List of Peabody Award winners (1950–1959) explained

Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions.

1950

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Metropolitan Opera, ABC Radio[1] Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts
Reporting and Interpretation of News
Saturday at the Zoo, a visit to the Bronx Zoo
Jimmy Durante, NBC Television a Personal Award
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
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
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]
Hear It Now
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

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Celanese Theatre
Letter from America
The Nation's Nightmare, a documentary on organized crime produced by Irving Gitlin
See It Now
KPOJ Radio, Portland, Oregon
Bob and Ray
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

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a Personal Award for News
The New York City Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
The Standard Symphony
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

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BBC Television, London, UK Promotion of International Understanding Through Television, Coverage of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
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"
a Personal Award
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

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Disneyland
Man's Right to Knowledge
Adventure
CBS Television Omnibus
CBS Television The Search
Personal Award, Radio-Television News
a Personal Award for Pauline Frederick at the U.N.
a Personal Award
KGAK Radio, Gallup, New Mexico The Navajo Hour
Industry on Parade
Conversation
WJAR-TV, Providence, Rhode Island Hurricane Carol
Personal Award for Radio Music, on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts[5]

1955

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The Voice of Firestone
Dr. Frank Baxter, KNXT-TV, Los Angeles, California a Personal Award, Television Education
Lassie
a Personal Award, Television Entertainment
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
Biographies in Sound
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
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
Assignment: India, narrated by Chester B. Bowles
WMT-TV, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Television Local Public Service

1956

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Edward P. Morgan and the News
Television News for Coverage of the National Political Conventions
The Ed Sullivan Show
CBS Television You Are There
CBS Television World in Crisis
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
Youth Wants To Know
a Personal Award for Requiem for a Heavyweight
The Secret Life of Danny Kaye (an episode of See It Now[6])
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

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Prologue '58
Radio and Television News Including Face the Nation, See It Now, The Twentieth Century, and This is New York
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Television The Last Word
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 Educational TV Project, Know Your Schools
NBC Television The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
NBC Television Hallmark Hall of Fame
Boston Conference on Programming and the High Quality of Its Public Service Broadcasting
You Are the Jury
WQED-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The Heritage Series

1958

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Easy as ABC
College News Conference
The Hidden Revolution
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
The Huntley-Brinkley Report
The Steve Allen Show
NBC Television Continental Classroom
NBC Television M.D. International
NBC Television An Evening with Fred Astaire
The Fountain of Youth (The Colgate Palmolive Theatre)
Little Moon of Alban (Hallmark Hall of Fame)
The Standard School Broadcast
WGN-TV, Chicago, Illinois The Blue Fairy
WNEW Radio, New York, New York Radio News

1959

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WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and The World Affairs Council of BostonDecisions, moderated by Christian A. Herter Jr.
NBC RadioFamily Living '59, moderated by Arlene Francis
NBCThe Bell Telephone Hour
David Susskind (NBC)Personal Award for Susskind's production of The Moon and Sixpence
WGN-TV/Chicago, ILGreat Music from Chicago, featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
WCCO Radio/Minneapolis, MNSeparate awards for local public service
WDSU-TV/New Orleans, LA
ABCKhrushchev Abroad
CBSThe 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. MurrowThe Lost Class of '59
CBS Radio NetworkThe 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 and References

  1. http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/details.php?id=968 Peabody 1950
  2. News: 1950-09-25 . Radio: The Accused . en-US . Time . 2023-11-17 . 0040-781X.
  3. News: Fowler . Glenn . 1989-10-10 . Ira Hirschmann Is Dead at 88; Executive and Leading Nazi Foe . 2024-07-05 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  4. http://s3.amazonaws.com/dfc_attachments/public/documents/3156837/Pastoral_Highlights_of_Morningside_.pdf
  5. http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/details.php?id=1025 Goldovsky 1954
  6. Web site: SEE IT NOW: THE SECRET LIFE OF DANNY KAYE (TV). 2020-12-28.
  7. https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=cbs&p=21&item=T78:0569