In the Press
Is 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 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 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 reaps huge windfall in sale of broadcast spectrum
WGBH, the public media organization, will receive $218.7 million in exchange for moving the over-the-air signals of its WGBH and WGBY stations from frequencies on the UHF band to the VHF band.
Read MoreFormer Executive Producer Henry Morgenthau Releases New Book
“Henry Morgenthau’s poems are crisp, elegant forays into memory both personal and cultural.”
Read MoreWGBH captioners featured in the Globe
WGBH’s Media Access Group spells out the dialogue and sounds of about 14,000 hours of television, movies, and online video each year.
Read MoreBoston-based ‘Frontline’ names new executive producer
Frontline founder David Fanning has stepped down after three decades as the executive producer of the landmark public television series.
Read MoreMorash to receive Lifetime Achievement Emmy
Norm Abram: “As a brilliant creator/producer/director, Russ Morash has used his personal passion and love for well prepared food, gardening, home improvement/repair and woodworking to develop a whole new genre of television programs.”
Read MoreNOVA digitally recreates the invasion of Normandy
Among the show’s highlights: three-dimensional simulations of the landing craft that brought troops ashore, the gliders that dropped American commandos deep inside Nazi-occupied France, and a pair of vast portable harbors used to unload thousands of tons of supplies onto the beaches
Read MoreThe Victory Garden is back
“Victory Garden’s edibleFEAST” to combine classic clips from The Victory Garden with new segments.
Read MoreRoger Fisher, 90, creator of “The Advocates”
New York Times: Fisher created and moderated “The Advocates,” a court-style program that took on one policy issue at a time and examined it in detail from different perspectives.
Read MoreFrench in Action lauded as one of 10 best language-learning programs
Performed in French without subtitles, French in Action is supposed to prevent students from translating words in their heads, so that they will learn the language in context.
Read MoreWGBH wants to be your master control
The noncommercial Boston station is developing a new business as a centralcasting hub.
Read MoreWGBH’s acquisition of Public Radio International: news and analysis
The PRI acquisition makes WGBH a player nationally for public radio staples such as thoughtful public affairs programming.
Read MoreIn protest, jazz-style funeral for Eric Jackson’s show
From the Boston Globe – 7/6/2012 Eric Jackson hosted his last weeknight show on WGBH-FM (89.7) Thursday night, and thanks to local saxophonist Ken Field, he went out with a funeral. Field, who hosts a show on WMBR-FM (88.1), led a New Orleans-style funeral outside the WGBH building in Brighton to protest the station’s recent cuts in…
Read MorePublic broadcasters ponder political ads
From the Boston Globe: Public radio and television stations are weighing the opportunities and risks of accepting political advertising following a federal court ruling that found an existing ban on such ads violates the First Amendment.
Read MoreSightings: Jean Shepherd on the Charles
From Dan Beach: Here is Jean Shepherd on the dock behind the Museum of Science for his first TV show with Fred Barzyk in 1961.
Read MorePBS takes on the premium channels
Rebecca Eaton: “Downton Abbey is the closest thing to water-cooler television as public television gets.”
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