TV Guide Award
annual award prior to 1964, and again from 1999-2001
The TV Guide Award was an annual award created by the editors of TV Guide magazine, as a readers poll to honor outstanding programs and performers in the American television industry. The awards were presented until 1964. The TV Guide Award was revived 1999–2001.
1950s
Ellery Queen won a TV Guide Award in 1950 for Best Mystery Show on Television.
The Lucky Strike ads of the early 1950s won the first TV Guide award as commercial of the year.
The trophy was a bronze statuette of a heroic figure holding a filigree globe.
The 1952 TV Guide Magazine award was given to Zoo Parade, which also won the 1950 George Foster Peabody Award and the 1951 Look TV Award.
American Bandstand was featured on its second anniversary in the Philadelphia issue of TV Guide, which said it was "the people's choice" for a 1954 TV Guide award. The magazine had been founded the year before by Walter Annenberg, owner of American Bandstand.
1960–64
In 1961 the TV Guide Award was cited by the Associated Press as one of the three important entertainment awards, together with the Academy Awards and the Emmy Awards.
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