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Lear, ITVS named Individual, Institutional WinnersThe Peabody Awards Board of Jurors have selected Norman Lear to receive an Individual Award and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) an Institutional Award for
- Institutional Award: Independent Television Service (ITVS)
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)....
Read More » - Institutional Award: National Educational Television (NET) for Excellence in Educational Television Programming
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...
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Peabody launches Media CenterPeabody is launching the Peabody Media Center, a scholarly research center and digital media production arm of the prestigious Peabody Awards. The announcement was made
Complete 75th Annual Peabody Awards (May 21, 2016)33 recipients of the 75th Annual Peabody Awards were presented with awards on May 31, 2016 at Cipriani Wall Street® in New York City. The
- Institutional Award: Afropop Worldwide
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....
Read More » - Institutional Award: Doctor Who
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: Michael Apted's 'Up' Series
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: Austin City Limits
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: Hearst-Argyle Television: Commitment 2008
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: Turner Classic Movies
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: Nightline
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....
Read More » - Institutional Award: Youth Radio
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: WGBH
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: GMA Network for Investigative Reporting
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: The Discovery Networks
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: KOMO-TV for Excellence in local television programming as represented by "War on Children," "Earth Agenda: Power of Bears," "The Return of the Eagle," and "Lolita: Spirit in the Water"
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: BBC Radio
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: C-SPAN
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: Armed Forces Radio and Television Service on the Occasion of Its 50th Anniversary
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,...
Read More » - Institutional Award: WRAL Environmental Reporting
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: Cable News Network (CNN) for Its Coverage of the Soviet Coup
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: The Southern Center for International Studies
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: Cable News Network (CNN) for Its Coverage of the Persian Gulf War
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: Metropolitan Opera Saturday Afternoon Broadcasts
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,...
Read More » - Institutional Award: KPAL Radio for Overall Programming for Children
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,...
Read More » - Institutional Award: Cable News Network (CNN) for Coverage of the Stock Market Crash
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: CBS Television and Hallmark Hall of Fame
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: The Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis for Their Overall Programming
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: WGBH Radio for Overall Programming and Its Leadership in State-of-the-Art Broadcasting
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: WFMT Radio and Raymond Nordstrand for Fine Arts Radio Programming
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: Cable News Network (CNN) for Significant News and Information Programming
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: The Grand Ole Opry
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: WSMV-TV for a Series of Significant Television Documentaries
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: KATU-TV for a Series of Significant Television Documentaries
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: WNCN Radio for Overall Performance as Exemplified by "Conversations with Horowitz"
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....
Read More » - Institutional Award: WMUK for Live Radio Dramas
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: WGMS and WGMS-FM for Overall Efforts to Provide Outstanding Radio Entertainment, "The Collector's Shelf" and "200 Years of Music in America"
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: KDKB Radio for Outstanding Contributions to the Community It Serves Through Its Superior Overall Public Service Programming
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: WMAL Radio for Overall Excellence in the Radio Documentary as Exemplified by "Suffer The Little Children" and "The Legend of the Bermuda Triangle"
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: WTOP-TV for Overall Public Service Effort with Particular Reference to "Harambee: For My People." and "Everywoman: The Hidden World"
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: WCKT-TV for Compiling an Envious Record of Outstanding Investigative Reporting during 1975
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: WCVB-TV for Overall Programming Excellence
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,...
Read More » - Institutional Award: The Standard School Broadcast for Forty-Seven Years of Continuous Educational Radio Service to Citizens of the Far West
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...
Read More » - Institutional Award: NBC Television for "The Execution of Private Slovik," "The Law," and "IBM Presents Clarence Darrow"
This Peabody recognition is being made to NBC Television for its outstanding contribution of dramatic programs which were skillfully performed, handsomely produced and well written,...
Read More » - Institutional Award: National Public Affairs Center for Television (NPACT)
NPACT (The National Public Affairs Center for Television) has been the primary national producer of public affairs programming for the Public Broadcasting Service’s member stations....
Read More » - Institutional Award: ABC, CBS, NBC Television for Outstanding Contributions to Entertainment Through an Exceptional Year of Televised Drama
To the three commercial national television networks, a joint Peabody Award for their outstanding contributions to entertainment through an exceptional year of televised drama. In...
Read More » - Institutional Award: KNXT-TV for "Learning Can Be Fun" and "Dusty's Treehouse"
To station KNXT, CBS in Los Angeles, a George Foster Peabody Award for outstanding educational programming for children as represented by Learning Can Be Fun...
Read More » - Institutional Award: NBC Television for "The Borrowers" (Hallmark Hall of Fame) and "Street of the Flower Boxes" (NBC Children's Theatre)
To NBC Television, a Peabody Award for meritorious achievement in the area of youth and children’s television programming, especially for its presentation of two important...
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