Radio: Kudos

Radiomen were polishing their own “Os cars” this week as the annual Peabod. Awards* were announced in Manhattan For the first time, television was officially recognized and captured two awards. Win ners for 1948:

Reporting: Edward R. Murrow (CBS), “has been one of the most reliable anc shining lights in the overcast of new: analysis . . .”

Television: Actors Studio (ABC-TV) “uninhibited and brilliant pioneering in the field of televised drama.”

Children’s Program: Howdy Doody (NBC-TV), “beguiling puppet show . . .

Outstanding Entertainment: University Theater (NBC), “absorbing and skillfully adapted . . .”

Best Comedian: Groucho Marx in You Bet Your Life (ABC), “the only man on the air who can work without a script and bat off a brilliant succession of witticisms . . .”

Music: to NBC for the NBC Symphony, Orchestras of the Nation and the First Piano Quartet, “a record of enterprise to be proud of . . .”

Educational Program: ABC’s documentary Communism—U.S. Brand, which “explained without exaggeration what Communism is …”

International Understanding: to CBS “for its overall contributions . . .”

Special citations for special programs: New York City’s WNEW, Rocky Mountain Radio Council, Boston’s Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, San Francisco’s KNBC, Savannah’s WDAR, western radio stations (for service during last year’s blizzard).

*Radio’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes, established in 1940 to perpetuate the memory of Georgia-born Banker-Philanthropist George Foster Peabody. The awards are administered by the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady School of Journalism, assisted by the National Association of Broadcasters.