Rodgers formerly served on the board of directors of the Procter & Gamble Company and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Nike and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), and is a trustee of the University of California (Berkeley) Foundation. He has been named to Ebony Magazine’s Power 150,"The Ebony Power 150", Ebony, May 2007 and recognized as “The Visionary” in Essence magazine’s 2008 Black Hollywood Celebration of Excellence."ESSENCE Presents Black Hollywood: A Celebration of Our Excellence", Essence, March 2008. He has also been named by Black Enterprise magazine to its list of the Top 50 Power Brokers in Hollywood"Top 50 Power Brokers in Hollywood", Black Enterprise, March 2007. and is the recipient of the NCTA’s Vanguard Award for Programmers,Television Week National Show Special Report, April 4, 2005 the cable industry’s highest honor presented to a programming executive. In 2009, he has been named to the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame and honored with a Trumpet Award, created to celebrate and honor African-American achievers in diverse fields including law, medicine, business, politics and entertainment. Rodgers was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 2002 to 2003.
