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Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions.
1950
Recipient
Area of Excellence
Metropolitan Opera , ABC Radio [ 1]
Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts
ABC Radio, Elmer Davis
Reporting and Interpretation of News
ABC Television
Saturday at the Zoo , a visit to the Bronx Zoo
Jimmy Durante , NBC Television
a Personal Award
NBC Radio
Halls of Ivy
NBC Radio
The Quick and the Dead , a show on the nuclear age produced by Fred Friendly and starring Bob Hope and William L. Laurence
NBC Television
Zoo Parade
Radio Free Europe
Contribution to International Understanding
WBBM Radio , Chicago, Illinois
The Quiet Answer , Public Service by a Regional Station, for a documentary series on race relations
Honorable Mentions
ABC, Its President, Robert E. Kintner , and his associates, Robert Saudek and Joseph McDonald
for Their Courageous Stand in Resisting Organized Pressures and Their Reaffirmation of Basic American Principles. Kintner continued to employ Gypsy Rose Lee as the host of the game show What Makes You Tick? after Lee's appearance in Red Channels .[ 2]
CBS Radio
Hear It Now
Mutual Broadcasting System and United Nations Radio
Contribution to International Understanding, Pursuit of Peace , produced by Norman Corwin , particularly the premiere program, "Document A/777"
Providence Journal , Its Editor and Publisher, Sevellon Brown , and Ben Bagdikian , Reporter
for the Series of Articles Analyzing the Broadcasts of Top Commentators
WAAM-TV , Baltimore, Maryland
The Johns Hopkins Science Review
WABF-FM , Ira Hirschmann , New York, New York
Entertainment (Music), for presentations of classical music[ 3]
WFPL-FM , Louisville, Kentucky
Public Service by a Local Station
WNYC Radio , New York, New York
Contribution to International Understanding for United Nations Coverage
1951
Recipient
Area of Excellence
ABC Television
Celanese Theatre
BBC , London , UK, and Alistair Cooke
Letter from America
CBS Radio
The Nation's Nightmare , a documentary on organized crime produced by Irving Gitlin
CBS Television, Edward R. Murrow
See It Now
KPOJ Radio, Portland, Oregon
Careers Unlimited and Civic Theatre on the Air , Meritorious Local Public Service by Radio. Careers Unlimited , a partnership with Portland Public Schools , the Exchange Club , and the Oregon State Employment Service , provided resources on employment for youth. Civic Theatre on the Air worked with a local Community theatre
NBC Radio
Bob and Ray
NBC Television , Gian Carlo Menotti
Amahl and the Night Visitors
WCAU-TV , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
What in the World?
WQXR Radio , New York, New York
New York Times Youth Forum
WSB Radio and Television , Atlanta, Georgia
The Pastor's Study (radio) and Our World Today (television), Meritorious Regional Public Service by Radio and Television. Arthur Vann Gibson of Morningside Presbyterian Church hosted The Pastor's Study .[ 4]
1952
1953
Recipient
Area of Excellence
BBC Television , London, UK
Promotion of International Understanding Through Television, Coverage of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Imogene Coca , NBC Television
a Personal Award
Gerald W. Johnson , WAAM-TV , Baltimore, Maryland
a Personal Award
KABC Radio , Los Angeles, California
Chet Huntley for Radio News
KNXT-TV , Los Angeles, California
"Cavalcade of Books "
Edward R. Murrow , CBS
a Personal Award
NBC Television
NBC Television Opera Theatre
NBC Television
Television Playhouse
NBC Television
Mr. Wizard
WBAW , Barnwell, South Carolina
Church of Your Choice , Public Service by a Local Station
WCBS-TV , New York, New York
Camera Three
WSB Radio and Television , Atlanta, Georgia
Removing the Rust From Radio and You and Your Health , Public Service by a Regional Radio-Television Station
1954
Recipient
Area of Excellence
ABC Television
Disneyland
CBS Radio
Man's Right to Knowledge
CBS Television
Adventure
CBS Television
Omnibus
CBS Television
The Search
John Daly , ABC Television
Personal Award, Radio-Television News
Pauline Frederick , NBC Radio
a Personal Award for Pauline Frederick at the U.N.
George Gobel , NBC Television
a Personal Award
KGAK Radio , Gallup, New Mexico
The Navajo Hour
National Association of Manufacturers
Industry on Parade
NBC Radio
Conversation
WJAR-TV , Providence, Rhode Island
Hurricane Carol
Boris Goldovsky , ABC , Metropolitan Opera
Personal Award for Radio Music, on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts [ 5]
1955
Recipient
Area of Excellence
ABC Radio and Television
The Voice of Firestone
Dr. Frank Baxter , KNXT-TV , Los Angeles, California
a Personal Award, Television Education
CBS Television
Lassie
Perry Como , NBC Television
a Personal Award, Television Entertainment
Douglas Edwards , CBS Television
a Personal Award, Television News
Jackie Gleason , CBS Television
a Personal Award, Television Entertainment
Quincy Howe , ABC Radio and Television
a Personal Award
KIRO Radio, Seattle, Washington
Democracy is You , Radio Local Public Service
NBC Radio
Biographies in Sound
NBC Television
Producers' Showcase , "with a special bow to Peter Pan "
Sylvester L. Weaver , NBC Radio and Television
a Personal Award for Pioneering Program Concepts
Honorable Mentions
CBS Television
Omnibus , for a series on the Adams political family
KFYO Radio , Lubbock, Texas
Local Public Service
KQED-TV , San Francisco, California
Television Local Public Service
NBC Television
Assignment: India , narrated by Chester B. Bowles
WMT-TV , Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Television Local Public Service
1956
1957
Recipient
Area of Excellence
ABC Television , John Charles Daly
Prologue '58
CBS Radio and Television
Radio and Television News Including Face the Nation , See It Now , The Twentieth Century , and This is New York
CBS Television
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Television
The Last Word
Bob Hope , NBC Television
a Personal Award
KING-TV , Seattle, Washington
Wunda Wunda
KLZ-TV , Denver, Colorado
Panorama
KPFA-FM , Berkeley, California
Local Radio Public Service
Louis M. Lyons , WGBH Radio and Television , Boston, Massachusetts
a Personal Award
NBC Radio and Television
NBC Educational TV Project, Know Your Schools
NBC Television
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
NBC Television
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc.
Boston Conference on Programming and the High Quality of Its Public Service Broadcasting
WKAR Radio , East Lansing, Michigan
You Are the Jury
WQED-TV , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Heritage Series
1958
1959
Recipient
Area of Excellence
WGBH-TV /Boston, MA and The World Affairs Council of Boston
Decisions , moderated by Christian A. Herter Jr.
NBC Radio
Family Living '59 , moderated by Arlene Francis
NBC
The Bell Telephone Hour
David Susskind (NBC )
Personal Award for Susskind's production of The Moon and Sixpence
WGN-TV /Chicago, IL
Great Music from Chicago , featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
WCCO Radio /Minneapolis, MN
Separate awards for local public service
WDSU-TV /New Orleans, LA
ABC
Khrushchev Abroad
CBS
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Population Explosion , an episode of CBS Reports hosted by Howard K. Smith [ 7]
Small World , hosted by Edward R. Murrow
CBS , Fred Friendly , and Edward R. Murrow
The Lost Class of '59
CBS Radio Network
The World Tonight
Dr. Frank Stanton (CBS )
Personal Award for Stanton's "courage, insight, and energy in fighting for the freedom of journalism on the air"
WNTA-TV /New York, NY (as flagship station of the NTA Film Network )
The Play of the Week
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