Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions.
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| NBC | Award for the White Paper series of news specials |
| The Shari Lewis Show | |
| The Texaco Huntley-Brinkley Report | |
| CBS | Award for coverage of the 1960 Winter and Summer Olympics |
| CBS Reports , for Harvest of Shame | |
| G.E. College Bowl | |
| The Fabulous Fifties, a revue produced by Leland Hayward | |
| Dr. Frank Stanton (CBS) | Personal Award for Dr. Stanton's actions that led to the 1960 presidential debates |
| Broadcasting and Film Commission of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S. | Institutional Award for the programs Look Up and Live , Frontiers of Faith , Pilgrimage, and Talk-back |
| KPFK Radio/Los Angeles, CA | Separate Institutional Awards for the stations' locally produced programming |
| WCCO-TV/Minneapolis, MN | |
| WCKT-TV/Miami, FL | |
| WOOD Radio and WOOD-TV/Grand Rapids, MI | |
| Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network | Institutional Award for the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts |
| WQXR/New York, NY | Musical Spectaculars |
| Irene Wicker (WNYC/New York, NY) | Personal Award for Wicker's work on the children's radio program The Singing Lady |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| WNYC/New York, NY | The Reader's Almanac and Teen Age Book Talk |
| BBC Television | An Age of Kings , with recognition to National Educational Television, Metropolitan Broadcasting, individual stations, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and Humble Oil |
| NBC | David Brinkley's Journal |
| The Bob Newhart Show | |
| Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait, narrated by Martin Gabel with Lee J. Cobb as Van Gogh | |
| ABC | Expedition! |
| Capital Cities Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and executive producer Milton Fruchtman | Award for coverage of the trial of Adolf Eichmann and its summary documentary Verdict for Tomorrow: The Eichmann Trial on Television |
| CBS and Walter Lippman | Institutional Award for television contribution to international understanding |
| Fred W. Friendly (CBS) | Personal Award for Friendly's work in television journalism |
| WFMT/Chicago, IL | Institutional Award for fine arts entertainment |
| WRUL (Worldwide Broadcasting)/New York, NY | Institutional Award for contribution to international understanding for the station's coverage (in English and Spanish) of the United Nations' General Assembly proceedings |
| KSL-TV/Salt Lake City, UT | Let Freedom Ring, featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, starring Richard Boone, Laraine Day, Howard Keel, and Dan O'Herlihy and narrated by Richard L. Evans |
| Newton N. Minow | Personal Award to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| CBS | A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy |
| Carol Burnett (CBS) | Personal Award for Burnett's comedic performances |
| Walter Cronkite (CBS News) | Personal Award for Cronkite's work on The Twentieth Century , CBS Reports , and other work for CBS News |
| ABC | Adlai Stevenson Reports |
| WJR/Detroit, MI | Adventures in Good Music |
| Official Films Inc. | Biography |
| WNDT/New York, NY | Books for Our Time , hosted by August Heckscher II |
| WMAQ/Chicago, IL | Carnival of Books |
| NBC | The DuPont Show of the Week |
| Exploring | |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | |
| NBC Radio Network | The Eternal Light |
| William R. McAndrew (NBC News) | Personal Award for McAndrew's "vision and leadership" as NBC News' Executive VP |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | Elliot Norton Reviews , hosted by Elliot Norton |
| Television Information Office and National Association of Broadcasters | Institutional Award for the organizations' study of locally produced children's programming which resulted in the book For the Young Viewer: Television Programming for Children… at the Local Level |
| WQXR/New York, NY | Institutional Award for the station's news presentations in the midst of the New York City newspaper strike |
| KPIX-TV/San Francisco, CA | San Francisco Pageant , a series of historical documentaries profiling the city of San Francisco |
