Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions.
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| NBC | Award for the White Paper series of news specials |
| The Shari Lewis Show |
| The Texaco Huntley-Brinkley Report |
| CBS | Award for coverage of the 1960 Winter and Summer Olympics |
| CBS Reports, for Harvest of Shame |
| G.E. College Bowl |
| The Fabulous Fifties, a revue produced by Leland Hayward |
| Dr. Frank Stanton (CBS) | Personal Award for Dr. Stanton's actions that led to the 1960 presidential debates |
| Broadcasting and Film Commission of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S. | Institutional Award for the programs Look Up and Live, Frontiers of Faith, Pilgrimage, and Talk-back |
| KPFK Radio/Los Angeles, CA | Separate Institutional Awards for the stations' locally produced programming |
| WCCO-TV/Minneapolis, MN |
| WCKT-TV/Miami, FL |
| WOOD Radio and WOOD-TV/Grand Rapids, MI |
| Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network | Institutional Award for the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts |
| WQXR/New York, NY | Musical Spectaculars |
| Irene Wicker (WNYC/New York, NY) | Personal Award for Wicker's work on the children's radio program The Singing Lady |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| WNYC/New York, NY | The Reader's Almanac and Teen Age Book Talk |
| BBC Television | An Age of Kings, with recognition to National Educational Television, Metropolitan Broadcasting, individual stations, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and Humble Oil |
| NBC | David Brinkley's Journal |
| The Bob Newhart Show |
| Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait, narrated by Martin Gabel with Lee J. Cobb as Van Gogh |
| ABC | Expedition! |
| Capital Cities Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and executive producer Milton Fruchtman | Award for coverage of the trial of Adolf Eichmann and its summary documentary Verdict for Tomorrow: The Eichmann Trial on Television |
| CBS and Walter Lippman | Institutional Award for television contribution to international understanding |
| Fred W. Friendly (CBS) | Personal Award for Friendly's work in television journalism |
| WFMT/Chicago, IL | Institutional Award for fine arts entertainment |
| WRUL (Worldwide Broadcasting)/New York, NY | Institutional Award for contribution to international understanding for the station's coverage (in English and Spanish) of the United Nations' General Assembly proceedings |
| KSL-TV/Salt Lake City, UT | Let Freedom Ring, featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, starring Richard Boone, Laraine Day, Howard Keel, and Dan O'Herlihy and narrated by Richard L. Evans |
| Newton N. Minow | Personal Award to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| CBS | A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy |
| Carol Burnett (CBS) | Personal Award for Burnett's comedic performances |
| Walter Cronkite (CBS News) | Personal Award for Cronkite's work on The Twentieth Century, CBS Reports, and other work for CBS News |
| ABC | Adlai Stevenson Reports |
| WJR/Detroit, MI | Adventures in Good Music |
| Official Films Inc. | Biography |
| WNDT/New York, NY | Books for Our Time, hosted by August Heckscher II |
| WMAQ/Chicago, IL | Carnival of Books |
| NBC | The DuPont Show of the Week |
| Exploring |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color |
| NBC Radio Network | The Eternal Light |
| William R. McAndrew (NBC News) | Personal Award for McAndrew's "vision and leadership" as NBC News' Executive VP |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | Elliot Norton Reviews, hosted by Elliot Norton |
| Television Information Office and National Association of Broadcasters | Institutional Award for the organizations' study of locally produced children's programming which resulted in the book For the Young Viewer: Television Programming for Children… at the Local Level |
| WQXR/New York, NY | Institutional Award for the station's news presentations in the midst of the New York City newspaper strike |
| KPIX-TV/San Francisco, CA | San Francisco Pageant, a series of historical documentaries profiling the city of San Francisco |
| KNX/Los Angeles, CA | Science Editor, produced by the University of California Extension[1] |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| CBS | A Charlie Brown Christmas[4] |
| CBS Reports, for the report "KKK - The Invisible Empire"[5] |
| The Mystery of Stonehenge |
| National Drivers Test |
| CBS Radio | Music 'Til Dawn |
| CBS and NBC | Joint Institutional Award for the specials My Name Is Barbra (CBS), The Julie Andrews Show (NBC), and Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music (NBC) |
| ABC | A Visit to Washington with Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, On Behalf of a More Beautiful America |
| KTLA/Los Angeles, CA | Institutional Award for the station's coverage of the Watts riots |
| National Educational Television | Institutional Award for the network's "distinguished performance in educational broadcasting," specifically citing History of the Negro People, American Crises, and Changing World: South African Essay |
| WCCO Radio/Minneapolis, MN | Institutional Award for the station's public service coverage during natural disasters |
| Xerox Corporation | Institutional Award for its promoting of "international understanding" through presentations of "The Making of the President - 1964, Let My People Go, The Louvre, and the illuminating series on the United Nations" |
| Elmo Ellis (WSB Radio/Atlanta, GA) | Personal Award for Ellis' editorials, book reviews, and other features for WSB |
| Frank McGee (NBC) | Personal Award for McGee's special event news coverage |
| Morley Safer (CBS News) | Personal Award for Safer's reports from the Vietnam War |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC | A Christmas Memory |
| The Wide World of Sports |
| WTMJ-TV/Milwaukee, WI | A Polish Millennium Concert |
| NBC | American White Paper: Organized Crime in the United States |
| The Bell Telephone Hour |
| Siberia: A Day in Irkutsk |
| The World of Stuart Little[6] |
| WNBC-TV/New York, NY and NBC Radio | The Dorothy Gordon Youth Forum, for "Youth and Narcotics - Who Has the Answer?" |
| WBKB-TV/Chicago, IL | Kup's Show, for its presentation on the dangers of narcotics |
| WGN-TV/Chicago, IL | Artists' Showcase |
| KRON-TV/San Francisco, CA | Assignment Four |
| CBS | National Geographic Specials |
| Tom H. John (CBS) | Personal Award for John's art and set design on the CBS specials Color Me Barbra, Death of a Salesman, and The Strollin' Twenties |
| CBS News | CBS Reports, for "The Poisoned Air" |
| Harry Reasoner (CBS News) | Personal Award for Reasoner's reportage and essay presentations |
| WLIB/New York, NY | Community Opinion, a program that provided platforms for and information to residents of New York's Harlem neighborhood |
| National Educational Television | Institutional Award for excellence in educational television programming, citing NET Playhouse, NET Journal, and U.S.A.: The Arts |
| Edwin Newman (NBC Radio Network) | Personal Award for Newman's commentary work |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC | Award for coverage of the 1968 Winter and Summer Olympics, highlighting the work of Roone Arledge and Chris Schenkel |
| Institutional Award for its presentation of The Sense of Wonder, How Life Begins, Sharks: The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, The Road to Gettysburg, Hemingway's Spain, and The Secret of Michelangelo: Every Man’s Dream, documentaries with "exceptional inventiveness" |
| CBS News | CBS Reports: Hunger in America (reported by Charles Kuralt and David Culhane[7]) |
| WJR/Detroit, MI | Kaleidoscope, hosted by Mike Whorf |
| National Educational Television | Mister Rogers' Neighborhood[8] |
| Playhouse |
| Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc. | One Nation Indivisible (hosted by Roderick MacLeish[9]) |
| Charles Kuralt | Personal Award for Kuralt's work on CBS News' On the Road |
| Dr. Leonard Reiffel (WEEI/Boston, MA) | Personal Award for Dr Reiffel's work on WEEI's The World Tomorrow |
| Robert Cromie and WTTW-TV/Chicago, IL | Book Beat |
| NBC Radio | Second Sunday |
| WQXR/New York, NY | Steinway Hall |
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