BFA To Honor Richard Wiley With Mays Award

Richard E. Wiley, chairman of Wiley Rein LLP and a former FCC chairman, will receive the 2014 Lowry Mays Excellence in Broadcasting Award from the Broadcasters Foundation of America. 

The award will be presented during the organization’s annual breakfast during the NAB Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday, April 9, at the Wynn Hotel.

Wiley heads an 80-attorney communications practice, the largest in the nation.  He represents a number of major communications-oriented organizations, including Verizon, AT&T, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Motorola, CBS, Belo, Gannett, Sirius/XM, Emmis, Gray Television, and LG.

As chairman of the FCC from 1974 to 1977, he fostered increased competition and lessened regulation in the communications field.

Wiley also played a pivotal role in the development of HDTV in the United States, serving as chairman of the FCC’s Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service from 1987 to 1995.

The Lowry Mays Excellence in Broadcasting Award honors an individual in broadcasting whose work exemplifies innovation, community service, advocacy, and entrepreneurship.  It salutes its namesake Lowry Mays, the founder of Clear Channel Communications.

The breakfast, which is complimentary to all, is sponsored by Frank N. Magid Associates, Marketron, the NAB, the National Association of Media Brokers (NAMB), the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB), and the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB). 

For more information and to register, contact 212-373-8250 or send an email. 

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