The Giants of 2025 and Friends

Photo: Wendy Moger Bross

The class of 2025 was inducted at LABF’s annual awards luncheon at Gotham Hall in New York on Nov. 14. The seven newcomers are now part of the honor roll of 262 Giants. Pictured here are the Giants, other honorees and members of the LABF board.

The Giants (seated, l-r, starting from the second seat from the left): Lesley Visser, network sports correspondent; David Muir, ABC News; Lynn Beall, TV station group executive; Rick Dees, multimedia entertainer and entrepreneur; John Feore, communications attorney; Gary Sandy, stage, screen and film actor; Dick Ferguson, radio group executive. Seated at the far left is Peter Alexander, NBC News, who represented NBC in LABF’s celebration of NBC’s 100th anniversary year.

Standing are LABF board members, except those otherwise identified here. The lineup (l-r): Harry Jessell; Steven Portnoy, of ABC Radio, winner of the LABF Preservation Award; Mike McVay; Heidi Raphael; Heather Cohen; Julie Talbot; Ginny Morris; Dr. Judy Kuriansky; Tony Coles; Jack Goodman; Ernesto Mourelo, Joyce Tudryn; Dennis Wharton; Chachi Denes; Jeff Liberman; David Kennedy; Deborah Parenti; April Carty-Sipp; Wally Podrazik, John Taylor; Mary Collins; Bill Whitaker, CBS News, Giants emcee; Gary Chapman; and Jim Morley.

Photo: Wendy Moger Bross