WGBH
Boston, Massachusetts
Branding	WGBH Boston
Slogan
Analog channel	2 (VHF), 44 (UHF)
Digital channel	19 (UHF), 43 (UHF)
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	WGBH Educational Foundation
Founded	1951 (FM), 1955 (TV)
Call Letters meaning	W Great Blue Hill
Former affiliations	Independent
Website	www.wgbh.org

WGBH is an established public television station for Boston, Massachusetts, affiliated with public radio stations (PBS, and NPR & PRI). WGBH produces many shows for these networks, including nearly a third of PBS's national prime-time TV. These programs include Nova, Frontline, American Experience, The Victory Garden, and This Old House. It is one of six local Boston TV stations seen in Canada on the Bell ExpressVu satellite provider. The license-holder is the WGBH Educational Foundation. capture from TV, adjusted contrast, brightness and hue, multiplied two different frames together in photoshop to reduce noise This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... Nickname: Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe), Athens of America Location in Massachusetts Founded  -Incorporated September 17, 1630 1820, as a city  County Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 232. ... This article is about the concept in marketing. ... Look up Slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A slogan is a memorable phrase used in political or commercial context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose. ... For the Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact publication, see Astounding Magazine. ... Very high frequency (VHF) is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz (wavelength 10 m) to 300 MHz (wavelength 1 m). ... This article is about the radio frequency. ... A digital signal is a signal that is both discrete and quantized. ... This article is about the radio frequency. ... This article is about the radio frequency. ... An affiliate is an entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity. ... PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... Wiktionary has a definition of: Foundation This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In radio (including television), a callsign or call sign (also call letters) is a unique designation for amateur, broadcast, and sometimes military radio use, as well as for broadcast television. ... An affiliate is an entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia website. ... Public broadcasting (also known as public service broadcasting or PSB) is the dominant form of broadcasting around the world, where radio, television, and potentially other electronic media outlets receive funding from the public. ... Nickname: Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe), Athens of America Location in Massachusetts Founded  -Incorporated September 17, 1630 1820, as a city  County Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 232. ... Public broadcasting (also known as public service broadcasting or PSB) is the dominant form of broadcasting around the world, where radio, television, and potentially other electronic media outlets receive funding from the public. ... PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ... Public Radio International, or PRI, is a not-for-profit corporation based in the United States founded in 1983 to develop non-commercial audio programming for public radio and other audio venues. ... Nova is a popular science television series produced by WGBH and licensed to the Public Broadcasting Service of the United States and its affiliates. ... Frontline is an hour-long public affairs television program produced at WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, and distributed through the Public Broadcasting Service network in the United States. ... American Experience (sometimes abbreviated AmEx) is a television program aired on the PBS network in the United States. ... The Victory Garden is about gardening and other outdoor activities. ... This Old House is a television program on the American public broadcast network PBS that follows remodeling projects of houses over a number of weeks. ... Bell ExpressVu is the division of Bell Canada which sells digital television services in Canada. ...

Recognized for its contributions to non-commercial educational television programming, WGBH is also a leader in services for people who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind, or visually impaired. WGBH invented television closed captioning and the Descriptive Video Service (DVS), and they provide those access services to commercial TV programs as well as public TV, and to home video, Web sites, and movie theaters nationwide. Closed captioning allows deaf, hard of hearing / hearing_impaired, and other people to read, through captions, a transcript of the audio portion of a video that they cannot hear. ...

For more than thirty years, WGBH's on-air TV signature has been the synth-and-animation logo that now appears at the close of each PBS program it produces. The original seven-second piece began appearing at the beginning of WGBH's national shows in the 1970s, accompanied by different visuals—including the "outline" design that is the WGBH emblem. The audio "sounder" now appears as a three or four-second stinger. This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ...

History

WGBH received its first broadcasting license in 1951 under the auspices of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, a consortium of local universities and cultural institutions, whose collaboration stems from an 1836 bequest by textile manufacturer John Lowell, Jr. calling for free public lectures for the citizens of Boston. 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... John Lowell, Jr. ...

