| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| ABC |
IBM Presents Baryshnikov on Broadway |
| ABC |
Amber Waves |
| BBC Television |
All Creatures Great and Small |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
The Wonderful World of Science |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
Peniel |
| CBS Entertainment |
Gideon's Trumpet |
| CBS Entertainment |
Playing for Time |
| CBS News |
Universe |
| Walter Cronkite |
Personal Award for his career in broadcast journalism |
| Phil Donahue |
Personal Award for his interview work on Donahue |
| Elaine Green (WCPO-TV/Cincinnati, OH) |
Personal Award for her interview with a gunman and admitted murderer who instigated a hostage crisis in the WCPO-TV studios |
| KCET-TV/Los Angeles, CA, Adrian Malone, and Dr. Carl Sagan |
Cosmos |
| KQED-TV/San Francisco, CA |
Broken Arrow: Can a Nuclear Weapons Accident Happen Here? |
| KTEH-TV/San Jose, CA, Carol Mon Pere, and Sandra Nichols |
The Battle of Westlands, a profile of the conflict between agri-business giants and small farmers in California's Central Valley |
| KUED-TV/Salt Lake City, UT and Thirteen/WNET/New York, NY |
The MX Debate |
| Maryland Instructional Television |
Terra: Our World |
| Minnesota Public Radio |
A Prairie Home Companion |
| National Geographic Society and WQED-TV/Pittsburgh, PA |
The National Geographic Specials |
| National Public Radio |
Jazz Alive! |
| NBC Radio |
The Hallelujah Caucus, an examination of the influence of conservative religion on American politics and society |
| NBC Television and Paramount Television |
Shogun |
| Mary Nissenson (WTVJ-TV/Miami, FL) |
Personal Award for Poland: A Changing Nation |
| Carroll O'Connor |
Personal Award for the "Edith's Death" episode of Archie Bunker's Place |
| Public Broadcasting Service and Robert Geller |
The American Short Story |
| San Francisco Opera |
The San Francisco Opera Radio Broadcasts |
| Sol Taishoff |
Personal Award for his reportage and critiques on events in radio and television |
| Studs Terkel |
Personal Award for his work at WFMT/Chicago, IL |
| WNCN/New York, NY |
Institutional Award for overall performance as exemplified by Conversations with Horowitz |
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| ABC News |
Viewpoint, Nightline and America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations. |
| ABC Television and T.A.T. Communications |
The Wave. |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
Carl Sandburg at Connemara. |
| CBS Television and Alan Landsburg Productions |
Bill. |
Eighth Decade Consortium
(KOMO-TV, Seattle, Washington,
KSTP-TV, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota,
WCVB-TV, Boston, Massachusetts,
WJLA-TV, Washington, D.C., and
WRAL-TV, Raleigh, North Carolina) |
Fed Up with Fear. |
| Home Box Office, New York, New York, and Ms. Magazine |
She's Nobody's Baby: The History of American Women in the 20th Century (the first Peabody awarded to a cable program) |
| KATU-TV, Portland, Oregon |
Series of Significant Television Documentaries. |
| Danny Kaye, New York, New York |
for An Evening with Danny Kaye and The New York Philharmonic; Zubin Mehta, Music Director and Skokie. |
| KJRH-TV, Tulsa, Oklahoma |
Project: China. |
| KTEH-TV, San Jose, California |
The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb. |
| Bill Leonard, CBS Television |
a Personal Award. |
| National Radio Theatre, Chicago, Illinois |
The Odyssey of Homer. |
| NBC Television and MTM Enterprises |
Hill Street Blues. |
| Nebraska Educational Television Network and The Great Amwell Company |
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed. |
| Societe Radio-Canada, Montreal, Canada |
Klimbo: Le Lion et La Souris (The Lion and the Mouse). |
| Thirteen/WNET, New York, New York, and PBS |
Dance in America: Nureyev and The Joffrey Ballet/In Tribute to Nijinsky. |
| Todd, Timothy and Susan, Middlebury, VT |
The Todds' Teddy Bears Picnic. |
| WDVM-TV, John Goldsmith, Washington, D.C. |
Now That We've Got Your Interest. |
| WGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, and Granada TV, London |
The Red Army. |
| WJR Radio, Detroit, Michigan |
Newsfile: A Bankrupt Court. |
| WLS-TV, Chicago, Illinois |
Eyewitness News. |
| WQDR-FM, Raleigh, North Carolina |
Our Forgotten Warriors: Vietnam Veterans Face the Challenges of the '80s. |
| WSMV-TV, Nashville, Tennessee |
Series of Significant Television Documentaries. |
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| ABC News |
Vietnam Requiem. |
