List of Peabody Award winners (1960–1969)
1961

List of Peabody Award winners (1960–1969)

Section Title: 1961
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Recipient	Area of Excellence

WNYC/New York, NY	The Reader's Almanac and Teen Age Book Talk

BBC Television	An Age of Kings

NBC	David Brinkley's Journal

The Bob Newhart Show

Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait

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

Newton N. Minow	Personal Award to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission

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The Bob Newhart Show won a Peabody Award in 1961.

final_sentence: The Bob Newhart Show won a Peabody Award in 1961.