Posts Tagged ‘Antiques Roadshow’
From President and CEO Susan Goldberg: Protect GBH Today
On May 1, the White House issued an Executive Order calling on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to immediately cease funding to PBS and NPR.
Read MoreLive Music Television at WGBH: Cosel, Atwood, and Norton
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That’s how we learned how to direct: live. We didn’t have any choice. We did stuff live because we couldn’t afford to record it!
Read MoreGordon Mehlman Shares Memories of WGBH Engineering Innovations
When I applied to WGBH in 1968, I had already interacted with the engineering department and so was lucky enough to be hired immediately.
Read MoreStephen Lyons, 65, Writer/Producer/Director
His family and close friends will always remember his serious demeanor and fierce intellect, leavened by a genuine underlying personal warmth and wry sense of humor.
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 MoreWGBH Rebrands to “GBH”
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 MoreChas Norton receives New England NATAS Gold Circle Award
The esteemed Gold Circle recognizes veteran professionals who for 50 years or more have made significant contributions to their professional community, the television industry, and to individuals training for careers in the TV field.
Read MoreSad news: Kathryn Farrelly and Carl Charlson
Some sad news for the WGBH community: Former ’GBHer Kathryn Farrelly died suddenly of heart failure on Sat, 11/12, and WGBH Series Producer Carl Charlson, died peacefully on Thurs, 11/16 after a battle with ALS.
Read MoreBoston Red Stockings items on ‘Antiques Roadshow’
A “Roadshow’’ guest entered the Javits Convention Center with a stunning trove of old-time baseball stuff inherited from her great-great-grandmother.
Read MoreThe “2-Toy” still survives
In the days when car salesman Ernie Boch used to pop out of a trunk and urge car shoppers to “c’mon down!” on commercial TV, who can forget the hyperbolic copy we wrote offering the 2-Toy as a perk to donors.
Read MoreMark Steele: Editing WGBH
We finished most of the shows that aired on PBS: This Old House, The Victory Garden, Masterpiece Theatre, FRONTLINE, Mystery, NOVA, Evening at Pops, Championship Ballroom Dancing,and An Evening of Championship Skating to name a few.
Read MorePBS takes on the premium channels
Rebecca Eaton: “Downton Abbey is the closest thing to water-cooler television as public television gets.”
Read MoreJohn Kerr featured in national AP story
From the Associated Press Seasonal ranger John Kerr poses in front of the wilds Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007, in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Kerr, 69, retired as the public face of Boston public TV station WGBH and is now a park ranger. (AP Photo by Douglas C. Pizac) More Baby Boomers Head to Mountain West…
Read MoreExecutive leaves public TV powerhouse
From the Boston Globe (excerpts) — 12/8/2006 Executive who oversaw growth of station into a public TV powerhouse will leave behind a legacy of independence WGBH president Henry Becton Jr., who presided over the growth of Boston’s public television station into a national production powerhouse, told the station’s staff yesterday that he will step down…
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