List of Peabody Award winners (1960–1969)

Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions.

1960s

1960

Recipient	Area of Excellence
NBC	Award for the White Paper series of news specials
	The Shari Lewis Show
	The Texaco Huntley-Brinkley Report
CBS	Award for coverage of the 1960 Winter and Summer Olympics
	CBS Reports, for Harvest of Shame
	G.E. College Bowl
	The Fabulous Fifties
Dr. Frank Stanton (CBS)	Personal Award for Dr. Stanton's actions that led to the 1960 presidential debates
Broadcasting and Film Commission of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.	Institutional Award for the programs Look Up and Live, Frontiers of Faith, Pilgrimage, and Talk-back
KPFK Radio/Los Angeles, CA	Separate Institutional Awards for the stations' locally produced programming
WCCO-TV/Minneapolis, MN
WCKT-TV/Miami, FL
WOOD Radio and WOOD-TV/Grand Rapids, MI
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network	Institutional Award for the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts
WQXR/New York, NY	Musical Spectaculars
Irene Wicker (WNYC/New York, NY)	Personal Award for Wicker's work in children's radio programs

1961

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

1962

Recipient	Area of Excellence
CBS	A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy
Carol Burnett (CBS)	Personal Award for Burnett's comedic performances
Walter Cronkite (CBS News)	Personal Award for Cronkite's work on The Twentieth Century, CBS Reports, and other work for CBS News
ABC	Adlai Stevenson Reports
WJR/Detroit, MI	Adventures in Good Music
Official Films Inc.	Biography
WNDT/New York, NY	Books for Our Time
WMAQ/Chicago, IL	Carnival of Books
NBC	The DuPont Show of the Week
	Exploring
	Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
NBC Radio Network	The Eternal Light
William R. McAndrew (NBC News)	Personal Award for McAndrew's "vision and leadership" as NBC News' Executive VP
WGBH-TV/Boston, MA	Elliot Norton Reviews, hosted by Elliot Norton
Television Information Office and National Association of Broadcasters	Institutional Award for the organizations' study of locally produced children's programming which resulted in the book For the Young Viewer: Television Programming for Children… at the Local Level
WQXR/New York, NY	Institutional Award for the station's news presentations in the midst of the New York City newspaper strike
KPIX-TV/San Francisco, CA	San Francisco Pageant, a series of historical documentaries profiling the city of San Francisco
KNX/Los Angeles, CA	Science Editor

1963

Recipient	Area of Excellence
Broadcasting industry of the United States	Award for coverage of the John F. Kennedy assassination and related events
WLW/Cincinnati, OH	Government Under Law
KSTP/St Paul, MN	Open Line, for its promotion of public discussion on important issues, in particular claims of subversives at the University of Minnesota
NBC	American Revolution '63
	Mr. Novak
NBC Radio	The Sunday Night Monitor
WNBC-TV/New York, NY and NBC Radio	The Dorothy Gordon Forum
CBS	CBS Reports, for the 3-part report "Storm Over the Supreme Court"
	The Danny Kaye Show
CBS and Dr. Frank Stanton	Town Meeting of the World
Eric Sevareid (CBS News)	Personal Award for Sevareid's editorial commentaries
Voice of America and Edward R. Murrow	Institutional Award to VOA and Murrow, its former director, for its contributions "to deepened international understanding"
ABC	Saga of Western Man
WGN-TV/Chicago, IL	Treetop House

1964

Recipient	Area of Excellence
Networks and the broadcasting industry	Award for "inescapably confronting the American public with the realities of racial discontent"
CBS	CBS Reports
Intertel (Council of the International Television Federation)	Institutional Award for contribution to international understanding
WBKB-TV/Chicago, IL	Off the Cuff
Burr Tillstrom	Personal Award for Tillstrom's "hand ballet" interpretation of the Berlin Wall's human impact for That Was The Week That Was
Julia Child (WGBH-TV/Boston, MA)	Personal Award for Child's work on The French Chef
William H. Lawrence (ABC)	Personal Award for Lawrence's reporting, analysis, and commentary work
NBC	The Louvre
NBC and Robert Saudek	Profile in Courage
Joyce Hall (NBC)	Personal Award for Hall's work as "an enlightened patron of the television arts" through Hallmark Hall of Fame
WRVR-FM/New York, NY	Riverside Radio

