Posts Tagged ‘Sesame Street’
Tony Saletan, 94, Folk Musician and Producer
Saletan was the first person to appear on WGBH, Channel 2, when Boston’s public educational television station made its on-air debut on May 2, 1955.
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 MoreCelebrating ZOOM’s 50th Anniversary
Over the course of six seasons, millions of American children watched ZOOM, and they responded to its exhortation to participate by sending in an average of 10,000 letters every week.
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 MoreWe Were the TV Generation
I got pulled to work on a kids’ TV show called ZOOM and was on the pilot and the first season. The show was a big hit… I quickly aged out of that as if I was in Menudo.
Read MoreThe Make-Believe Clubhouse
The Make-Believe Clubhouse seems, on reflection, to have been a magical experience for many of us. One of the children who guested on the show at about aged 7 still remembers it as magical to this day.
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 MorePeggy Charren, 86, children’s TV pioneer
Jon Abbott: “Peggy Charren … took on the giants of the commercial television industry in the 1970s and brought about substantive programming and legislative changes that bettered the lives of millions.”
Read MoreKenneth Anderson, 75, lighting director and production manager
One of his first gigs was as a lighting director at Boston’s WGBH for its signature series, The French Chef starring Julia Child. He met Bill Aucoin there, Kiss’ former manager who helped catapult the band after its formation in 1972.
Read MoreTo PBS, With (Tough) Love
From Bill Moyers: Public television has faithfully provided an enormous national stage where non-fiction films can be seen by far more people than could ever buy tickets at the handful of movie houses willing to put documentaries up on their theater screens.
Read MoreProposal for The Science Program Group for Public Television (1973)
From the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Mr. Ambrosino’s report outlines the plan for the creation of a science programming group for public television.
Read MoreDave Davis, 81, WGBH Producer, Director, Manager
From Fred Barzyk At the age of 81 Dave passed away on May 23, 2007, in the kitchen of his home in Guyana. He and his wife Joyce had been retired and playing Jazz around the islands since 1993. From WGBH QuickNooz (by permission) — 8/20/2007 Sad news from the Caribbean: Former WGBH Station Manager…
Read MoreWGBH Timeline (1946-1978)
From “The first 24 years: A somewhat random compendium of milestones along the way.”
Read MoreWGBH-TV Broadcast Schedules (1955-69)
From Peter Wiggins Tuesday May 10, 1955 5:30 p.m. – Adventures in Art 6:00 – Images 6:30 – News (with Louis M. Lyons) 7:15 – U.N at Work 7:30 – Trilogy 8:00 – Your Child 9:30 – Sign-Off Friday November 4, 1955 5:30 p.m. – Come and See 6:00 – Discovery 6:30 – News (with…
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