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Shortly after graduating from Syracuse University, George Hamilton was employed by King Hussein of Jordan as an adviser to the Hashemite Broadcasting Service. During his time in the Middle East, he taught both programming and engineering personnel in all phases of station operations.

In his 45-year career at Syracuse University, Lawrence “Larry” Myers touched the lives of countless students and colleagues.

Beth Mowins is a pioneering play-by-play broadcaster with a career spanning more than three decades. She has covered a wide array of sports for ESPN and CBS, including men’s and women’s college basketball and football, the Women’s College World Series, NCAA championships in softball, volleyball, and soccer, and the 2011 Women’s World Cup in Germany. In 2017, Mowins made history as the first woman in 30 years to call a nationally televised NFL game, leading ESPN’s Monday Night Football doubleheader between the Los Angeles Chargers and Denver Broncos. She also works NFL preseason games for the Oakland Raiders and was part of the first all-female broadcast crew to call a Chicago Cubs game in 2024.

Scott MacFarlane is the congressional correspondent for CBS News, reporting from the network’s Washington bureau across all broadcasts and platforms. He has covered Washington, D.C., and the federal government for nearly 20 years, earning recognition for investigations that have driven policy change and accountability.

Len Berman is an award-winning sportscaster whose career spans some of the nation’s biggest broadcasting networks, including NBC, CBS, and HBO Sports. Over the years, he has earned eight Emmy Awards, six New York State Sportscaster of the Year honors, and a place in the New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Known for his approachable style, Berman created Spanning the World, a long-running NBC segment showcasing the lighter side of sports, making the field more accessible to fans and non-fans alike. He has also covered major events such as the Super Bowl, World Series, and even Olympic fencing.

Ed Levine, CEO of Galaxy Media, turned a lifelong passion for radio into one of Central New York’s most successful media companies. He first launched the company as The Radio Corporation in 1990 with one rock station, WKLL, in the Utica-Rome market. Thirty years later, the locally owned and locally operated company owns more than a dozen radio stations in Central New York, including TK99 (WTKW-FM), K-Rock (WKLL/WKRL/WKRH FM), Sunny 102 (WZUN-FM) and ESPN Syracuse (WTLA-AM), and puts on major events like Taste of Syracuse, Lights on the Lake, and the Leon Festival.

Jess Mador comes to WYSO from Knoxville NPR-station WUOT, where she created an interactive multimedia health storytelling project called TruckBeat, one of 15 projects around the country participating in AIR's Localore: #Finding Americainitiative. Before TruckBeat, Jess was an independent public radio journalist based in Minneapolis. She’s also worked as a staff reporter and producer at Minnesota Public Radio in the Twin Cities, and produced audio, video and web stories for a variety of other news outlets, including NPR News, APM, and PBS television stations. She has a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She loves making documentaries and telling stories at the intersection of journalism, digital and social media.