List of Peabody Award winners (1950–1959)
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 |
| Jimmy Durante, NBC Television | a Personal Award |
| NBC Radio | Halls of Ivy |
| NBC Radio | The Quick and the Dead, a documentary produced by Fred Friendly |
| NBC Television | Zoo Parade |
| Radio Free Europe | Contribution to International Understanding |
| WBBM Radio, Chicago, Illinois | The Quiet Answer, Public Service by a Regional Station |
| 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 |
| CBS Radio | Hear It Now |
| Mutual Broadcasting System and United Nations Radio | Contribution to International Understanding, Pursuit of Peace, produced by Norman Corwin |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 and Our World Today, Meritorious Regional Public Service by Radio and Television |
1952
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| ABC Radio, Martin Agronsky | News |
| CBS Radio | The New York City Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra |
| NBC Radio | The Standard Symphony |
| NBC Television | Meet the Press |
| NBC Television | Mister Peepers |
| NBC Television | Your Hit Parade |
| NBC Television | Ding Dong School |
| NBC Television | Victory at Sea |
| WAAM-TV (DuMont Network), Baltimore, Maryland | The Johns Hopkins Science Review |
| WEWS-TV, Cleveland, Ohio | Television Local Public Service |
| WIS Radio, Columbia, South Carolina | Regional Public Service, Including Promotion of International Understanding |
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 Radio, 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[2] |
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 |
| Sylvester L. Weaver, NBC Radio and Television | a Personal Award for Pioneering Program Concepts |
| Honorable Mentions | |
| CBS Television | Omnibus |
| KFYO Radio, Lubbock, Texas | Local Public Service |
| KQED-TV, San Francisco, California | Television Local Public Service |
| NBC Television | Assignment: India |
| WMT-TV, Cedar Rapids, Iowa | Television Local Public Service |
1956
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| ABC Radio | Edward P. Morgan and the News |
| ABC Television, John Charles Daly | Television News for Coverage of the National Political Conventions |
| CBS Television | The Ed Sullivan Show |
| CBS Television | You Are There |
| CBS Television | World in Crisis |
| Jack Gould | Personal Award for His Outstanding Contribution to Radio and Television Through His New York Times Writings |
| Mutual Broadcasting System and NBC Radio | The Bob and Ray Show |
| NBC Television | Youth Wants to Know |
| Rod Serling | a Personal Award for Requiem for a Heavyweight |
| UNICEF | The Secret Life of Danny Kaye |
| United Nations Radio and Television | Promotion of International Understanding |
| WNYC Radio, New York, New York | Books in Profile |
| WNYC Radio, New York, New York | Little Orchestra Society Concerts |
| WOW Radio and Television, Omaha, Nebraska | Regimented Raindrops |
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 |
| 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
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| ABC Radio and UNESCO | Easy as ABC |
| ABC Television | College News Conference |
| CBS Radio | The Hidden Revolution |
| CBS Television | Playhouse 90 |
| CBS Television | Television Public Service with Special Recognition Given to Dr. Frank Stanton |
| CBS Television | Lincoln Presents Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic |
| NBC News | The Huntley-Brinkley Report |
| NBC Television | The Steve Allen Show |
| NBC Television | Continental Classroom |
| NBC Television | M.D. International |
| NBC Television | An Evening with Fred Astaire |
| NBC Television, Orson Welles | The Fountain of Youth (The Colgate Palmolive Theatre) |
| NBC Television, James Costigan | Little Moon of Alban (Hallmark Hall of Fame) |
| Standard Oil Company of California | The Standard School Broadcast |
| WGN-TV, Chicago, Illinois | The Blue Fairy |
| WNEW Radio, New York, New York | Radio News |
1959
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and The World Affairs Council of Boston | Decisions |
| NBC Radio | Family Living '59 |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| Small World | |
| 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 |
Notes
- Peabody 1950 Archived 2010-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
- Goldovsky 1954 Archived 2010-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
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