Television
- Lou Berger '72, head writer for children's television show Sesame Street. Winner of 10 Emmys for outstanding writing.
- James Calinda, co-founder of Crossphase Productions, director of music videos
- Margaret Colin, TV appearances include The Edge of Night and As the World Turns. Starred in Now and Again, Foley Square and Legwork. Films include The Devil's Own, Independence Day, Three Men and a Baby, True Believer and Pretty in Pink
- Alan Colmes, talk radio host, former co-host of Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes
- John Discepolo, current Weekend News Anchor for KOMO 4 in Seattle, WA
- Elizabeth Dennehy, Numerous TV commercials. Appeared in segments of Judging Amy, Gideon's Crossing, Seinfeld and ER. Played Blake Thorpe on The Guiding Light and Shelby in Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Irv "Mr. G" Gikofsky, CW11 (NY) News at Ten weatherman, has been delivering forecasts on New York television for almost 30 years. BA-History, 1967. Additionally, He received an MA-Secondary Education from Hofstra
- Meredith Eaton-Gilden, American actress and psychologist.
- Jon Hanford, founder of Crossphase Productions, cinematographer for music videos featured on MTV and featuring Mr Lif, Torch, Diddy, Rick Ross and The Broosevelts
- Monica Horan, actress, Everybody Loves Raymond
- Donnie Klang, Star, and Solo Artist for the hit show Making the Band 4
- Dick Maitland, Emmy award winning Foley artist and sound engineer, who for the past 40 years has created all the sound effects for "Sesame Street"
- Tom McGowan, TV series Everybody Loves Raymond, Judging Amy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, ER, King of the Hill and Frasier. Films Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Sleepless in Seattle and As Good as It Gets
- Matt Pieper, B.A. '05, news anchor/reporter at News 12 The Bronx/Brooklyn in NYC
- Barry Poznick, B.A., '90. Reality TV developer and producer
- Philip Rosenthal, creator, producer and writer for hit comedy show Everybody Loves Raymond
- Leslie Segrete, designer on TLC's While You Were Out and Trading Spaces.
- Susan Sullivan, actress
- Eliot Wald, B.A. 1967. TV and film writer
- Maryann Ridini Spencer TV Host, journalist and award-winning TV/Film writer and producer The Lost Valentine
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“So by all means let’s have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn’t it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates—the inhabitants of marketing zones in the consumer goods society, television audiences and news magazine readerships... vote with money at the cash counter rather than with the ballot paper at the polling booth.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.”
—Marya McLaughlin, U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976)