| KNX/Los Angeles, CA | Science Editor, produced by the University of California Extension [1] |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| Broadcasting industry of the United States | Award for coverage of the John F. Kennedy assassination and related events |
| WLW/Cincinnati, OH | Government Under Law |
| KSTP/St Paul, MN | Open Line, for its promotion of public discussion on important issues, in particular claims of subversives at the University of Minnesota |
| NBC | American Revolution '63 |
| Mr. Novak | |
| NBC Radio | The Sunday Night Monitor |
| WNBC-TV/New York, NY and NBC Radio | The Dorothy Gordon Forum |
| CBS | CBS Reports , for the 3-part report "Storm Over the Supreme Court", narrated by Eric Sevareid |
| The Danny Kaye Show | |
| CBS and Dr. Frank Stanton | Town Meeting of the World |
| Eric Sevareid (CBS News) | Personal Award for Sevareid's editorial commentaries |
| Voice of America and Edward R. Murrow | Institutional Award to VOA and Murrow, its former director, for its contributions "to deepened international understanding" |
| ABC | Saga of Western Man |
| WGN-TV/Chicago, IL | Treetop House, a children's show hosted by Anita Klever |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| Networks and the broadcasting industry | Award for "inescapably confronting the American public with the realities of racial discontent" |
| CBS | CBS Reports , highlighting an interview with Walter Lippmann |
| Intertel (Council of the International Television Federation) | Institutional Award for contribution to international understanding |
| WBKB-TV/Chicago, IL | Off the Cuff |
| Burr Tillstrom | Personal Award for Tillstrom's "hand ballet" interpretation of the Berlin Wall's human impact for That Was The Week That Was [2] |
| Julia Child (WGBH-TV/Boston, MA) | Personal Award for Child's work on The French Chef [3] |
| William H. Lawrence (ABC) | Personal Award for Lawrence's reporting, analysis, and commentary work |
| NBC | The Louvre, produced by Lucy Jarvis and narrated by Charles Boyer |
| NBC and Robert Saudek | Profile in Courage |
| Joyce Hall (NBC) | Personal Award for Hall's work as "an enlightened patron of the television arts" through Hallmark Hall of Fame |
| WRVR-FM/New York, NY | Riverside Radio |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| CBS | A Charlie Brown Christmas [4] |
| CBS Reports , for the report "KKK - The Invisible Empire" [5] | |
| The Mystery of Stonehenge | |
| National Drivers Test | |
| CBS Radio | Music 'Til Dawn |
| CBS and NBC | Joint Institutional Award for the specials My Name Is Barbra (CBS), The Julie Andrews Show (NBC), and Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music (NBC) |
| ABC | A Visit to Washington with Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, On Behalf of a More Beautiful America |
| KTLA/Los Angeles, CA | Institutional Award for the station's coverage of the Watts riots |
| National Educational Television | Institutional Award for the network's "distinguished performance in educational broadcasting," specifically citing History of the Negro People , American Crises , and Changing World: South African Essay |
| WCCO Radio/Minneapolis, MN | Institutional Award for the station's public service coverage during natural disasters |
| Xerox Corporation | Institutional Award for its promoting of "international understanding" through presentations of "The Making of the President - 1964, Let My People Go , The Louvre, and the illuminating series on the United Nations" |
| Elmo Ellis (WSB Radio/Atlanta, GA) | Personal Award for Ellis' editorials, book reviews, and other features for WSB |
| Frank McGee (NBC) | Personal Award for McGee's special event news coverage |
| Morley Safer (CBS News) | Personal Award for Safer's reports from the Vietnam War |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| ABC | A Christmas Memory |
| The Wide World of Sports | |
| WTMJ-TV/Milwaukee, WI | A Polish Millennium Concert |
| NBC | American White Paper: Organized Crime in the United States, produced by Fred Freed |
| The Bell Telephone Hour | |
| Siberia: A Day in Irkutsk , produced by George A. Vicas and hosted by Kenneth Bernstein | |
| The World of Stuart Little [6] | |
| WNBC-TV/New York, NY and NBC Radio | The Dorothy Gordon Youth Forum , for "Youth and Narcotics - Who Has the Answer?" |
| WBKB-TV/Chicago, IL | Kup's Show , for its presentation on the dangers of narcotics |
