Personal Award: David Brinkley
There are noble American institutions like elected government, free education, baseball, and hot dogs. Television news has become an institution as well, and within it some luminaries stand out. David…
To Save Our Schools, To Save Our Children
The quality of education provided our children is an issue that strikes at the heart of the American democratic system. Concern for the health and future of universal, free public…
Eighth Decade Consortium: “Fed Up With Fear”
Fed Up With Fear was produced by five television stations which joined together as The Eighth Decade Consortium. It sought to show how the citizens of five diverse communities are…
Personal Award: Richard S. Salant
A personal Peabody goes to a distinguished lawyer turned newsman, Richard S. Salant. In recognition of his leadership at CBS News, and also in recognition of his staunch defense of…
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 is double impressive to note…
“Medical Viewpoint” and “Pearl Harbor, Lest We Forget/Requiem for the USA”
A Peabody Award seeks to recognize service to the public above and beyond that which a station would normally feel compelled to give and which the station’s resources would normally…
Institutional Award: Edward R. Murrow and Voice of America for Radio Contribution to International Understanding
Voice Of America, the broadcast service of the U.S. Information Agency, broadcasts 794 program hours per week in 37 languages, everywhere in the world, to peoples of vastly different histories,…
“Democracy Is You” for Radio Local Public Service
Since 1948, station KIRO (CBS), Seattle, Washington, has broadcast a community development program entitled, Democracy Is You. In cooperation with the University of Washington, this station has developed community rehabilitation…
Industry On Parade
The first television program to present industrial films planned especially for television, and utilizing the best of newsreel techniques, Industry on Parade, through some 900 sequences carried by over 200…
BBC Television for Promotion of International Understanding Through Television, Coverage of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Institutional Award: BBC Television for Promotion of International Understanding Through Television, Coverage of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The maximum congregation of Westminster Abbey is 40,000. Because of the…