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Exhibit Special Features

Awards

Over the past 50 years, Maryland Public Television has earned hundreds of local, regional, and national awards for its outstanding productions, outreach programs, and fundraising efforts – including four national Emmy® awards, 164 regional Emmy® awards, several James Beard Foundation awards for cooking productions, a Peabody Award earned by ITV, the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for journalism, and CINE Golden Eagle awards, among many others.

CPB Bartleby Award

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1978, Award — Excellence in Local Television Programming for "Bartleby, The Scrivener"

Front and back views. Gold with a black cubical stand and gold plate.

Cine Golden Eagle Award, 1989 — for "Other Faces of AIDS"

Front and back views. Gold with a black cubical stand and gold plate.

Golden Wheel Award, 1999 — for "Motorweek - TV Magazine"

Glass award on a silver metal stand.

The James Beard Award for Excellence, 1998 — Best National Television Cooking Program

Front and back view. Gold with a black cylindrical stand and gold plate.

NATPE International Award, 1988 — IRIS Winner for "Crabs #406"

Glass award with a large PBS logo and text.

PBS, 1994 — Award for Excellence in Technical Quality

Front and back views. Gold with a black cylindrical stand and gold plate.

Telly Award, 1996 — for "Numbers Alive - Points Unknown"

Front and back views. Looks like a spring or coil with binary numbers enscribed.

Webby Award, 2005 — for "Knowing Poe"

Front and back views. Looks like a rolling movie tape.

EMPixx Award, Historic Regional Program Category, 2011 — Platinum Award Winner for "Chesapeake Bay Bridge: Spanning the Bay"

About

Every year, Special Collections & University Archives staff work together to create relevant and interesting exhibition on topics that are of interest to the University, the community, and to scholars.

“Made Possible by Viewers Like You: Maryland Public Television Turns 50” celebrates the 50th anniversary of Maryland Public Television (formerly the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting), which occurred in 2019. This website showcases the best of the gallery exhibit on display in the Maryland Room Gallery at Hornbake Library between September 2019 and July 2020.

Exhibition Curator: Laura Schnitker
Graduate Assistant: Kimmi Ramnine
Graphic Designer: Jennifer Paul

With help from: Laura Cleary, and staff from Digital Conversion and Media Reformatting, Preservation and Conservation,  Maryland Public Television, Special Collections and University Archives, EPI Colorspace, and our community members.

Contact Us

Hornbake Library is located on University of Maryland’s College Park campus. This library is home to Special Collections & University Archives, the Maryland Room and Exhibition Gallery.

For general information about the library and our collections, contact us.
For questions about the exhibit and related events, email Laura Schnitker or call 301-405-9255.

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