The Cable Center said it will induct seven more industry vets into the Cable Television Hall of Fame next year.

The new inductees will be:

Jack Crosby, who has been one of the founders of eight major MSOs. He is the founder and current chairman of The Rust Group;

John Goddard, former president and CEO of Viacom Cable;

Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television and current owner of the NBA's Charlotte Hornets;

Geraldine Laybourne, a cable programming exec who founded Oxygen Media, and previously served as president of Nickelodeon and president of Disney/ABC Cable Networks;

Paul Maxwell, who founded about 40 publications, including industry trades Cablevision and Multichannel News;

Trygve Myhren, former chairman and CEO of American Television and Communications Corp, and a past chairman of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association;

June Travis, vice president and COO of NCTA until her retirement in 1999. She also served as president and CEO of Denver-based Rifkin & Associates.

The new members of the Hall will be formally honored at a Cable Center event scheduled for the evening of Oct. 13, 2004.