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AND THE WIN
Peabody awards
announced today
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
MTVs “Decade,” ABCs ‘The
Wonder Years," and television cov
erage of last spring's Chinese stu
dent uprising are among 27
winners of the 1989 George Foeter
Peabody Awards for distinguished
broadcasting
The Peabody Awards program,
often called the “Pulitzer Prize of
broadcast journalism,' has been di-
-ected by the College of Journalism
and Mass Communication for 50
years.
The awards will be presented at
the Peabody Awards Golden Anni
versary dinner April 3 in Atlanta's
World Congress Center.
The winners were chosen from
512 entries submitted by radio and
television stations ana networks in
the United States and other coun
tries.
Winner* are chosen by a 15-
member national advisory board
that includes broadcast magazine
executives, television critics, diplo
mats, journalism educators, com
munications executives and
lawyers.
The awards are named for
George Foster Peabody, a Co
lumbus, Ga., native who was a suc
cessful New York banker and
philanthropist.
Past winners include Edward R.
Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Barbra
Streisand, Fred Astaire, Mikhail
Baryshnikov, "60 Minutes" and
“Roots."
Since the awards’ inception, the
College of Journalism has kept all
entries, more than 22,000 of them,
stored in the sub-basement of the
Julian Goodman and Edward Cramer of the 15 member
Peabody Awards board: Awards are presented April 3
main library.
The names of the 1989 Peabody
Award winners appear below,
along with selected comments.
Radio winner*
• KCBS-AM, San Francisco,
Calif, for "Earthquake 89," which
covered the October 1989 disaster.
• CBS Radio News, New Ycek,
for "China in Crisis," which cov
ered the events at Tiananmen
Square.
• National Public Radio, Wash
ington, D.C., for Scott Simon’s
Radio Essays, presented on
“Weekend Edition Saturday."
• Canadian Broadcasting Cor
poration in Toronto, Ontario, for
“Lost Innocence: The Children of
World War II." \
• D. Roberts, independent pro
ducer, American Public Radio’s
“Soundprint" series, for “Mex Mei:
A Daughter’s Song,” about the cul
tural gap between a daughter and
her foreign-bom mother.
• Texaco, Inc. and the Metropol
itan Opera Association Inc., hon
oring a half-century of continuous
Saturday afternoon radio broad
casts, the longest continuing
sponsorship of a national program
in broadcasting history.
Television winners
• WCSC-TV, Charleston, S.C.,
for providing a “lifeline for viewers
deprived of water, communications
and other essential services” after
Hurricane Hugo.
• KGO-TV, San Francisco,
Calif, for public service after the
1989 earthquake, “functioning as
ARE...
an information clearinghouse* for
viewer*.
• KING-TV, Seattle, Wash., for
“Project Home Team," about the
working poor.
• KRON-TV, San Francisco,
Calif, for “I Want to Go Home,"
about the plight of homeless chil
dren in San Francisco.
• Cable New* Network in At
lanta for coverage of the China
crisis.
• Central Independent Tele
vision, London, for “Cambodia
Year Ten," an examination of that
nation’s plight since the Pol Pot re
gime.
• MTV, New York, for Decade,”
a look at the 1980* as seen through
the eyes of music performers and
newsmakers.
• CBS Television and Motown-
Pangaea Productions, in associa
tion with Quintex Entertainment,
for the made-for-TV movie "Lone
some Dove."
• ABC Television and Black-
/Marlens Company, in association
with New World Television, for
“The Wonder Years.”
• ABC Television and Secret
Inc., in association with Warner
Bros. Television, for “China Beach:
Vets,” an episode which recounts
the experiences of American
nurses in combat
• ABC Television, Lou Rudolph
Films, Motown Productions, and
Allarcom and Fries Entertain
ment, for “Small Sacrifices,"in
which Farrah Fawcett portrays a
woman accused of shooting her
children.
• Beyond International Group,
Sydney, Australia, for "The Great
Wall of Iron,” a behind-the-scenes
examination of the Chinese Peo
ple’s liberation Army, “completed
only weeks before the infamous
events in Tiananmen Square.”
• HBO, New York, for “Common
Threads: Stories from the Quilt,’ a
look at the lives of AIDS victims.
• KCNC-TV, Denver, Colo., for
“Yellowstone: Four Seasons After
Fire,” an in-depth look at the park
after the fire of 1988 and an exami
nation of its recovery.
• Public Affairs Television, New
York, for ‘The Public Mind," Bill
years.
• Film News NowThe American
Documentary, New York, for “Who
Killed Vincent Chin?,” called by
the judges “a penetrating examina
tion of a murder in Detroit re
vealing the racism, class conflict
and media power which permeate
modem America.”
• Children’s Television
Workshop, New York, for “Sesame
Street,” lor its two decades of edu
cation through the television me
dium.
• NBC News, New York, for
“NBC News Special: To Be an
American.”
Personal Awards
Lassie: picks up his 1956 Peabody Broadcasting Award
Moyers’ critical look at public
opinion formation and change in
America and how the media affect
basic social institutions.
• WLOX-TV, Biloxi, Miss., for
“Did They Die in Vain?,” an exami
nation of Mississippi’s progress in
race relations during tne past 25
• David Brinkley of ABC-TV, a
personal award.
• J. Leonard Reinsch, a pioneer
in broadcasting, cable and political
communication, “for a lifetime of
outstanding service to his chosen
profession."
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