WGBH-TV Channel 2 went on the air on May 2, 1955, at 5:20pm with studios located at 84 Massachusetts Avenue until a fire destroyed the studios in the early morning hours of October 14, 1961. After going to so many studios, and on August 29, 1964, WGBH-TV Channel 2 and WGBH 89.7 FM signed-on from new studios at 125 Western Avenue in Allston. May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in Leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Transmission Facilities

"GBH" stands for Great Blue Hill, the location of WGBH's FM transmitter, and the original location of WGBH-TV's transmitter as well. Great Blue Hill in Milton, Massachusetts has an elevation of 635 feet (193 m) and is the highest point in the Boston area. Today, WGBH-TV's and WGBX-TV's transmitters are located at the Viacom digital television facility in Needham, Massachusetts, where channel 44 originally signed on September 25, 1967; channel 2 moved there on June 18, 1966. WGBX-TV's digital service on channel 43 shares the master antenna at the very top of the tower with the commercial stations; analog channel 44 has a separate antenna lower down shared with digital WGBH-TV on channel 19. Milton is a town located in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. ... This article is about a foot as a unit of length. ... The metre, (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ... Viacom (short for Video & Audio Communications) [pronunciation: pre-Redstone/pre-1987: vee-a-com; post-Redstone acquisition: vi-a-com] NYSE: VIA, NYSE: VIAB is an international media conglomerate. ... Needham is a town located in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. ... September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years). ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...

WGBH operates a CANCOM satellite uplink facility which provides Boston broadcast television stations to Canadian cable and satellite TV distributors. (As a Canadian company, CANCOM is not legally entitled to operate an uplink facility in the United States and so pays WGBH to perform this service on its behalf.) This facility is also located at the Viacom tower in Needham. CANCOM is the common name for Canadian Satellite Communications, Incorporated, which is owned and controlled by Shaw Communications Inc. ...

Studios

WGBH's original studios were located in building W20 (presently Stratton Student Center) on the campus of MIT until the building burned down in a 1963 fire. The building was rebuilt, but by the time of completion, the station had moved to its present location on Harvard University property in the Allston neighborhood of Boston. The ZIP code of the station and its post-office box—02134—was made famous in a recurring jingle on its 1970s and late 1990s children's program, "Zoom." In 2006, WGBH will move to new studios in Boston's Brighton neighborhood. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a world leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Allston is a diverse neighborhood in the city of Boston, Massachusetts with a population which includes Boston natives, students from neighboring Boston University, Boston College, MIT and Harvard and various ethnic groups such as Chinese, Vietnamese, Brazilian, and Irish. ... Mr. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining the same mindset. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Brighton is a section of the City of Boston in the US Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ...

Channels and Digital Services

• WGBH-TV 2 Boston (DT 19)
• WGBX-TV 44 Boston (DT 43)
• WGBH World (WGBX-DT and digital cable)
• WGBH Create (WGBX-DT and digital cable)
• 'GBH Kids (WGBX-DT and digital cable)
• WGBH On Demand (digital cable)
• WGBH High Definition (WGBH-DT and digital cable)
• Boston Kids & Family TV (Boston cable)
• WGBY-TV 57 Springfield
• WGBH 89.7 Boston
  • in Nantucket heard on WNCK 89.5
  • in East Cambridge heard on W242AA 96.3
• WCAI 90.1 Woods Hole
• WNAN 91.1 Nantucket

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Major WGBH Productions

Television

• American Experience
• Antiques Roadshow
  • Antiques Roadshow FYI
• Arthur
• Between the Lions
• Evening at Pops
• French in Action
• Frontline
  • Frontline/World
• Masterpiece Theatre
• Mystery!
• Nova
  • Nova Science Now
• Peep and the Big Wide World
• Postcards from Buster
• Simply Ming
• This Old House
• The Victory Garden (television program)
• ZOOM

American Experience (sometimes abbreviated AmEx) is a television program aired on the PBS network in the United States. ... Antiques Roadshow is a human interest television show in which antique appraisers travel across the country. ... Arthur is the name of an animated series that airs on PBS in the United States. ... Between the Lions is a PBS childrens puppet show designed to promote reading. ... French in Action is a language course developed by Professor Pierre Capretz of Yale. ... Frontline is an hour-long public affairs television program produced at WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, and distributed through the Public Broadcasting Service network in the United States. ... Masterpiece Theatre is a long-running television series produced by WGBH that premiered on PBS on January 10, 1971. ... Mystery! (also written MYSTERY!) is a long-running television series that premiered on PBS in 1979 and is produced by WGBH. The show has allowed a large number of detective series and television movies, most of them British productions from the BBC or various ITV companies, to air on American... Nova is a popular science television series produced by WGBH and licensed to the Public Broadcasting Service of the United States and its affiliates. ... Peep and the Big Wide World is an animated cartoon that teaches nature and science to preschoolers. ... This Old House is a television program on the American public broadcast network PBS that follows remodeling projects of houses over a number of weeks. ... The Victory Garden is about gardening and other outdoor activities. ... The word zoom has several meanings: The word zoom is an example of onomatopoeia that indicates swiftness. ...

Radio

• Celtic Sojourn
• Says You
• Sound & Spirit
• The World (co-produced with the BBC)

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On-line

• The WGBH Forum Network

External link

• WGBH Educational Foundation