List of Peabody Award winners (1950–59)

Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions.

1950

Recipient	Area of Excellence
Metropolitan Opera, ABC Radio^[1]	Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts
ABC Radio, Elmer Davis	Reporting and Interpretation of News
ABC Television	Saturday at the Zoo
Jimmy Durante, NBC Television	a Personal Award
NBC Radio	Halls of Ivy
NBC Radio	The Quick and the Dead
NBC Television	Zoo Parade
Radio Free Europe	Contribution to International Understanding
WBBM Radio, Chicago, Illinois	The Quiet Answer, Public Service by a Regional Station
Honorable Mentions
ABC, Its President, Robert E. Kintner, and his associates, Robert Saudek and Joseph McDonald	for Their Courageous Stand in Resisting Organized Pressures and Their Reaffirmation of Basic American Principles
CBS Radio	Hear It Now
Mutual Broadcasting System and United Nations Radio	Contribution to International Understanding, Pursuit of Peace
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)
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

Recipient	Area of Excellence
ABC Television	Celanese Theatre.
BBC, London, UK, and Alistair Cooke	Letter from America.
CBS Radio	The Nation's Nightmare.
CBS Television, Edward R. Murrow	See It Now.
KPOJ Radio, Portland, Oregon	Careers Unlimited and Civic Theatre on the Air, Meritorious Local Public Service by Radio.
NBC Radio	Bob and Ray.
NBC Television, Gian Carlo Menotti	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 and Our World Today, Meritorious Regional Public Service by Radio and Television.

1952

Recipient	Area of Excellence
ABC Radio, Martin Agronsky	News.
CBS Radio	The New York City Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.
NBC Radio	The Standard Symphony.
NBC Television	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

Recipient	Area of Excellence
BBC Television, London, UK	Promotion of International Understanding Through Television, Coverage of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Imogene Coca, NBC Television	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".
Edward R. Murrow, CBS	a Personal Award.
NBC Television	NBC Television Opera Theatre.
NBC Television	Television Playhouse.
NBC Television	Mr. Wizard.
WBAW Radio, 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

Recipient	Area of Excellence
ABC Television	Disneyland
CBS Radio	Man's Right to Knowledge
CBS Television	Adventure
CBS Television	Omnibus
CBS Television	The Search
John Daly, ABC Television	Personal Award, Radio-Television News
Pauline Frederick, NBC Radio	a Personal Award for Pauline Frederick at the U.N.
George Gobel, NBC Television	a Personal Award
KGAK Radio, Gallup, New Mexico	The Navajo Hour
National Association of Manufacturers	Industry on Parade
NBC Radio	Conversation
WJAR-TV, Providence, Rhode Island	Hurricane Carol
Boris Goldovsky, ABC, Metropolitan Opera	Personal Award for Radio Music, on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts^[2]

1955

Recipient	Area of Excellence
ABC Radio and Television	The Voice of Firestone.
Dr. Frank Baxter, KNXT-TV, Los Angeles, California	a Personal Award, Television Education.
CBS Television	Lassie.
Perry Como, NBC Television	a Personal Award, Television Entertainment.
Douglas Edwards, CBS Television	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.
NBC Radio	Biographies in Sound.
NBC Television	Producers' Showcase.
Sylvester L. Weaver, NBC Radio and Television	a Personal Award for Pioneering Program Concepts.
Honorable Mentions
CBS Television	Omnibus.
KFYO Radio, Lubbock, Texas	Local Public Service.
KQED-TV, San Francisco, California	Television Local Public Service.
NBC Television	Assignment: India.
WMT-TV, Cedar Rapids, Iowa	Television Local Public Service.

1956

Recipient	Area of Excellence
ABC Radio	Edward P. Morgan and the News.
ABC Television, John Charles Daly	Television News for Coverage of the National Political Conventions.
CBS Television	The Ed Sullivan Show.
CBS Television	You Are There.
CBS Television	World in Crisis.
Jack Gould	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.
NBC Television	Youth Wants to Know.
Rod Serling \| a Personal Award for Requiem for a Heavyweight
UNICEF	The Secret Life of Danny Kaye.
United Nations Radio and Television	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

Recipient	Area of Excellence
ABC Television, John Charles Daly	Prologue '58.
CBS Radio and Television	Radio and Television News Including Face the Nation, See It Now, The Twentieth Century, and This is New York.
CBS Television	Captain Kangaroo.
CBS Television	The Last Word.
Bob Hope, NBC Television	a Personal Award.
KING-TV, Seattle, Washington	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 Radio and Television	NBC Educational TV Project, Know Your Schools.
NBC Television	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show.
NBC Television	Hallmark Hall of Fame.
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc.	Boston Conference on Programming and the High Quality of Its Public Service Broadcasting.
WKAR Radio, East Lansing, Michigan	You Are the Jury.
WQED-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	The Heritage Series.

1958

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

1959

Recipient	Area of Excellence
WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and The World Affairs Council of Boston	Decisions
NBC Radio	Family Living '59
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
WCCO Radio/Minneapolis, MN	Separate awards for local public service
WDSU-TV/New Orleans, LA	Separate awards for local public service
ABC	Khrushchev Abroad
CBS	The Ed Sullivan Show
	The Population Explosion
	Small World
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	Play of the Week

Notes

Peabody Award winners

1940s	1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949

1950s	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

1960s	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

1970s	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

1980s	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

1990s	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

2000s	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

2010s	2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

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