Today's Institutional Peabody Award was brought to you by the number 50, for 50 years of Sesame Street educating and entertaining children in the U.S...

The philosopher John Dewey once said that "artists are the real purveyors of the news," an idea that resides at the heart of Kartemquin Films....

If any organization can claim a foundational place in the flourishing of documentary film over the past generation, it is the Independent Television Service (ITVS)....

A special Peabody Award is richly deserved by the National Educational Television Network and its producing stations for swimming valiantly against the current which seems...

On the radio continuously since 1988, Afropop Worldwide revels in and reveals music that Africa has inspired in its diverse homelands and around the globe....

Much like its eponymous character, Doctor Who has gone through numerous iterations since its creation in 1963. Including its original run of 26 seasons, various...

For nearly half a century, director Michael Apted has followed the life progress of 14 British children in his acclaimed Up series. Just 7 years...

What began in 1976 as a showcase for music of the Lone Star State—Tejano, Western swing, Texas blues, outlaw country, rock-‘n’-roll—has long since evolved into...

Formed in 1997 with the merger of Hearst Broadcasting and Argyle Television, Inc., this group now owns 26 television stations that collectively reach more than...

From television’s earliest days, when movies filled countless late-night hours and weekend afternoons, to the present, when high-definition screens and “home theatre” surround sound enhances...

It began with a different anchor and a different title on November 8, 1979, four days after the seizure of the American Embassy in Teheran....

For a decade Youth Radio, based in Berkeley, California has trained thousands of teenagers, the vast majority from low-income homes, in skills related to broadcast...

The call letters WGBH are among the most familiar in all of broadcasting and central to the Public Broadcasting Service. From the first radio broadcast...

The heart wrenching stories exposed by GMA Network represent a comprehensive and on-going effort to depict the complexity of social problems in a region rife...

Some years ago, John S. Hendricks had a vision of using cable television to inform and educate. Since then, the promise of cable as a...

One goal of the Peabody Awards is to identify and recognize excellence in local television. Local service remains a fundamental and critical element of our...

For more than six decades, BBC Radio has been a source of information, education and entertainment for English-speaking audiences both in Britain and abroad. It...

For more than a decade, C-SPAN has brought the day-to-day workings of Congress into millions of American homes. The network boasts no fancy production or...

For half a century, the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service has provided a full and free flow of news and information to American military,...

The destruction of our natural environment requires vigilance from all quarters, but especially from local media. The long-term commitment demonstrated by WRAL-TV provides a model...

On Sunday, August 18, 1991 CNN broke the news to the world of an attempted takeover of the government of the Soviet Union. From that...

Historians in the future will likely be very grateful to those persons at the Southern Center for international Studies in Atlanta for the decision to...

In reviewing literally thousands of hours of programming in the past few years, Peabody screening committees have made a remarkable discovery. Consistently, the best in...

In scarcely more than a decade, CNN has matured from a cable curiosity to become an international service of inestimable importance. Never was that role...

It is altogether fitting that we share the Peabody golden anniversary celebration with another broadcast institution: the Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts. On December 8, 1989,...

Many people have asked, in the past few years, whatever happened to children’s radio? Well, it is alive, well and thriving in Little Rock, Arkansas,...

Peabody recognition goes to the Cable News Network for its excellence in live coverage of important breaking news stories. No finer example of this excellence...

The name Hallmark Hall of Fame has come to symbolize excellence of the highest order in the presentation of dramatic programs on television—in this case...

The Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis is a public charitable trust established to promote the understanding and appreciation of the fine and performing arts. Each...

WGBH Radio has an audience of nearly 350,000 listeners each week. This means that it is one of the most listened-to public radio stations in...

If Ray Nordstrand has had a guiding principle for managing WFMT, Chicago’s—and now the nation’s and the world’s—fine music station, it would probably be “respect...

In the view of the Peabody Board, CNN has become an integral part of the lives of millions of Americans by providing significant, reliable, up-to-the-minute...

If there are such things as American “institutions” the Grand Ole Opry is certainly one. For 58 years the Opry has filled the airwaves with...

WSMV in Nashville, Tennessee, has demonstrated that it is a television station with an outstanding news operation. There are many good news operations, there are...

KATU-TV, with an excellent news staff, has not limited its documentary inquiries into purely local matters but has sought to determine such things as whether...

WNCN Radio has won the respect of music lovers in the world’s largest urban area, New York City, for its consistently high quality 24-hour service....

Radio station WMUK in Kalamazoo, Michigan was invited to present two live radio dramas at last summer’s Super Summer Festival.The results were highly gratifying. To...

WGMS and WGMS-FM have brought listeners in the greater Washington area an exceptional series of musical treats with The Collector’s Shelf and 200 Years of...

A George Foster Peabody Award to radio station KDKB, Mesa, Arizona, for its overall programming. In making this award, the Board would like to call...

WMAL Radio in Washington has demonstrated that the radio documentary is not only still alive, but is doing exceptionally well. Two of their best efforts...

In the opinion of the Peabody Board, WTOP-TV, Washington, has provided a distinctly meritorious service to the community it serves particularly with two outstanding program...

WCKT, Miami, has a long and outstanding record of investigative news reporting. Under the guidance of its distinguished news director, Gene Strul, WCKT has, in...

A Peabody Award to WCVB, Boston, for overall programming excellence. From Kafka’s play, The Penal Colony, performed in Spanish with English sub-titles, to Boston Legacy,...

The Standard School Broadcast’s 47 years on the air throughout the Western states is an achievement to which any broadcaster could point with pride. It...