PEABODYS FETE RADIO, TELEVISION'S BEST.Byline: The New York Times CBS News and three Oklahoma City television stations were among the 33 television and radio organizations honored Thursday with a George Foster Peabody
CBS News won for its coverage of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and the three stations for their reporting on the terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City. The awards, for excellence in broadcast and cable television, are administered by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications. Other winners included Barbara Walters of ABC News, for her interview with Christopher Reeve; Oprah Winfrey, for her work on talk shows; and PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, , for the documentary ``Hoop Dreams.'' The NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. drama ``Homicide'' was the only prime-time television series honored. Among the other winners: ``Blind Justice: Who Killed Janie Fray?'' WJR WJR Woodcock Johnson-Revised Radio, Detroit, an investigative report on an innocent man in prison. ``Kevin's Sentence,'' Canadian Broadcasting Corporation “Radio-Canada” redirects here. For the French language TV arm of the CBC, see Télévision de Radio-Canada. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. , Toronto, a portrait of the impact of drunken driving. ``St. Paul Sunday,'' Minnesota Public Radio Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) is a regional public radio network based in the U.S. state of Minnesota that has been broadcasting since 1967. The network includes more than 50 FM transmitters ranging from low-power translators in small and hard-to-reach areas up to full-power , St. Paul, Minn., a music and entertainment series. Oscar Brand, WNYC, New York, an award for helping preserve folk music. ``Wynton Marsalis: Making the Music/Marsalis on Music,'' National Public Radio, Washington and Sony Classical Film and Video for PBS. ``The Peavy Investigation,'' WFAA-TV, Dallas, investigation of a school board. ``Truth on Trial,'' ABC News ``20/20,'' about false charges of child abuse. ``Target Seven: Armed and Angry,'' WXYZ-TV, Detroit, on the militia movement. ``New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. School Corruption,'' WCBS-TV, New York. ``50 Years After the War,'' Television Broadcasts Ltd., Kowloon, Hong Kong. ``The Dying Rooms,'' a Cinemax Reel Life Presentation of a Lauderdale Production for Channel 4, London, and Cinemax, New York, an investigation of child abuse. ``Road Scholar,'' Public Policy Productions Inc., in association with Thirteen/WNET, New York, presented on PBS, a tour of America with the writer, humorist and commentator Andrei Codrescu. ``Rock-and-Roll,'' WGBH-TV, Boston, and BBC Bristol, a history of the genre. ``Peter Jennings Reporting Peter Jennings Reporting was a continuing series of documentaries produced and hosted by the late ABC News anchor Peter Jennings that aired on ABC. Many of these documentaries were produced by Peter Jennings's production company, PJ Productions, and are currently distributed : Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped,'' ABC News. ``Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation,'' a Discovery Journal Special, Discovery Channel, Bethesda, Md., and Brian Lapping Associates for BBC London. ``CBS Reports: In the Killing Fields of America,'' CBS News, on roots of American violence. ``Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter,'' P.O.V./Deborah Hoffman, New York, presented on PBS, a daughter's experience with her mother's Alzheimer's disease. ``Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream,'' Turner Original Productions, Tollin/Robbins and Mundy Lane in association with Television Production Partners. ``The Private Life of Plants,'' Turner Original Productions and BBC Natural History, London. ``Coming Out Under Fire,'' Deep Focus Productions, Los Angeles, presented on PBS, homosexuals in the military. ``Wallace and Gromit,'' Aardman Animations in association with Wallace & Gromit Ltd., BBC Children's International, BBC Bristol and BBC Lionheart Lionheart can refer to: People
``Frontline: Waco: The Inside Story,'' WGBH-TV, Boston. |
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