For 61 years, the University of Georgia has honored broadcast excellence with the George Foster Peabody Awards.

        WCPO-TV (Channel 9), which will receive the award May 20 for Laure Quinlivan's Visions of Vine Street documentary, was the only North American commercial TV station this year among the 34 winners selected from more than 1,100 entries.

        Miss Quinlivan and Channel 9 won a Peabody in 2000 for stories about Paul Brown Stadium construction.

        Channel 9 also won Peabodys for Elaine Greene's interview with James Hoskins, after he had taken hostages in the station in 1980, and Pat Minarcin's investigation of Drake Hospital serial killer Donald Harvey in 1987.

        WVXU-FM (91.7) won a Peabody in 1995 for its 12-hour D-Day Plus 50 Years documentary.

        WLW-AM (700) has won three: for public service in 1940 (the first year); news reporting in 1944; and Government Under Law in 1963.

        Other winners this year include ABC News, National Public Radio, CNN, Nightline, 60 Minutes II, The Bernie Mac Show, Band of Brothers, Boycott, Third Watch, Blue's Clues, Little Bill and the Sept. 21 America: A Tribute to Heroes TV concert.

        The award was named after a Georgia native and New York banker who died in 1938.

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