George Foster Peabody... Peabody Awards.

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

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The Peabody Awards for the best in television and radio for 1961.

Speakers:
Dean John Drewry;
Chairman, Bennet Cerf;
Ralph Brendt (?), WRUL, United Nations Radio
Seymour Siegel, WNYC (Reader's Almanac and Teenage Book Talk)
Norman Pellegrini, WFMT
Fred Friendly, CBS
Ted Fetter and V. Fae Thomas, ABC
Bob Newhart, NBC
Milton Fruchtman, Capital Cities Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Kenneth Adam, BBC
Raymond Woodcalfe (?) NETVRC
Lou Hazam, NBC
Arch L. Madsen, let freedom ring, KSL
Michael Grilikhes, CBS
David Brinkley, NBC
Newton N. Minow, FCC



Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 73618
Municipal archives id: LT9369

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