1965

Recipient	Area of Excellence
CBS	A Charlie Brown Christmas
	CBS Reports, for the report "KKK - The Invisible Empire"
	The Mystery of Stonehenge
	The National Driver's Test
CBS Radio	Music 'Til Dawn
CBS and NBC	Joint Institutional Award for the specials My Name Is Barbra (CBS), The Julie Andrews Show (NBC), and Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music (NBC)
ABC	A Visit to Washington with Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, On Behalf of a More Beautiful America
KTLA/Los Angeles, CA	Institutional Award for the station's coverage of the Watts riots
National Educational Television	Institutional Award for the network's "distinguished performance in educational broadcasting," specifically citing History of the Negro People, American Crises, and Changing World: South African Essay
WCCO Radio/Minneapolis, MN	Institutional Award for the station's public service coverage during natural disasters
Xerox Corporation	Institutional Award for its promoting of "international understanding" through presentations of "The Making of the President - 1964, Let My People Go, The Louvre, and the illuminating series on the United Nations"
Elmo Ellis (WSB Radio/Atlanta, GA)	Personal Award for Ellis' editorials, book reviews, and other features for WSB
Frank McGee (NBC)	Personal Award for McGee's special event news coverage
Morley Safer (CBS News)	Personal Award for Safer's reports from the Vietnam War

1966

Recipient	Area of Excellence
ABC	A Christmas Memory
	The Wide World of Sports
WTMJ-TV/Milwaukee, WI	A Polish Millennium Concert
NBC	American White Paper: Organized Crime in the United States
	The Bell Telephone Hour
	Siberia: A Day in Irkutsk
	The World of Stuart Little
WNBC-TV/New York, NY and NBC Radio	The Dorothy Gordon Youth Forum, for "Youth and Narcotics - Who Has the Answer?"
WBKB-TV/Chicago, IL	Kup's Show, for its presentation on the dangers of narcotics
WGN-TV/Chicago, IL	Artists' Showcase
KRON-TV/San Francisco, CA	Assignment Four
CBS	National Geographic Specials
Tom H. John (CBS)	Personal Award for John's art and set design on the CBS specials Color Me Barbra, Death of a Salesman, and The Strollin' Twenties
CBS News	CBS Reports, for "The Poisoned Air"
Harry Reasoner (CBS News)	Personal Award for Reasoner's reportage and essay presentations
WLIB/New York, NY	Community Opinion, a program that provided platforms for and information to residents of New York's Harlem neighborhood
National Educational Television	Institutional Award for excellence in educational television programming, citing NET Playhouse, NET Journal, and U.S.A.: The Arts
Edwin Newman (NBC Radio Network)	Personal Award for Newman's commentary work

1967

Recipient	Area of Excellence
ABC	Africa
NBC	An Evening at Tanglewood
	Meet the Press
NBC Radio	The Eternal Light
NBC Radio and Elie Abel	The World and Washington
CBS	CBS Playhouse
	CBS Children's Film Festival
	The Ed Sullivan Show, in recognition of its 20 years of "presenting a broad spectrum of entertainment"
Eric Sevareid (CBS News)	Personal Award for Sevareid's news analysis and commentary
WIS-TV/Columbia, SC	Mr. Knozit
Bob Hope	Personal Award in honor of Hope's 30th anniversary in broadcast entertainment
Dr. James R. Killian, Jr.	Personal Award to the chairman of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, whose recommendations led to the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
WBBM-TV/Chicago, IL	The Opportunity Line, a series promoting employment opportunities in the Chicago area

1968

Recipient	Area of Excellence
ABC	Award for coverage of the 1968 Winter and Summer Olympics
	Institutional Award for its presentation of The Sense of Wonder, How Life Begins, Sharks: The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, The Road to Gettysburg, Hemingway's Spain, and The Secret of Michelangelo: Every Man’s Dream, documentaries with "exceptional inventiveness"
CBS News	CBS Reports: Hunger in America
WJR/Detroit, MI	Kaleidoscope
National Educational Television	Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
	Playhouse
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc.	One Nation Indivisible
Charles Kuralt	Personal Award for Kuralt's work on CBS News' On the Road
Dr. Leonard Reiffel (WEEI/Boston, MA)	Personal Award for Dr Reiffel's work on WEEI's The World Tomorrow
Robert Cromie and WTTW-TV/Chicago, IL	Book Beat
NBC Radio	Second Sunday
WQXR/New York, NY	Steinway Hall

1969

Recipient	Area of Excellence
NBC	NBC Experiment in Television
	Who Killed Lake Erie?
NBC Radio Network	"On Trial: The Man in the Middle," an episode of Second Sunday
WLIB/New York, NY	Higher Horizons
Voice of America	Institutional Award for "promotion of international understanding"
CBS	J.T. (from the CBS Children's Hour)
	The Japanese
KQED/San Francisco, CA	Newsroom
Bing Crosby	Personal Award in recognition of Crosby's entertainment career
Chet Huntley	Personal Award for Huntley's "major and always dependable contribution to radio and television for over 35 years"
Curt Gowdy	Personal Award to "television's most versatile sportscaster"
Frank Reynolds	Personal Award for Reynolds' anchor and commentary work on ABC Evening News
Tom Pettit	Personal Award for Pettit's investigative reportage for NBC News
National Educational Television	Sesame Street
WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and KCET/Los Angeles, CA (airing on National Educational Television)	The Advocates
WFBM-TV/Indianapolis, IN	The Negro in Indianapolis, a series of programs examining and promoting race relations in the city
WRNG/Atlanta, GA	When Will It End?