| BBC Television, Paramount Television, and Operation Prime Time |
Smiley's People. |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
Morningside/1905. |
| CBS Entertainment and Cinetex International |
The Wall. |
| CBS News |
Juilliard and Beyond: A Life in Music |
| Alistair Cooke |
a Personal Award. |
| Daniel Wilson Productions and Taurus Films |
Blood and Honor: Youth Under Hitler. |
| KGMB-TV, Honolulu, Hawaii, and Lee Productions Inc. |
Beyond the Great Wall: Journey to the End of China. |
| KOCO-TV, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
Oklahoma Shame. |
| KQED-TV, San Francisco, California |
Current Affairs: The Case of Dashiell Hammett. |
| KYW-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Sweet Nothing. |
| Metropolitan Opera Association, Texaco, Inc., and The Texaco Foundation |
for Their Commitment to Both Radio and Television Presentations of Great Opera. |
| Mutual Broadcasting System |
Larry King Show. |
| National Public Radio |
The Sunday Show. |
| National Public Radio |
Taylor Made Piano: A Jazz History. |
| NBC News |
The Man Who Shot the Pope: A Study in Terrorism. |
| NBC Radio News |
Banks on the Brink. |
| NBC Television and Highgate Pictures |
The Electric Grandmother. |
| NBC Television, Margie-Lee Enterprises, The Blue Marble Company, in association with ITC Productions, Inc. |
Skeezer. |
| Radio Foundation, New York, New York |
The Bob and Ray Public Radio Show. |
| Television Corporation of America, Washington, D.C. |
784 Days That Changed America - From Watergate to Resignation. |
| WAGA-TV, Atlanta, Georgia |
Paradise Saved. |
| Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Company, New York, New York |
Nickelodeon |
| WBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois |
Killing Crime: A Police Cop-out. |
| WCVB-TV, Boston, Massachusetts |
Ground Zero: Victory Road. |
| WMAL Radio, Washington, D.C. |
They Served with Honor. |
| WQED-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Firebird. |
| WTSP-TV, St. Petersburg, Florida |
Prisoners of the Harvest. |
| WWL-TV, New Orleans, Louisiana |
Search for Alexander. |
| Recipient |
Area of excellence |
| ABC Television and Dick Clark Productions |
The Woman Who Willed a Miracle. |
| Cable News Network (CNN), Atlanta, Georgia |
for Significant News and Information Programming. |
| CBS Entertainment and Mendelson-Melendez Productions |
What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown? |
| CBS Entertainment and Smith-Hemion Productions |
Romeo and Juliet on Ice. |
| CBS News |
The Plane That Fell From the Sky, a documentary recounting the near-crash of a TWA jet in April 1979 |
| CBS News |
60 Minutes, for the report "'Lenell Geter's in Jail" |
| KCTS, Seattle, Washington |
Diagnosis: AIDS. |
| KMOX, St. Louis, Missouri |
Times Beach: Born 1925, Died 1983, an examination of the effects of dioxin on the Missouri town. |
| KRON-TV, San Francisco, California |
Climate of Death. |
| Thomas Looker, Montague, Maine |
New England Almanac: Portraits in Sound of New England Life and Landscape. |
| Don McGannon, (Group W, Westinghouse Broadcasting Corp.) |
a Personal Award. |
| NBC Television and Chrysalis-Yellen Productions |
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number. |
| NBC Television and Edgar J. Scherick Associates |
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'. |
| NBC Television and Motown Productions |
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever. |
| South Carolina Educational Radio Network, Columbia, South Carolina |
Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. |
| Sunbow Productions, New York, New York |
The Great Space Coaster. |
| The Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, Tennessee |
an Institutional Award. |
| WBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois |
Studebaker: Less Than They Promised, a report on the effect of the automaker on families and individuals |
| WBRZ-TV, Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
Give Me That Bigtime Religion, a profile of Jimmy Swaggart |
| WCCO, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Debbie Pielow: Waiting for a Heart That Never Came. |
| WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
I-Team: Ambulances, a report documenting less‑than‑satisfactory performances by some Twin Cities ambulance services |
| WGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts |
Nova: The Miracle of Life. |
| WGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, Central Independent Television, London, and Antenne-2, Paris |
