Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions.
1960s
1960
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence
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| NBC
|
Award for the White Paper series of news specials
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| The Shari Lewis Show
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| The Texaco Huntley-Brinkley Report
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| CBS
|
Award for coverage of the 1960 Winter and Summer Olympics
|
| CBS Reports, for Harvest of Shame
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| G.E. College Bowl
|
| The Fabulous Fifties, a revue produced by Leland Hayward
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| Dr. Frank Stanton (CBS)
|
Personal Award for Dr. Stanton's actions that led to the 1960 presidential debates
|
| Broadcasting and Film Commission of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.
|
Institutional Award for the programs Look Up and Live, Frontiers of Faith, Pilgrimage, and Talk-back
|
| KPFK Radio/Los Angeles, CA
|
Separate Institutional Awards for the stations' locally produced programming
|
| WCCO-TV/Minneapolis, MN
|
| WCKT-TV/Miami, FL
|
| WOOD Radio and WOOD-TV/Grand Rapids, MI
|
| Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network
|
Institutional Award for the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts
|
| WQXR/New York, NY
|
Musical Spectaculars
|
| Irene Wicker (WNYC/New York, NY)
|
Personal Award for Wicker's work on the children's radio program The Singing Lady
|
1961
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence
|
| WNYC/New York, NY
|
The Reader's Almanac and Teen Age Book Talk
|
| BBC Television
|
An Age of Kings, with recognition to National Educational Television, Metropolitan Broadcasting, individual stations, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and Humble Oil
|
| NBC
|
David Brinkley's Journal
|
| The Bob Newhart Show
|
| Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait, narrated by Martin Gabel with Lee J. Cobb as Van Gogh
|
| ABC
|
Expedition!
|
| Capital Cities Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and executive producer Milton Fruchtman
|
Award for coverage of the trial of Adolf Eichmann and its summary documentary Verdict for Tomorrow: The Eichmann Trial on Television
|
| CBS and Walter Lippman
|
Institutional Award for television contribution to international understanding
|
| Fred W. Friendly (CBS)
|
Personal Award for Friendly's work in television journalism
|
| WFMT/Chicago, IL
|
Institutional Award for fine arts entertainment
|
| WRUL (Worldwide Broadcasting)/New York, NY
|
Institutional Award for contribution to international understanding for the station's coverage (in English and Spanish) of the United Nations' General Assembly proceedings
|
| KSL-TV/Salt Lake City, UT
|
Let Freedom Ring, featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, starring Richard Boone, Laraine Day, Howard Keel, and Dan O'Herlihy and narrated by Richard L. Evans
|
| Newton N. Minow
|
Personal Award to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
|
1962
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence
|
| CBS
|
A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy
|
| Carol Burnett (CBS)
|
Personal Award for Burnett's comedic performances
|
| Walter Cronkite (CBS News)
|
Personal Award for Cronkite's work on The Twentieth Century, CBS Reports, and other work for CBS News
|
| ABC
|
Adlai Stevenson Reports
|
| WJR/Detroit, MI
|
Adventures in Good Music
|
| Official Films Inc.
|
Biography
|
| WNDT/New York, NY
|
Books for Our Time, hosted by August Heckscher II
|
| WMAQ/Chicago, IL
|
Carnival of Books
|
| NBC
|
The DuPont Show of the Week
|
| Exploring
|
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
|
| NBC Radio Network
|
The Eternal Light
|
| William R. McAndrew (NBC News)
|
Personal Award for McAndrew's "vision and leadership" as NBC News' Executive VP
|
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA
|
Elliot Norton Reviews, hosted by Elliot Norton
|
| Television Information Office and National Association of Broadcasters
|
Institutional Award for the organizations' study of locally produced children's programming which resulted in the book For the Young Viewer: Television Programming for Children… at the Local Level
|
| WQXR/New York, NY
|
Institutional Award for the station's news presentations in the midst of the New York City newspaper strike
|
| KPIX-TV/San Francisco, CA
|
San Francisco Pageant, a series of historical documentaries profiling the city of San Francisco
|
| KNX/Los Angeles, CA
|
Science Editor, produced by the University of California Extension[1]
|
1963
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence
|
| Broadcasting industry of the United States
|
Award for coverage of the John F. Kennedy assassination and related events
|
| WLW/Cincinnati, OH
|
Government Under Law
|
| KSTP/St Paul, MN
|
Open Line, for its promotion of public discussion on important issues, in particular claims of subversives at the University of Minnesota
