List of Peabody Award winners (1960–1969)
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Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions.
1960s
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rowspan="3"|NBC
|Award for the White Paper series of news specials |
The Shari Lewis Show |
The Texaco Huntley-Brinkley Report |
rowspan="4"|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
|rowspan="4"|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 [https://www.wnyc.org/series/the-singing-lady The Singing Lady] |
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WNYC/New York, NY
|[https://www.wnyc.org/series/readers-almanac 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 |
rowspan="3"|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 |
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 |
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CBS |
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 |
Official Films Inc. |
WNDT/New York, NY
|Books for Our Time, hosted by August Heckscher II |
WMAQ/Chicago, IL |
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Exploring |
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color |
NBC Radio Network |
William R. McAndrew (NBC News)
|Personal Award for McAndrew's "vision and leadership" as NBC News' Executive VP |
WGBH-TV/Boston, MA
|[http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog?f%5Baccess%5D%5B%5D=All+Records&f%5Bseries_title%5D%5B%5D=Elliot+Norton+Reviews 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 [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001110146 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
|[https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/3016 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{{cite web | url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c88s4r9k/entire_text/ | title=Finding Aid for the University Extension. University of California Radio Service. Texts of Radio Broadcasts. 1932-1979. }} |
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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 |
rowspan="2"|NBC
|[https://www.c-span.org/video/?473375-3/the-american-revolution-63-part-1 American Revolution '63] |
Mr. Novak |
NBC Radio |
WNBC-TV/New York, NY and NBC Radio |
rowspan="2"|CBS
|CBS Reports, for the 3-part report "Storm Over the Supreme Court" |
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 |
WGN-TV/Chicago, IL
|Treetop House |
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Networks and the broadcasting industry
|Award for "inescapably confronting the American public with the realities of racial discontent" |
CBS
|CBS Reports, highlighting an interview with Walter Lippmann |
Intertel (Council of the International Television Federation)
|Institutional Award for contribution to international understanding |
WBKB-TV/Chicago, IL
|Off the Cuff |
Burr Tillstrom
|Personal Award for Tillstrom's "hand ballet" interpretation of the Berlin Wall's human impact for That Was The Week That Was[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCRvarruS9g "Burr Tillstrom's 'Berlin Wall'" on YouTube] (accessed 2/16/2015) |
Julia Child (WGBH-TV/Boston, MA)
|Personal Award for Child's work on The French Chef[https://www.nationalbook.org/people/julia-child/ Julia Child - National Book Foundation] |
William H. Lawrence (ABC)
|Personal Award for Lawrence's reporting, analysis, and commentary work |
NBC
|The Louvre, produced by Lucy Jarvis and narrated by Charles Boyer |
NBC and Robert Saudek |
Joyce Hall (NBC)
|Personal Award for Hall's work as "an enlightened patron of the television arts" through Hallmark Hall of Fame |
WRVR-FM/New York, NY
|Riverside Radio |
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|A Charlie Brown Christmas[https://schulzmuseum.org/timeline/december-9-1965/ December 9, 1965 - Charles M. Schulz Museum] |
CBS Reports, for the report "[https://archive.org/details/kukluxklantheinvisibleempire_201505 KKK - The Invisible Empire]"[https://www.c-span.org/classroom/document/?6930 History of the Ku Klux Klan|C-SPAN Classroom] |
[https://archive.org/details/themysteryofstonehenge The Mystery of Stonehenge] |
National Drivers Test |
CBS Radio |
