefactors

Dona & Gordon Crawford
Fox Entertainment Group
The Hearst Corporation
Scott Kurnit
Showtime Networks
Wolf Films

Sponsors

Annenberg Foundation
MGM Studios, Inc.
Warner Bros. Entertainment

Patrons

Comcast Entertainment Group
Creative Artists Agency
The Hearst Corporation
Norman Lear & Mel Brooks
Lionsgate
OMD
Showtime Networks
Summit Entertainment
Variety
Walt Disney Company
Warren Lieberfarb & Associates

 

Contributors/Individual Tickets

Phil Alcabes
Jim & Debbie Burrows
Blake Byrne
Caldwell Leslie & Proctor
Capital Guardian Trust Company
CBS
Comcast Corporate
David Conney
Dibella Entertainment
Directors Guild of America
Endeavor
HBO
International Creative Management
Irell & Manella LLP
Alan & Sharon Kane
Marilyn & Jeffrey Katzenberg
Kurnit, Inc.
LA Dodgers Dream Foundation
Lifetime
Dick Lippin
MK Advertising
Phil & Monica Rosenthal
George Shapiro
United Talent Agency
William Morris Agency
Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, Fischer,
    Gilbert-Lurie, Stiffelman, Cook,
    Johnson, Lande & Wolf LLP
   

 

The Paley Center wishes to express its appreciation to the networks, studios, production companies, and individuals whose program donations have made it possible for the public to have access to the Paley Center’s collection.

The Paley Center wishes to thank Morrison & Foerster LLP for its generous and ongoing commitment of professional and consulting services.

The Paley Center also expresses its appreciation for the continuing support of: The American Federation of Musicians; the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists; Directors Guild of America; Screen Actors Guild; Writers Guild of America, East; and Writers Guild of America, west.

As of December 31, 2008