| WGN-TV/Chicago, IL | Artists' Showcase |
| KRON-TV/San Francisco, CA | Assignment Four , a local documentary series |
| CBS | National Geographic Specials |
| Tom H. John (CBS) | Personal Award for John's art and set design on the CBS specials Color Me Barbra , Death of a Salesman , and The Strollin' Twenties |
| CBS News | CBS Reports , for "The Poisoned Air" (narrated by Daniel Schorr and produced by Jack Beck) |
| Harry Reasoner (CBS News) | Personal Award for Reasoner's reportage and essay presentations |
| WLIB/New York, NY | Community Opinion, a program that provided platforms for and information to residents of New York's Harlem neighborhood |
| National Educational Television | Institutional Award for excellence in educational television programming, citing NET Playhouse , NET Journal , and U.S.A.: The Arts |
| Edwin Newman (NBC Radio Network) | Personal Award for Newman's commentary work |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| ABC | Africa |
| NBC | An Evening at Tanglewood |
| Meet the Press | |
| NBC Radio | The Eternal Light |
| NBC Radio and Elie Abel | The World and Washington |
| CBS | CBS Playhouse |
| CBS Children's Film Festival | |
| The Ed Sullivan Show , in recognition of its 20 years of "presenting a broad spectrum of entertainment" | |
| Eric Sevareid (CBS News) | Personal Award for Sevareid's news analysis and commentary |
| WIS-TV/Columbia, SC | Mr. Knozit |
| Bob Hope | Personal Award in honor of Hope's 30th anniversary in broadcast entertainment |
| Dr. James R. Killian, Jr. | Personal Award to the chairman of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, whose recommendations led to the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting |
| WBBM-TV/Chicago, IL | The Opportunity Line, a series promoting employment opportunities in the Chicago area |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| ABC | Award for coverage of the 1968 Winter and Summer Olympics, highlighting the work of Roone Arledge and Chris Schenkel |
| Institutional Award for its presentation of The Sense of Wonder, How Life Begins, Sharks: The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau , The Road to Gettysburg , Hemingway's Spain, and The Secret of Michelangelo: Every Man’s Dream, documentaries with "exceptional inventiveness" | |
| CBS News | CBS Reports: Hunger in America (reported by Charles Kuralt and David Culhane [7] ) |
| WJR/Detroit, MI | Kaleidoscope, hosted by Mike Whorf |
| National Educational Television | Mister Rogers' Neighborhood [8] |
| Playhouse | |
| Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc. | One Nation Indivisible (hosted by Roderick MacLeish [9] ) |
| Charles Kuralt | Personal Award for Kuralt's work on CBS News' On the Road |
| Dr. Leonard Reiffel (WEEI/Boston, MA) | Personal Award for Dr Reiffel's work on WEEI's The World Tomorrow |
| Robert Cromie and WTTW-TV/Chicago, IL | Book Beat |
| NBC Radio | Second Sunday |
| WQXR/New York, NY | Steinway Hall |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| NBC | NBC Experiment in Television |
| Who Killed Lake Erie?, produced by Fred Freed | |
| NBC Radio Network | "On Trial: The Man in the Middle," an episode of Second Sunday |
| WLIB/New York, NY | Higher Horizons |
| Voice of America | Institutional Award for "promotion of international understanding" |
| CBS | J.T. (from the CBS Children's Hour ) |
| The Japanese | |
| KQED/San Francisco, CA | Newsroom |
| Bing Crosby | Personal Award in recognition of Crosby's entertainment career |
| Chet Huntley | Personal Award for Huntley's "major and always dependable contribution to radio and television for over 35 years" |
| Curt Gowdy | Personal Award to "television's most versatile sportscaster" |
| Frank Reynolds | Personal Award for Reynolds' anchor and commentary work on ABC Evening News |
| Tom Pettit | Personal Award for Pettit's investigative reportage for NBC News |
| National Educational Television | Sesame Street [10] [11] [12] |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and KCET/Los Angeles, CA (airing on National Educational Television) | The Advocates |
| WFBM-TV/Indianapolis, IN | The Negro in Indianapolis, a series of programs examining and promoting race relations in the city |
| WRNG/Atlanta, GA | When Will It End? |