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The Money Room: So What?
John Kerr: The corporate officer I saw was eager to learn about ways to fund PBS programs. John Carver then sealed the deal. That visit led to a grant to WGBH of $300,000 to help fund NOVA.
Read MoreThe Money Room: Cold Calls Pay Off
Sam Tyler: Whom do I call? Why? Is this the right person? Can I wrangle a meeting? That was always the key – get yourself into an office and you might have a chance.
Read MoreThe Money Room: Of Eggs, Sliders, and Gum
John Carver: He got up from his desk, went to his conference table and produced a copy of AD WEEK, the weekly industry rag that we all pretend to read. I wished then that I had read it.
Read MoreThe Money Room: Auction Plays Cupid
Sam Tyler: Companies loved the Auction. Employees answered the phones and the CEO would sell off a table or two. Everyone had a good time.
Read MoreThe Money Room: Wrong Turn in New Jersey
John Carver: I think he took pleasure in my predicament and wanted to see how I handled it.
Read MoreThe Money Room: Fundraising Goes National
John Kerr: The corporate officer I saw was eager to learn about ways to fund PBS programs. John Carver then sealed the deal. That visit led to a grant to WGBH of $300,000 to help fund NOVA.
Read MoreThe Money Room: “Pledging” Begins at WGBH
John Kerr: Jeanne Brodeur called the phone company and bagged a dedicated and easy-to-remember phone number for us — 492-1111.
Read MoreThe Money Room: Singing for His Supper
John Kerr: Having the president of WGBH sing for his supper seemed an idea worth trying.
Read MoreThe Money Room: How I Got Back to ‘GBH
John Kerr: We selected a large, sturdy golf umbrella with a wooden handle. Our brilliant new Yale-trained Design Director Chris Pullman and his colleagues Doug Scott, Gene Mackles and others helped make it distinctive with its blue, green and white panels and WGBH’s new drop-shadowed logo.
Read MoreThe Money Room: A Life-changing Adventure
John Kerr: A viewer called to say that she enjoyed having all of us in her home asking for money on her television, but that we had left the lights on when she went up to bed.
Read MoreThe Money Room: The Ask That Wasn’t
David Ives knew just about everybody in Boston. This made my job coordinating The WGBH Independence Fund much easier than anticipated.
Read MoreThe Money Room: How This Old House Was Built
Russ handed me a one-page sell sheet with no particulars … no real budget or definition, no host, and definitely no house.
Read MoreThe Money Room: How I Got There
John Kerr: Having finished college in 1960, I locked my Ideor racing bike to a post near Tech Drugs and climbed the stairs at 84 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge.
Read MoreHow much does PBS reflect the audiences it was intended to serve?
In 1967, amid widespread civil unrest, CPB was created by an Act of Congress “to expand and develop a diversity of programming dependent on freedom, imagination and initiative on both local and national levels.” … Fifty-one years later, as we undergo another societal breakdown and racial reckoning, how much does PBS reflect the audiences it was intended to serve?
Read MoreVideo: WGBH’s Years at MIT
A video history reveals the connections between MIT and public television station WGBH, where the station started broadcasting in 1955.
Read MoreDavid Silver on Bud Collins, Julia Child, Fred Barzyk, and more
As a 23 year old on-camera TV neophyte, watching Julia’s completely honest and wonderfully natural television presentations, actually helped me in my own slightly panicky weekly approach to hosting a television show.
Read MoreHenry Becton tours 125 Western Avenue
The Harvard Innovation Lab invited Henry Becton, President of WGBH Educational Foundation from 1984 until October 2007, to tour 125 Western Ave., the iLab’s new home.
Read MoreIt was short, but what a ride!
From Dave Svens: This short film clip was taken during WGBH’s election coverage in November, 1966. Host Bob Baram is interviewing the newly elected US Senator from Massachusetts, Edward Brooke, who was the first African-American senator elected by popular vote.
Read MoreJean Shepherd tells his first WGBH story
From Fred Barzyk: I first heard Jean on the radio in Boston. It was 1961. I was babysitting my young son and, while idly scanning radio stations, I heard this person, this intense personal voice, talking to me.
Read MoreRemembering the original WGBH
From Art Singer: Fifty one years ago this past September, on several late afternoons a week, I would take the twenty minute walk from BU across the Charles to the station’s studios on the MIT campus for a night’s work.
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