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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 |
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| 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 | |
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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] | |
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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 | |
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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 |
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| 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 | |
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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 | |
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| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and The World Affairs Council of Boston | Decisions, moderated by Christian A. Herter Jr. |
| NBC Radio | Family Living '59, moderated by Arlene Francis |
| 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, featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| 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, an episode of CBS Reports hosted by Howard K. Smith[7] |
| Small World, hosted by Edward R. Murrow |
| 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 | |
