Posts Tagged ‘Greg Harney’
Live 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 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 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 MoreCelebrating Michael Ambrosino: Alumni Stories
Stories shared at the celebration of Michael Ambrosino’s career in October 2019
Read MoreWGBH at the Emmys
Skip Wareham shared this photo of a Boston/New England Emmy Award ceremony from the 1981. Can you help us identify everyone?
Read MoreMultimedia: Remembering the James Brown concert that calmed Boston
Ambrosino had already begun assembling “the one group of guys who could pull off such a last-minute live broadcast: producer Russ Morash, director David Atwood, along with (crew) Al Potter and Greg Harney.”
Read MoreFred Barzyk’s Snapshots: Scene 5 – Opera, Film, and a Dream
I always dreamed of doing an original TV musical. Raposo and Lehrer were willing to work on the musical for no money. What we needed was a play.
Read MoreFred Barzyk’s Snapshots: Scene 1
This is the first in a series of reminiscences by Fred Barzyk, longtime WGBH producer and director.
Read MoreFrom the Vault: Video interviews with WGBH pioneers
Between 1992 and 2013, Fred Barzyk, Joe Anderson, Henry Becton, and Michael Ambrosino conducted over 100 hours of interviews with dozens of former WGBH-TV and FM staffers.
Read MoreThe 2015 Alumni Reunion Party: We Need You!
We’ve heard from over 100 Alums already, but we need to hear from YOU! The sooner we have a head count, the sooner we can firm up plans for this very special day.
Read MoreHelp us catalog WGBH “firsts” in national public media
We’re looking for your recommendations, corrections, and confirmations of WGBH’s national innovations over the decades.
Read MoreDavid Wheeler, 86 legendary Boston theater director
Fred Barzyk: David Wheeler and his company performed many of their stage plays in WGBH studios under the direction of Greg Harney. It was a real collaboration between a theater director and TV director.
Read MoreThe foundations of WGBH: 84 Mass. Ave.
From Don Hallock: Many extraordinarily-gifted figures and luminaries of the day — in the arts, science, politics and education — found their ways into the halls and studios of the original WGBH-TV/FM studios at 84 Massachusetts Avenue.
Read MoreA stranger in a strange land
From Fred Barzyk: Bill insisted I try to get into the scholarship program. You studied for your graduate degree at Boston University and worked three days a week at the Educational Television station. Free tuition and you got $600 to live a year in Boston!
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.
Read MoreDavid Atwood: Getting started at WGBH
From David Atwood Needing a job fresh out of college in the fall of 1965 I made an alphabetical list of Boston’s TV stations. The first was WBZ. I set out from Woburn, found WBZ and went in looking for work. They said they might start me in the mail room. I was devastated. I…
Read MoreA tribute to Dave Davis
From Don Hallock As I remember, a 30 year old Dave Davis came to us at WGBH-TV from the University of North Carolina campus TV in 1957. That was the same year I, at 19, began in the scene shop as assistant to Peter Prodan. Dave was a musician and veteran television Producer-Director. He succeeded…
Read MoreWGBH Pioneers: Michael Ambrosino – Part 2 (1998)
Michael Ambrosino — the creator of NOVA — describes his early years at WGBH, an era of live and live-on-tape TV productions at the 84 Massachusetts Avenue studio in Cambridge.
Read MoreGoing Public (1964-1970)
From Michael Ambrosino: I’ve never considered myself an intellectual; my memory and thought processes are just not good enough for true intellectual work. I do, however, have an insatiable curiosity and enjoy the world of ideas.
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