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 [http://americanarchive.org/catalog?f%5Bseries_titles%5D%5B%5D=History+of+the+Negro+People&f%5Baccess_types%5D%5B%5D=online History of the Negro People], [http://americanarchive.org/catalog?f%5Bseries_titles%5D%5B%5D=America%27s+Crises&f%5Baccess_types%5D%5B%5D=all American Crises], and [http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_EBD4E4A440A141048C58F6FBE17B363B 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 |
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The Wide World of Sports |
WTMJ-TV/Milwaukee, WI
|A Polish Millennium Concert |
rowspan="4"|NBC
|American White Paper: Organized Crime in the United States |
The Bell Telephone Hour |
Siberia: A Day in Irkutsk |
The World of Stuart Little[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000527/1967/1/ Peabody Awards (1967) - IMDb] |
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, [http://americanarchive.org/catalog?f%5Bseries_titles%5D%5B%5D=NET+Journal&f%5Baccess_types%5D%5B%5D=online NET Journal], and U.S.A.: The Arts |
Edwin Newman (NBC Radio Network)
|Personal Award for Newman's commentary work |
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ABC
|Africa |
rowspan="2"|NBC
|An Evening at Tanglewood |
Meet the Press |
NBC Radio |
NBC Radio and Elie Abel |
rowspan="3"|CBS |
CBS Children's Film Festival |
The Ed Sullivan Show, in recognition of its 20 years of "presenting a broad spectrum of entertainment" |
Eric Sevareid (CBS News)
|Personal Award for Sevareid's news analysis and commentary |
WIS-TV/Columbia, SC
|Mr. Knozit |
Bob Hope
|Personal Award in honor of Hope's 30th anniversary in broadcast entertainment |
Dr. James R. Killian, Jr.
|Personal Award to the chairman of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, whose recommendations led to the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting |
WBBM-TV/Chicago, IL
|The Opportunity Line, a series promoting employment opportunities in the Chicago area |
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|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 Culhanehttps://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=charles+kuralt&p=9&item=T77:0042) |
WJR/Detroit, MI
|Kaleidoscope, hosted by Mike Whorf |
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|Mister Rogers' Neighborhood[https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-radio/2018/04/19/Fred-Rogers-Company-Peabody-Award/stories/201804190108 2018 Peabody Awards honor The Fred Rogers Company|Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] |
Playhouse |
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc.
|One Nation Indivisible (hosted by Roderick MacLeishhttps://search.worldcat.org/title/One-nation-indivisible/oclc/44497080) |
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 |
WQXR/New York, NY
|Steinway Hall |
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Who Killed Lake Erie? |
NBC Radio Network
|"On Trial: The Man in the Middle," an episode of Second Sunday |
WLIB/New York, NY
|Higher Horizons |
Voice of America
|Institutional Award for "promotion of international understanding" |
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|[https://archive.org/details/jtreel1 J.T.] (from the CBS Children's Hour) |
[https://archive.org/details/thejapanese The Japanese] |
KQED/San Francisco, CA
|Newsroom |
Bing Crosby
|Personal Award in recognition of Crosby's entertainment career |
Chet Huntley
|Personal Award for Huntley's "major and always dependable contribution to radio and television for over 35 years" |
Curt Gowdy
|Personal Award to "television's most versatile sportscaster" |
Frank Reynolds
|Personal Award for Reynolds' anchor and commentary work on ABC Evening News |
Tom Pettit
|Personal Award for Pettit's investigative reportage for NBC News |
National Educational Television
|Sesame Street[https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/24/archives/report-card-on-sesame-street-sesame-street.html Report Card On Sesame Street - The New York Times][https://time.com/6258549/sesame-street-time-cover-1970/ Who's Afraid of Big, Bad TV?|TIME][https://thenerdstash.com/sesame-street-the-musical-is-arriving-off-broadway-this-fall/ ‘Sesame Street: the Musical’ is Arriving Off-Broadway This Fall|The Nerd Stash] |
WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and KCET/Los Angeles, CA (airing on National Educational Television) |[http://openvault.wgbh.org/collections/advocates/full-program-video The Advocates] |
WFBM-TV/Indianapolis, IN
|The Negro in Indianapolis, a series of programs examining and promoting race relations in the city |
WRNG/Atlanta, GA
|When Will It End? |