# List of Peabody Award winners (1950–1959)

Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions.

## 1950

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| Metropolitan Opera, ABC Radio | Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts |
| ABC Radio, Elmer Davis | Reporting and Interpretation of News |
| ABC Television | Saturday at the Zoo, a visit to the Bronx Zoo |
| Jimmy Durante, NBC Television | a Personal Award |
| NBC Radio | Halls of Ivy |
| NBC Radio | The Quick and the Dead, a show on the nuclear age produced by Fred Friendly and starring Bob Hope and William L. Laurence |
| NBC Television | Zoo Parade |
| Radio Free Europe | Contribution to International Understanding |
| WBBM Radio, Chicago, Illinois | The Quiet Answer, Public Service by a Regional Station, for a documentary series on race relations |
| 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. Kintner continued to employ Gypsy Rose Lee as the host of the game show What Makes You Tick? after Lee's appearance in Red Channels. |
| CBS Radio | Hear It Now |
| Mutual Broadcasting System and United Nations Radio | Contribution to International Understanding, Pursuit of Peace, produced by Norman Corwin, particularly the premiere program, "Document A/777" |
| 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), for presentations of classical 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, a documentary on organized crime produced by Irving Gitlin |
| 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. Careers Unlimited, a partnership with Portland Public Schools, the Exchange Club, and the Oregon State Employment Service, provided resources on employment for youth. Civic Theatre on the Air worked with a local Community theatre |
| 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 (radio) and Our World Today (television), Meritorious Regional Public Service by Radio and Television. Arthur Vann Gibson of Morningside Presbyterian Church hosted The Pastor's Study. |

## 1952

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC Radio, Martin Agronsky | a Personal Award for 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, 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 |

## 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, "with a special bow to Peter Pan" |
| Sylvester L. Weaver, NBC Radio and Television | a Personal Award for Pioneering Program Concepts |
| Honorable Mentions ||
| CBS Television | Omnibus, for a series on the Adams political family |
| KFYO Radio, Lubbock, Texas | Local Public Service |
| KQED-TV, San Francisco, California | Television Local Public Service |
| NBC Television | Assignment: India, narrated by Chester B. Bowles |
| 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 (an episode of See It Now) |
| 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 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, moderated by Christian A. Herter Jr. |
| NBC Radio | Family Living '59, moderated by Arlene Francis |
| 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, featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| 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 |
| CBS | The Population Explosion, an episode of CBS Reports hosted by Howard K. Smith |
| CBS | Small World, hosted by Edward R. Murrow |
| 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 (as flagship station of the NTA Film Network) | The Play of the Week |