Vietnam: A Television History. |
| WMAL Radio, Washington, D.C. |
The Jeffersonian World of Dumas Malone. |
| WNBC-TV, New York, New York |
Asylum in the Streets. |
| WRAL Radio, Raleigh, North Carolina |
Victims. |
| WTBS-TV, Atlanta, Georgia |
Portrait of America. |
| WTTW-TV, Chicago, Illinois |
The Merry Widow. |
| WTTW-TV, Chicago, Illinois, and the BBC, London |
The Making of a Continent. |
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| ABC News |
To Save Our Schools, To Save Our Children. |
| ABC News and Ted Koppel |
Nightline. |
| ABC Television |
Heartsounds. |
| Roone Arledge, ABC Television |
a Personal Award. |
| Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah |
Bradbury 13. |
| CBS Entertainment and the David Gerber Company |
George Washington. |
| Central Independent Television, London, UK |
Seeds of Despair. |
| Corporation for Entertainment and Learning Inc./Bill Moyers, Washington, D.C. |
A Walk Through the 20th Century With Bill Moyers. |
| Frontline, Boston, Massachusetts |
Frontline. |
| Granada Television of England, London, UK |
The Jewel in the Crown. |
| KDFW-TV, Dallas, Texas |
A Call for Help. |
| KFGO Radio, Fargo, North Dakota |
24 Hour Blizzard Coverage. |
| KGW-TV, Portland, Oregon |
Rajneesh Update. |
| KNX NewsRadio, Los Angeles, California |
The Immigration Problem. |
| MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour |
Essays by Roger Rosenblatt. |
| NBC Television and MTM Enterprises |
St. Elsewhere. |
| Protestant Radio and Television Center, Atlanta, Georgia |
The Protestant Hour. |
| Showtime |
Faerie Tale Theatre. |
| Thirteen/WNET, New York, New York |
Heritage: Civilization and the Jews. |
| Thirteen/WNET, New York, New York |
The Brain. |
| Turner Broadcasting System, Atlanta, Georgia |
Cousteau/Amazon. |
| WAFX Radio, Fort Wayne, Indiana |
D-Day: 40 Years Later. |
| WCAX-TV, Burlington, Vermont |
Patterns of Practice. |
| WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
The Hollow Victory: Vietnam Under Communism. |
| WCVB-TV, Boston, Massachusetts |
Somerville High. |
| WDVM-TV, Washington, D.C. |
Investigation of Dr. Milan Vuitch. |
| WFMT Radio and Raymond Nordstrand, Chicago, Illinois |
Fine Arts Radio Programming. |
| WMAQ-TV, Chicago, Illinois |
Political Parasites. |
| WNYC Radio, New York, New York |
Small Things Considered. |
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| Johnny Carson, NBC Television |
a Personal Award. |
| CBS Entertainment and Dave Bell Productions |
Do You Remember Love? |
| CBS News |
The Number Man - Bach at Three Hundred. |
| CBS News |
Whose America Is It? |
| Central Independent Television, London, UK, and WETA-TV, Washington, D.C. |
The Skin Horse. |
| Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, New York |
Seminars on Media and Society. |
| Laurance Fraiberg, (Westinghouse Broadcasting Corp., Group W) |
a Personal Award. |
| Frontline, Boston, Massachusetts |
Crisis in Central America. |
| Bob Geldof and Live Aid |
a Personal Award. |
| Home Box Office and Spinning Reels |
Braingames. |
| KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Second Chance. |
| KDTV-TV, San Francisco, California |
Coverage of the Mexican Earthquake. |
| KGO-TV, San Francisco, California |
The American West: Steinbeck Country. |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, New York |
Live From Lincoln Center. |
| MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, New York, New York |
Apartheid's People. |
| NBC News |
Vietnam Ten Years After. |
| NBC Television |
An Early Frost. |
| Thirteen/WNET, New York, New York, and The Harvey Milk Film Project Inc. |
The Times of Harvey Milk. |
| TV Ontario, Ontario, Canada |
The Final Chapter? |
| Marjorie Van Halteren |
Breakdown and Back. |
| WBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois |
Armed and Dangerous. |
| WBUR-FM, Boston, Massachusetts |
Liberation Remembered. |
| WBZ-TV, Boston, Massachusetts |
Tender Places. |
| WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
I-Team: Home Health Care. |
| WGBH Radio, Boston, Massachusetts |
Overall Programming and Its Leadership in State-of-the-Art Broadcasting. |
| WHAS Radio, Louisville, Kentucky |
Down and Outside: On the Streets of Louisville. |
| WSMV-TV, Nashville, Tennessee |
A Higher Standard. |
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| ABC News |
This Week with David Brinkley. |
| ABC Television Entertainment and Churchill Films |
The Mouse and the Motorcycle. |
| BBC, London, and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, New York, New York |
