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Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions.
1960s
1960
Recipient
Area of Excellence
NBC
Award for the
White Paper series of news specials
The Shari Lewis Show
The Texaco Huntley-Brinkley Report
CBS
Award for coverage of the
1960 Winter and
Summer Olympics
CBS Reports , for
Harvest of Shame
G.E. College Bowl
The Fabulous Fifties , a revue produced by
Leland Hayward
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
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
The Bell Telephone Hour
Siberia : A Day in
Irkutsk
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
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"
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
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
WJR /Detroit, MI
Kaleidoscope
National Educational Television
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
[7]
Playhouse
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company , Inc.
One Nation Indivisible
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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