|
| NBC
|
American Revolution '63
|
| Mr. Novak
|
| NBC Radio
|
The Sunday Night Monitor
|
| WNBC-TV/New York, NY and NBC Radio
|
The Dorothy Gordon Forum
|
| CBS
|
CBS Reports, for the 3-part report "Storm Over the Supreme Court", narrated by Eric Sevareid
|
| The Danny Kaye Show
|
| CBS and Dr. Frank Stanton
|
Town Meeting of the World
|
| Eric Sevareid (CBS News)
|
Personal Award for Sevareid's editorial commentaries
|
| Voice of America and Edward R. Murrow
|
Institutional Award to VOA and Murrow, its former director, for its contributions "to deepened international understanding"
|
| ABC
|
Saga of Western Man
|
| WGN-TV/Chicago, IL
|
Treetop House, a children's show hosted by Anita Klever
|
1964
1965
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence
|
| CBS
|
A Charlie Brown Christmas[4]
|
| CBS Reports, for the report "KKK - The Invisible Empire"[5]
|
| The Mystery of Stonehenge
|
| National Drivers Test
|
| CBS Radio
|
Music 'Til Dawn
|
| CBS and NBC
|
Joint Institutional Award for the specials My Name Is Barbra (CBS), The Julie Andrews Show (NBC), and Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music (NBC)
|
| ABC
|
A Visit to Washington with Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, On Behalf of a More Beautiful America
|
| KTLA/Los Angeles, CA
|
Institutional Award for the station's coverage of the Watts riots
|
| National Educational Television
|
Institutional Award for the network's "distinguished performance in educational broadcasting," specifically citing History of the Negro People, American Crises, and Changing World: South African Essay
|
| WCCO Radio/Minneapolis, MN
|
Institutional Award for the station's public service coverage during natural disasters
|
| Xerox Corporation
|
Institutional Award for its promoting of "international understanding" through presentations of "The Making of the President - 1964, Let My People Go, The Louvre, and the illuminating series on the United Nations"
|
| Elmo Ellis (WSB Radio/Atlanta, GA)
|
Personal Award for Ellis' editorials, book reviews, and other features for WSB
|
| Frank McGee (NBC)
|
Personal Award for McGee's special event news coverage
|
| Morley Safer (CBS News)
|
Personal Award for Safer's reports from the Vietnam War
|
1966
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence
|
| ABC
|
A Christmas Memory
|
| The Wide World of Sports
|
| WTMJ-TV/Milwaukee, WI
|
A Polish Millennium Concert
|
| NBC
|
American White Paper: Organized Crime in the United States, produced by Fred Freed
|
| The Bell Telephone Hour
|
| Siberia: A Day in Irkutsk, produced by George A. Vicas and hosted by Kenneth Bernstein
|
| The World of Stuart Little[6]
|
| WNBC-TV/New York, NY and NBC Radio
|
The Dorothy Gordon Youth Forum, for "Youth and Narcotics - Who Has the Answer?"
|
| WBKB-TV/Chicago, IL
|
Kup's Show, for its presentation on the dangers of narcotics
|
| WGN-TV/Chicago, IL
|
Artists' Showcase
|
| KRON-TV/San Francisco, CA
|
Assignment Four, a local documentary series
|
| CBS
|
National Geographic Specials
|
| Tom H. John (CBS)
|
Personal Award for John's art and set design on the CBS specials Color Me Barbra, Death of a Salesman, and The Strollin' Twenties
|
| CBS News
|
CBS Reports, for "The Poisoned Air" (narrated by Daniel Schorr and produced by Jack Beck)
|
| Harry Reasoner (CBS News)
|
Personal Award for Reasoner's reportage and essay presentations
|
| WLIB/New York, NY
|
Community Opinion, a program that provided platforms for and information to residents of New York's Harlem neighborhood
|
| National Educational Television
|
Institutional Award for excellence in educational television programming, citing NET Playhouse, NET Journal, and U.S.A.: The Arts
|
| Edwin Newman (NBC Radio Network)
|
Personal Award for Newman's commentary work
|
1967
1968
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence
|
| ABC
|
Award for coverage of the 1968 Winter and Summer Olympics, highlighting the work of Roone Arledge and Chris Schenkel
|
| Institutional Award for its presentation of The Sense of Wonder, How Life Begins, Sharks: The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, The Road to Gettysburg, Hemingway's Spain, and The Secret of Michelangelo: Every Man’s Dream, documentaries with "exceptional inventiveness"
|
| CBS News
|
CBS Reports: Hunger in America (reported by Charles Kuralt and David Culhane[7])
|
| WJR/Detroit, MI
|
Kaleidoscope, hosted by Mike Whorf
|
| National Educational Television
|
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood[8]
|
| Playhouse
|
| Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc.
|
One Nation Indivisible (hosted by Roderick MacLeish[9])
|
| Charles Kuralt
|
Personal Award for Kuralt's work on CBS News' On the Road
|
| Dr. Leonard Reiffel (WEEI/Boston, MA)
|
Personal Award for Dr Reiffel's work on WEEI's The World Tomorrow
|
| Robert Cromie and WTTW-TV/Chicago, IL
|
Book Beat
|
| NBC Radio
|
Second Sunday
|
| WQXR/New York, NY
|
Steinway Hall
|
1969
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