Will and Brigitte Daniel of Wilco Electronic Systems win legacy award

Will and Brigitte Daniel of Wilco Electronic Systems, one of the country’s last remaining black-owned cable operators, will be honored at tonight’s National Association of Multi-­Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) award ceremony.

The father and daughter pair, who run the Fort Washington-based three-and-a-half decade old cable operator that serves low-income Philadelphians, will receive the NAMIC Philly chapter’s Legacy Award. The event will take place at 5:30 p.m. at Le Meridien in Center City. Get tickets here.

Brigitte Daniel was also recently named one of Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown‘s “Next Generation of Leadership,” an award created to celebrate professional women.

Read our 2011 Q&A with Brigitte Daniel here.