List of Peabody Award winners (1990–1999)
1997

List of Peabody Award winners (1990–1999)

Section Title: 1997
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Recipient	Area of Excellence

ABC and Sarabande Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television	Nothing Sacred

ABC and The Black/Marlens Company in association with Touchstone Television	Ellen, for "The Puppy Episode"

ABC News/Nightline	Award for Nightline's 3-part report "The Trial of Pol Pot"

Carol Marin	Personal Award for her distinguished investigative work at Chicago's WMAQ-TV and WBBM-TV, as well as her "personal stand against the tide of sensationalism in television news"

Ted Turner	Personal Award for Turner's work as "a true visionary in electronic communications"

Barraclough Carey Productions, Channel 4, and The History Channel	Hello Mr. President

New England Cable News	Look for Me Here: 299 Days in the Life of Nora Lenihan

Judith Helfand Productions, P.O.V./The American Documentary and Independent Television Service	A Healthy Baby Girl

KFGO/Fargo, ND	Award for the station's coverage of the Red River Flood ("The Flood of the Century")

Southern Regional Council	Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

KGO/San Francisco, CA	"State Farm: Good Neighbor or Bad Faith?" an investigation into fraudulent practices by the insurance company involving policyholders' disaster claims

Focus on the Family Radio Theater	Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Freedom

Murray Street Enterprises and Jazz at Lincoln Center for National Public Radio	Jazz from Lincoln Center

WRAL-TV/Raleigh, NC	"Military Medicine", an exposé into the low accountability standards applied to doctors in the United States Armed Forces

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer	Award for Richard Rodriguez's essays on American life

KQED-TV/San Francisco, CA	The Castro

KTCA/Twin Cities Public Television in association with Middlemarch Films	Liberty! The American Revolution

WGBH-TV/Boston, MA	The American Experience: The Presidents Series

The American Experience, for "Troublesome Creek - A Midwestern"

WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and BBC	Mobil Masterpiece Theatre, for "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"

Les Films d'Ici, La Sept-Cinema, and Centre European Cinematographique RhoneAlpes (presented on Bravo and The Independent Film Channel)	In the Land of the Deaf

EuroArts Entertainment OHG & SDR/arte in association with Bravo and Danmarks Radio	Blue Note: A History of Modern Jazz

BBC (presented on The History Channel	The Nazis: A Warning from History

Florentine Films/Hott Productions and WETA-TV/Washington, DC	Divided Highways: The Interstates and the Transformation of American Life

HBO and Carlton Television in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation	Body Doubles: The Twin Experience

FASE Productions for PBS	The Eddie Files (with Kay Toliver)

Nickelodeon	Award for The Big Help, the network's campaign to promote volunteerism by children

Big Feats! Entertainment	Wishbone

WNET/New York, NY	City Arts

NBC and Fatima Productions	Homicide: Life on the Street, for "the series' sustained excellence," citing in particular the episode "Subway"

HBO Pictures and The Thomas Carter Company	Don King: Only in America

TNT and a Mark Carliner Production	George Wallace

CBS News	Sunday Morning

60 Minutes

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Richard Rodriguez´s Essay, "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer" earned a Peabody Award in 1997.

final_sentence: Richard Rodriguez´s Essay, "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer" earned a Peabody Award in 1997.