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