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The 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 MoreFred Barzyk’s Video Archive
From Fred Barzyk For the last decade, I have been gathering my shows and transferring them to digital format. These videos will be released as a highlight reel of my archive to be housed at WGBH and Marquette University. This highlight reel is directed toward researchers in the year 2100. It is my attempt to…
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 MoreAn Early “Discovery” – Nature in a Live TV Studio
We spent a wonderful half hour learning how the bats could navigate their maze. Unfortunately that meant that the studio was full of flying bats, so viewers of the news were then treated to occasional pictures of bats swooping over Louis Lyons as he read the day’s news!
Read MoreIs it Real or Is it a Set?
What do you think? Are these historical photos or from a 2020 set?
Read MoreHBO orders full season of new series: “Julia”
HBO has ordered “Julia,“ a drama series inspired by cookbook author, chef, and TV show host, Julia Child. The show, which already filmed its pilot, will continue filming the rest of its eight episode first season in Boston this spring.
Read MoreNews at Ten
The News at Ten was WGBH’s first nightly news program and Boston’s first 10:00 pm news program. It aired for a year beginning in the spring of 1966.
Read MoreHow Handel and Haydn Society kept up the “Messiah” tradition in its 167th year
After months of planning, eight H+H choristers arrived at GBH’s Brighton studios on a crisp November morning to record “Handel’s ‘Messiah’ for Our Time,” a slimmed-down, socially distanced joint production set to premiere Sunday, Dec. 20.
Read MoreSusan Dowling: Memories of WGBH (1979-1993)
I remember the projects at the WBGH New TV Workshop as the most exciting. I felt I was part of ground-breaking efforts with video artists and choreographers.
Read MoreWhy We Turned to PBS: WGBH Programs and Captioning
The New York Times: We asked our writers to reflect on PBS’s lasting imprint on our culture, while Rachael Ray, Gary Clark Jr., Damon Lindelof, Kal Penn and others share first-person reminiscences about the television that changed their lives.
Read MoreMolly of Denali wins awards
“Molly of Denali,” the groundbreaking PBS Kids series produced by Boston’s GBH, won two major awards in its first season: a Peabody and the 2020 Television Critics Association award for outstanding achievement in youth programming.
Read MoreJohn Kerr: Shifting (video)
John Kerr had three wonderful children, and worked happily for decades as the main fundraiser for WGBH, Boston’s public television & radio station. Then things shifted.
Read MoreMeeting the original Rocky, 1964
Rocky was a bit shorter, was dressed conservatively in slacks and a sports jacket that showed that he was in very good shape. I figured he must have been Fernandes’ bodyguard. I had no idea what Frankie did for Fernandes.
Read MoreWhy has WGBH had such an impact? Five views
Fred Barzyk: “I have asked several long time producers at WGBH to take a crack at the question of ‘Why does WGBH, a local public TV station in Boston, have such an impressive impact on media, culture and innovation?’ What follows are several responses to the question.”
Read MoreFrom 1976: What Makes WGBH Crackle With Creativity?
“What accounts for this particular station’s superiority in not only quantity but quality of public‐TV programming? Who provides the inspiration behind such innovative productions?”
Read MoreWGBH Rebrands to “GBH”
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WGBH today announced new branding, dropping the broadcast-centric “W” from its name and adopting a new logo. Going forward, the organization will be known as GBH.
Read MoreControl Rooms Across the Decades
A walk down the memory lane of control rooms past and present.
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