Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles’
Rudy Perez Tribute 11/24/1929 – 9/29/2023
By Nancy Mason Hauser I left New York as a critic for “Dance Magazine” in the early 1970s to go to WGBH, Boston’s public television station. Rudy Perez had already been there two years earlier, creating a ground-breaking dance piece for the medium. It was called “District One.” Commissioned to create a site-specific work (pretty…
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 MoreJane Doerfer, 78, producer and author
She wrote cookbooks and was a magazine food columnist. She taught cooking classes and for a time ran a Vermont inn. She had been a WGBH producer and an official with the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities.
Read MoreHenry Morgenthau III, 101, pioneering producer
Henry Morgenthau III, a TV producer and documentarian who helped shape public television in its early days and provided a forum for the nation’s civil rights conversation in the 1960s, died July 11
Read MoreTerri Payne Butler, 62, Children’s TV Producer
Terri was an Executive Producer of Zoom and also consulted on popular children’s television programs, including Captain Kangaroo, and Mister Rogers Neighborhood.
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 MoreHarriet Reisen’s “On the Cover of Time” to be performed July 25 in Gloucester
A new work in progress by long-time WGBH producer/writer Harriet Reisen will be performed on Tuesday July 25, 2017, at Gloucester Stage at 7:30 p.m.
Read MoreSteve Schwartz, 74, Radio Jazz Host
Eric Jackson: “Steve was this warm presence who invited you in when he was on the air with the sound of his voice and the music he played.”
Read MoreEd Joyce, 71, Animation Photographer
As an expert animation photographer, ED JOYCE worked with KEN Burns on epics such as The Civil War, Baseball and Jazz, important works that not only taught us about our past but who we are as part of the American experience.
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 MoreJoe Day, 78, tenacious reporter
As a member of Channel 2’s “The Reporters” team, Joe Day refused to take no for an answer.
Read MoreAmbrosino and Nova: making stories that go ‘bang’
I wanted to examine how the world worked, to use the scientific process of discovery as a narrative device to tell good stories. Producers are a naturally curious lot and good documentaries are made out of that curiosity.
Read MoreLee Tanner, 82, lens captured pulse, personalities of jazz
“I go for the spontaneity of the moment. What I’m looking for is the drama, and whether it’s excitement or repose really depends on what shows up.”
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 MoreJoan Wilson bids for masterpieces
Boston Globe — 12/13/1980 (Found in the Jeremy Brett archive.) It’s been said she has the best job in television. She jets to Europe several times a year — to London, Cannes and occasionally Italy. She hobnobs in New York with powerful oil magnates. She makes critical programming decisions which determine what millions of Americans…
Read MoreRecollections of a WGBH-FM Volunteer (1951-52)
From Russ Butler A small announcement in The Boston Globe caught my attention. It was 1951, and I was a 17-year old junior in a Boston high school and fascinated with radio broadcasting. The one column-inch notice read that a new FM radio station would begin broadcasting from studios in Symphony Hall. Next day, I…
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 MoreWGBH Pioneers: Michael Ambrosino – Part 1 (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 MoreBuilding a Network: EEN (1961-64)
WGBH: The Early Years Skating Around the Rink (1956-60) Building a Network: EEN (1961-64) Going Public (1964-70) From Michael Ambrosino Ed: This is the second of three excerpts from Michael Ambrosino’s autobiography. In the first part, Skating Around the Rink, he described the early years at WGBH, an era of live and live-on-tape TV productions…
Read MoreDavid Liroff on the state of WGBH (video and transcript)
Here are David Liroff’s farewell remarks from his going away party, the “Liroff Liftoff,” on March 21, 2007.
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