List of Peabody Award winners (1970–1979)
1976

List of Peabody Award winners (1970–1979)

Section Title: 1976
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Recipient	Area of Excellence

ABC	Animals, Animals, Animals

Eleanor and Franklin

ABC News	Suddenly an Eagle

ABC Sports	Award for coverage of the 1976 Winter and Summer Olympic Games

Jim Karayn and the League of Women Voters	Award for organization of the 1976 presidential debates

CBS News	60 Minutes

In Celebration of US, the network's coverage of Bicentennial events across the United States on July 4th

In the News

WETA-TV/Washington, DC	In Performance at Wolf Trap

WETA-TV/Washington, DC, WNET/New York, NY, and Bill Moyers	"A Conversation with Jimmy Carter," an episode of U.S.A.: People and Politics

WNET/New York, NY	The Adams Chronicles

KERA-TV/Dallas, TX	A Thirst in the Garden, a documentary examining lack of potable water in the lower Rio Grande Valley

South Carolina Educational Radio Network	American Popular Song with Alec Wilder and Friends

WGIR AM & FM/Manchester, NH	Flashback 1976

Tomorrow Entertainment, Inc.	Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

Charles Barthold	Personal Award to the WHO-TV/Des Moines, IA cameraman for filming a tornado striking Jordan, Iowa

Perry Como	Personal Award for the NBC special Perry Como's Christmas in Austria

Sy Pearlman	Personal Award to the NBC News producer for "The Sawyer Brothers," a segment of Weekend that raised suspicion of the guilt and conviction of two brothers in a North Carolina kidnapping

Bruce Morton and Hughes Rudd	Joint Personal Awards to the anchors of CBS Morning News

WLBT-TV/Jackson, MS	"Power Politics in Mississippi," an episode of PROBE that examined legal ethics and conflicts of interest

WBBM-TV/Chicago, IL and Franklin McMahon	Primary Colors, An Artist on the Campaign Trail, which followed the WBBM reporter/artist creating works depicting the presidential campaigns

NBC	Sybil

Associated Press Radio	The Garden Plot: Food as a Weapon

KCET/Los Angeles, CA	Visions

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Franklin McMahon earned a Peabody Award.

final_sentence: Franklin McMahon earned a Peabody Award.