The Story of English. |
| Mrs. Dorothy Bullitt (King Broadcasting), Seattle, Washington |
a Personal Award. |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
Paris: From Oscar Wilde to Jim Morrison. |
| CBS Entertainment and Garner-Duchow Productions |
Promise. |
| CBS News |
Newsmark: Where in the World Are We? |
| CBS News |
Sunday Morning: Vladimir Horowitz. |
| CBS News |
CBS Reports: The Vanishing Family - Crisis in Black America. |
| Connecticut Public Radio |
One On One. |
| The Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana |
for Their Overall Programming. |
| Jim Henson, and The Muppets, New York, New York |
a Personal Award. |
| John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. |
The 1986 Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts. |
| KPIX-TV, San Francisco, California |
AIDS Lifeline. |
| NBC Radio News |
Radio Coverage of the Attack on Tripoli, Libya. |
| NBC Television |
The Cosby Show. |
| Thames Television International, London, UK, and D.L. Taffner, Ltd., New York, New York |
Unknown Chaplin. |
| WCCO-TV and WCCO Radio, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Project Lifesaver. |
| WCVB-TV, Boston, Massachusetts |
A World of Difference. |
| WFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas |
S.M.U. Investigation |
| WGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, and Thames Television, London, UK |
Paradise Postponed. |
| WHAS Radio, Louisville, Kentucky |
A Disaster Called Schizophrenia. |
| WQED-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Anne of Green Gables. |
| WQED-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. |
for The National Geographic Specials. |
| WSB-TV, Atlanta, Georgia |
The Boy King. |
| WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Who's Behind the Wheel? |
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| WSMV/Nashville, TN |
4 the Family, a series of family-themed specials and PSAs |
| CKVU-TV/Vancouver, BC |
AIDS and You |
| HBO |
America Undercover: Drunk and Deadly |
| Center for New American Media |
American Tongues |
| CNN |
Coverage of the 1987 stock market crash |
| Mutual Broadcasting System |
Charities That Give and Take |
| KQED-TV/San Francisco, CA in Association with El Teatro Campesino |
Corridos! Tales of Passion and Revolution |
| WRC-TV/Washington, DC |
"Deadly Mistakes," a report exposing inaccurate lab results of cancer patients |
| WCPO-TV/Cincinnati, OH |
Investigation into questionable deaths at Drake Hospital |
| ABC Radio News |
Earnest Will: Americans in the Gulf |
| Blackside, Inc. |
Eyes On the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame and CBS |
Institutional Award for Hall of Fame, specifically citing Pack of Lies and Foxfire |
| WCVB-TV/Boston, MA |
"Inside Bridgewater," an investigation into occurrences at a state hospital for the criminally insane |
| MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour |
Series of reports on Japan's economy |
| Karl Haas |
Personal Award for his work as a pianist and conductor and for work on Adventures in Good Music |
| Kevin Brownlow, and David Gill |
Personal Awards for their work in preservation of silent films |
| KPAL Radio/Little Rock, AR |
Organizational Award for its overall programming for children |
| NBC |
L.A. Law |
| NBC and Louis Rudolph Films |
LBJ: The Early Years |
| HBO |
Mandela |
| WNET/New York City |
Nature, for the episode "A Season in the Sun" |
| WNET/New York City |
Shoah |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and KCET-TV/Los Angeles, CA |
NOVA, for the episode "Spy Machines" |
| WSM Radio/Nashville, TN |
Of Violence and Victims, an investigation into the increase in Nashville's crime rate |
| National Public Radio |
A Weekend Edition profile of Ryan Martin, a 13-year-old boy who lives paralyzed after a shooting incident |
| WXXI-TV/Rochester, NY |
Safe Haven |
| Long Bow Group Inc., New York, New York |
Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village |
| KNBC/Los Angeles, CA |
Some Place Like Home, a profile of Providence House, an AIDS hospice in the Los Angeles area |
| Paramount Pictures Corporation |
Star Trek: The Next Generation, for the episode "The Big Goodbye" |
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| WTTW-TV/Chicago in association with Chloe Productions, Inc. |
...and the Pursuit of Happiness |
| Children's Television Workshop |
3-2-1 Contact Extra: I Have AIDS, A Teenager's Story |
| CBS News |
48 Hours, for the reports "Abortion Battle" and "On Runaway Street" |
