Peabody Award
Awarded for	Excellence in radio and/or television broadcasting
Presented by	Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia
Country	United States
First awarded	1940
Official Website	http://www.peabody.uga.edu/

The George Foster Peabody Awards (Peabody Awards) are annual, international awards for excellence in radio and television broadcasting. First awarded in 1941 for programs from the previous year, they are one of the oldest honors in electronic media. Lambdin Kay, public-service director for WSB radio in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, is credited for creating the award, named for businessman and philanthropist George Foster Peabody, who donated the funds that made the awards possible.^[1] The awards are administered by the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia (UGA).

The Peabody Awards honor distinction and achievement in the United States within the fields of broadcast journalism, documentary film making, educational and children's programming, and entertainment.

The Peabody Awards were originally only for radio, but in 1948, television awards were introduced. In the late 1990s additional categories for material distributed via the World Wide Web were added. Materials created solely for theatrical motion picture release are not eligible.

[edit] Recipients

1940s	1940  · 1941  · 1942  · 1943  · 1944  · 1945  · 1946  · 1947  · 1948  · 1949
1950s	1950  · 1951  · 1952  · 1953  · 1954  · 1955  · 1956  · 1957  · 1958  · 1959
1960s	1960  · 1961  · 1962  · 1963  · 1964  · 1965  · 1966  · 1967  · 1968  · 1969
1970s	1970  · 1971  · 1972  · 1973  · 1974  · 1975  · 1976  · 1977  · 1978  · 1979
1980s	1980  · 1981  · 1982  · 1983  · 1984  · 1985  · 1986  · 1987  · 1988  · 1989
1990s	1990  · 1991  · 1992  · 1993  · 1994  · 1995 · 1996  · 1997  · 1998  · 1999
2000s[dated info]	2000  · 2001  · 2002  · 2003  · 2004  · 2005  · 2006  · 2007  · 2008

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site