Richard Wiley to get Excellence in Broadcasting Award

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Richard WileyRichard E. Wiley, Chairman of Wiley Rein LLP and a former Chairman of the FCC, will receive the 2014 Lowry Mays Excellence in Broadcasting Award during The Broadcasters Foundation of America Breakfast on 4/9, at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas at NAB.


The award honors an individual in broadcasting whose work exemplifies innovation, community service, advocacy, and entrepreneurship.   It salutes its namesake Lowry Mays and is underwritten by The Clear Channel Foundation and Wiley Rein, LLP.

Wiley heads an 80-attorney Communications Practice, the largest in the nation.   As Chairman of the FCC from 1974 to 1977, he fostered increased competition and lessened regulation in the communications field.  Wiley played a pivotal role in the development of HDTV in this country, serving for nine years as Chairman of the FCC’s Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service from 1987 to 1995.  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.

Wiley has often been profiled by the media and recognized for his expertise and contributions to the communications industry.  He has been recognized by Washingtonian magazine as one of Washington’s 30 “Superstar” lawyers for his role as “the unofficial sixth commissioner” of the FCC (2011) and consistently listed as one of Washington’s “Best Lawyers” and “Top Lawyers” in the magazine.  He was named the “most prominent telecommunications lawyer and lobbyist in Washington” by Broadcasting & Cable in 2005, and he was honored with the National Association of Broadcasters’ Distinguished Service Award in 2002.

The Broadcasters Foundation of America Breakfast is complimentary due to the generosity of its sponsors, Frank N. Magid Associates, Marketron, the NAB, the National Association of Media Brokers (NAMB), the RAB, and the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB).