KDWN (720 AM) is an American radio station owned by Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
 It broadcasts full-time at 50,000 watts, and is directional at night.
 It can be heard throughout most of the Western United States, north into Canada and south into Mexico.
 KDWN is primarily a news-talk radio station featuring a local morning talk show host Alan Stock and syndicated talk show host Jerry Doyle.
 KDWN also broadcasts brokered programs for Las Vegas casinos, local businesses, and other groups.
 It is the station where famous late-night talk show host Art Bell first broadcast his show, Coast to Coast AM.
 It also has a local news alliance with Channel 8 KLAS-TV, the CBS TV Network affiliate in Las Vegas.
John William Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American talk show host and comedian, best known for his 30 years as host of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" (1962–1992).
 Carson received six Emmy Awards, the Television Academy's 1980 Governor's Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award.
 He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987.
 Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.
Tavis Smiley ( ; born September 13, 1964) is an American talk show host and author.
 Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Bunker Hill, Indiana.
 After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles.
 Smiley became a radio commentator in 1991 and, starting in 1996, he hosted the talk show "BET Talk" (later renamed "BET Tonight") on Black Entertainment Television (BET).
 After Smiley sold an exclusive interview of Sara Jane Olson to ABC News in 2001, BET declined to renew his contract that year.
 Smiley then began hosting "The Tavis Smiley Show" on National Public Radio (NPR) (2002–04) and currently hosts "Tavis Smiley" on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on weekdays and "The Tavis Smiley Show" on Public Radio International (PRI).
 From 2010 to 2013, Smiley and Cornel West joined forces to host their own radio talk show, "Smiley & West".
 They were featured together interviewing musician Bill Withers in the 2009 documentary film "Still Bill".
 He is the new host of "Tavis Talks" on BlogTalkRadio's Tavis Smiley Network.
Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host and a former White House adviser who, according to "60 Minutes", became President Barack Obama's "go-to black leader."
 In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election.
 He hosts his own radio talk show, "Keepin' It Real", and he makes regular guest appearances on Fox News (such as on "The O'Reilly Factor"), CNN, and MSNBC.
 In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's "PoliticsNation", a nightly talk show.
 In 2015, the program was shifted to Sunday mornings.
Charles Arthur "Art" Smith (born March 1, 1960) is an American chef who has worked for former Florida governors Bob Graham and Jeb Bush and until 2007 was personal chef to Oprah Winfrey.
 His expertise is Southern cuisine.
Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an American actress, producer, and television presenter.
 Lake is best known for her talk show which was broadcast internationally from September 1993 until May 2004.
 When Lake's show debuted, she was 24 and credited as being the youngest person to host a syndicated talk show at the time.
 In autumn 2012, Lake embarked on a second syndicated talk show project "The Ricki Lake Show" (dubbed as "The New Ricki Lake Show"), which aired on weekdays.
 In 2013, the series was canceled after one season but Lake won her first Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host.
This is an alphabetized, partial list of recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, grouped by the aspect of life in which they are/were renowned.
 The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded by the President of the United States "for especially meritorious contribution to (1) the security or national interests of the United States, or (2) world peace, or (3) cultural or other significant public or private endeavors"; it is awarded to individuals selected by the President or recommended to him by the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board.
 The only exception to the rule for the sitting president choosing those to be honored, was that the first recipients were selected by President John F. Kennedy before his assassination, and formally awarded by his successor in office, Lyndon B. Johnson.
 President Barack Obama awarded 123 Medals, the most ever, followed by President Ronald Reagan with 102 Medal recipients.
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.
 She is best known for her talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show", which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
 Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she has been ranked the richest African-American, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is North America's first multi-billionaire black person.
 Several assessments rank her as the most influential woman in the world.
 In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard.
Robert "Rob" Redding, Jr. (born January 13, 1976) is an American media proprietor, award-winning radio talk show host, political commentator, independent journalist, a best-selling American author, a best-selling American music artist and songwriter, visual artist and social entrepreneur.
 Redding is known as the founder and publisher of "Redding News Review" and host of a talk radio show and podcast.
 In 2003, he was among few blacks to be named to Talkers Magazine's "100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America" and has received a proclamation for his work by the Atlanta City Council the same year.
 He made history being the only black program director in white-dominated talk radio station in 2009.
 His web site Redding News Review has earned three consecutive Black Web Awards.
 He currently runs the web's oldest black news aggregation outlet and first and most successful stand-alone subscriber-based web site and talk show.
Chip Franklin is a nationally known talk show host, writer, producer, comedian and musician.
 For the last 20+ years, he's been a talk show host, and is currently on KGO in San Francisco, California.
 He is also former host of a talk show on KOGO in San Diego, California and WBAL AM 1090 in Baltimore, Maryland and at WMAL in Washington DC.
 The Washington Post's Marc Fisher says "Franklin adds a rare dose of irony to a medium that rarely trusts its audience to get the joke.”
 In San Diego and Baltimore, Washington DC, Franklin is also known as a comedian and frequents clubs in the markets.

Question:  Art Smith was personal chef to a talk show host that was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in what year?
Answer: 2013