WGBH is Boston, Massachusetts' longtime public television and public radio station ( PBS and NPR affiliates, respectively). WGBH also produces many shows for both networks, including nearly a third of PBS's prime-time TV. WGBH received its first broadcasting license in 1951 under the auspices of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council , a consortium of local universities which had previously produced programs for broadcast by commercial stations.WGBH is also a leader in services for the disabled. They invented television closed captioning and audio description, created the Rear Window Captioning System for movies and the Descriptive Video Service (DVS).
The "GBH" stands for Great Blue Hill, the location of its transmitter. Great Blue Hill in Milton, Massachusetts has an elevation of 635 feet and is the highest point in the Boston area.
1 Stations
- WGBH-TV 2 (DT 19) Boston
- WGBX-TV 44 (DT 43) Boston
- WGBY-TV 57 Springfield
- WGBH 89.7 Boston
- WCAI 90.1 Woods HoleWoods Hole is a census-designated place and village within the town of Falmouth in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, at the extreme southwest corner of Cape Cod, near the island of Martha's Vineyard, and is the site of two famous scientific institutions:
- WNAN 91.1 Nantucket
2 Shows
- American ExperienceAmerican Experience (sometimes abbreviated AmEx is a television program aired on the PBS network in the United States. The program airs documentaries about important events in American history, many of which have won impressive awards. The documentaries a
- Antiques RoadshowAntiques Roadshow is a human interest television show in which antique appraisers travel across the country. The origin of the series was a 1977 BBC documentary about a London auction house doing a tour of the West Country in England. The show has visited
- ArthurArthur is the eponymous main character of the popular PBS cartoon show based on the Marc Brown books. A member of the aardvark species, Arthur is a third-grader with two younger sisters: precocious four-year-old D. and Baby Kate. Arthur's sibling rivalry
- Between the LionsBetween the Lions is a PBS children's puppet show designed to promote reading. The main characters are the lion cubs Lionel and Leona and their parents Theo (Theodore) and Cleo (Cleopatra). Other characters include Click the Mouse, Barnaby B. Busterfield
- Evening at Pops
- Frontline
- Masterpiece TheatreMasterpiece Theatre (also known as ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theater and earlier Mobil Masterpiece Theater is the title of a long-running television series that premiered on PBS on January 10, 1971 and is produced by WGBH. The show has allowed a large number
- Mystery!Mystery (also written MYSTERY is a long-running television series that premiered on PBS in 1979 and is produced by WGBH. The show has allowed a large number of detective series and television movies, most of them British productions from the BBC or variou
- NOVA
- This Old House
- Zoom
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