| CBS News |
60 Minutes, for the report "Mr. Snow Goes to Washington," which highlighted a campaign on the dangers of lawn darts |
| WHAS/Louisville |
A Matter of Time: The Crisis in Kentucky Corrections |
| Public Affairs Television Inc. |
Bill Moyers' World of Ideas |
| WPLG-TV/Miami, FL |
"Caution: Precious Cargo," a report that highlighted low levels of school bus safety, including bus lines that operated unlicensed |
| South Carolina Educational Television and The Mosaic Group, Inc. |
Children's Express NEWSMAGAZINE: Campaign '88 |
| National Public Radio |
Cowboys on Everest |
| HBO |
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam |
| Don Hewitt |
Personal Award for his work at CBS News |
| The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (WNET/New York & WETA/Washington) |
Coverage of the 1988 election campaign |
| Frontline and Time, Inc. |
Frontline: The Choice |
| KMOX/St. Louis |
Hate Crimes: America's Cancer |
| Christian Science Monitor Reports |
Islam in Turmoil |
| Jim McKay |
Personal Award for his work at ABC Sports |
| KCBS-TV/Los Angeles, CA |
"MCA and the Mob," a series of reports revealing organized crime connections to the media conglomerate |
| BBC World Service for Africa |
Nothing Political/Mandela at 70 |
| WBUR-FM/Boston, MA |
Speaking for Everyman: Ian McKellen Celebrates Shakespeare's Birthday |
| HBO and Pro Image Productions/Sydney, Australia |
Suzi's Story |
| CBS Entertainment and Telecom Entertainment, in association with Yorkshire Television |
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank |
| WBRZ-TV/Baton Rouge, LA |
"The Best Insurance Commissioner Money Can Buy," an investigation of alleged improprieties on the part of the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Louisiana |
| KTAR Radio/Phoenix |
Coverage of the impeachment of Arizona governor Evan Mecham |
| TNT |
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind |
| NBC |
The Murder of Mary Phagan |
| WJLA-TV/Washington, D.C. |
"The Radon Watch Campaign," a series of reports and PSAs |
| BBC and WNET/New York |
The Singing Detective |
| ABC and The Bedford Falls Company in association with MGM/UA Television |
thirtysomething |
| Ambassador Walter Annenberg |
Personal Award for his work in public broadcasting |
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| ABC Television, and Black/Marlens Company, in association with New World Television |
The Wonder Years |
| ABC Television, Lou Rudolph Films, Motown Productions, Allarcom Ltd., and Fries Entertainment |
Small Sacrifices |
| ABC Television, and Sacret Inc., in association with Warner Bros. Television |
China Beach, for the episode "Vets" |
| Beyond International Group, Sydney, Australia |
The Great Wall of Iron |
| David Brinkley, ABC Television |
a Personal Award |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Lost Innocence: The Children of World War II |
| CBS Radio News |
China in Crisis |
| CBS Television, Motown-Pangaea Productions, in association with Quintex Entertainment |
Lonesome Dove |
| Central Independent Television, London, UK |
Cambodia Year Ten |
| Cable News Network (CNN), Atlanta, Georgia |
CNN's Coverage of China |
| Children's Television Workshop, New York, New York |
Sesame Street |
| Film News Now, and WTVS, Detroit, Michigan, in association with P.O.V., New York, New York |
Who Killed Vincent Chin? |
| Home Box Office, New York, New York |
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt |
| KCBS, San Francisco, California |
Earthquake '89 |
| KCNC-TV, Denver, Colorado |
Yellowstone: Four Seasons After Fire |
| KGO-TV, San Francisco, California |
89 San Francisco Earthquake |
| KING-TV, Seattle, Washington |
Project Home Team |
| KRON-TV, San Francisco, California |
I Want to Go Home |
| Music Television (MTV), New York, New York |
Decade |
| NBC News |
NBC News Special: To Be an American |
| National Public Radio, Washington, D.C. |
Scott Simon's Radio Essays |
| Public Affairs Television and Alvin H. Perlmutter Inc., New York, New York |
The Public Mind |
| D Roberts, Independent Producer, American Public Radio's "Soundprint" Series |
Mei: A Daughter's Song |
| Leonard J. Reinsch |
a Personal Award |
| Texaco and The Metropolitan Opera |
Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts |
| WCSC-TV, Charleston, South Carolina |
Hurricane Hugo Aftermath |
| WLOX-TV, Biloxi, Mississippi |
"Did They Die in Vain?" an exploration of the effects of the 1964 murders of civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi 25 years later |