Golden Mike Awards Sets Celeb Participants

A number of broadcasters and entertainers will participate in the 2014 Golden Mike Award to honor Del Bryant, president of BMI, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on Monday, Feb. 24.  The annual gala is one of the biggest fundraisers for the Broadcasters Foundation of America — the charity that helps TV and radio professionals whose lives have been affected by serious illness, accidents and other life-altering circumstances.

The evening will be hosted by Bob Schieffer, anchor and moderator of CBS’s Face the Nation. Schieffer has been a reporter for more than half a century, and 2014 marks his 45^th year at CBS News.

Entertainment will be provided by the Kris Kristofferson, recent recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Country Music Hall of Famer.

Also joining the program in honor of Bryant is culinary and home style expert Sandra Lee, who will be a presenter. She is the editor in chief of Sandra Lee Magazine and the host of four culinary programs on Food Network and Cooking Channel. Lee also is the host of HGTV’s Sandra Lee Celebrates, a series of primetime entertaining specials.

The evening will also feature singer/songwriters Michael Bolton and Mac Davis. 

Bryant has spent more than four decades at BMI, working with singer/songwriters and broadcasters alike. He played the leading role in re-engineering and modernizing BMI’s royalty distribution system. Bryant directed the implementation of the structure introduced in 1987 as part of an aggressive writer acquisition campaign that marked a sharp turn-around at BMI and attracted many of the best new writers across key genres of music.

The Broadcasters Foundation of America has distributed millions of dollars in aid to hundreds of broadcasters who lost their livelihood through a catastrophic event, debilitating disease or unforeseen family tragedy.