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 Public broadcaster PBS won 12 awards, including one for
"League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis" about football's
long-term health risks and "Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy,"
which examined the Jewish roots of American musical theater.
The Peabody Awards recognize the best in television, radio,
Internet broadcasting, producing organizations and individuals.
A record 46 awards were handed out this year.
"House of Cards," which was the first online-streaming show to
win an Emmy award, was praised for Netflix's unique approach of
releasing all the season's episodes at once.
"Netflix took binge viewing to a new level and obliterated the
idea that a hit TV show needs a slot in prime time," the Peabody
panel said.
Netflix Inc's "Orange Is the New Black," about a bisexual woman
reunited with her ex-lover in prison, was lauded for its
"complex, riveting character study rich in insights about
femininity, race, power, and the politics, inside and outside
prison walls, of mass incarceration."
Alex Gibney's documentary, "Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the
House of God," about a Catholic priest who sexually abused
hundreds of deaf children earned a Peabody for HBO.
The Time Warner Inc-owned premium cable network also picked up
awards for documentaries "Six by Sondheim," on musical theater
composer Stephen Sondheim and "Life According to Sam," about a
teenager with the early onset aging disease progeria.
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The Peabody panel, which also honors international and local
programs, awarded a prize to Boston's WBZ-TV and WBZ Newsradio for
their "non-sensational coverage" of last year's Boston Marathon
bombings and subsequent manhunt.
Other notable winners include Comedy Central's racially incisive
sketch comedy show "Key & Peele," AMC drug drama "Breaking Bad" and
ABC's political thriller "Scandal" about a Washington, D.C. fixer.
International programs honored were Danish political drama "Borgen,"
the Pakistani animated series "Burka Avenger" about female
empowerment and Philippine network GMA's coverage of November's
Typhoon Haiyan that killed more than 6,000 people.
Longtime NBC news reporter and anchor Tom Brokaw, 74, was given an
individual Peabody Award for career achievement and in particular
for the his work on long-form news reports after leaving the "NBC
Nightly News" program in 2004.
A 16-member board of critics, experts, and news and entertainment
industry insiders select the winners of the annual awards handed out
by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass
Communication.
The winners will be honored at a ceremony in New York on May 19.
(Reporting by Eric Kelsey; editing by Patricia Reaney and Richard
Chang)
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