24-611: WGBH may refer to: WGBH Educational Foundation , based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States WGBH (FM) , a public radio station at Boston, Massachusetts on 89.7 MHz owned by the WGBH Educational Foundation (Formerly branded as WGBH 89.7, now branded as GBH 89.7) WGBH-TV , a public television station at Boston, Massachusetts owned by the WGBH Educational Foundation (Formerly branded as WGBH 2, now branded as GBH 2.) WGBX-TV ,
48-599: A children's channel branded under the name WETA Kids . By February 2009, WETA only aired a daily three-hour children's morning block on its primary channel, clearing the afternoon for general audience programs like Charlie Rose , travel shows, repeats of the previous night's prime time shows, movies, documentaries, and miniseries. WETA decided to drop Create due to the network moving to being fee-based on July 1, 2012, and perceived lack of programming flexibility. WETA How-To lifestyle programming replaced Create in January 2012. How-To
72-471: A group of NPR member stations in the state. It also owns WGBY-TV in Springfield , which is operated by New England Public Media under a program service agreement . Nationally, WGBH is known as the distributor of a number of major PBS programs, including American Experience , Arthur , Frontline , Masterpiece , and Nova , among others; as the owner of Public Radio International until 2018,
96-588: A live Major League Baseball game to the National Press Club ; the digital facility was activated for full-time broadcasting in November 1998. With the national closure of the PBS Kids network in 2005, WETA did not become a PBS Kids Sprout partner. By April 2006, the station had added World programming to a subchannel prior to its January 2007 launch as a nationwide network. In 2007, WETA started broadcasting
120-535: A need to educate the public about brain injuries, in 2008 WETA, in partnership with the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, launched BrainLine.org. The site features videos, webcasts, recent research, personal stories, and articles on preventing, treating, and living with traumatic brain injuries . In 1997, WETA tested its new full-power digital transmitter by broadcasting the first-ever high definition telecast of
144-626: A political discussion program that became the station's first program to be syndicated nationally to other non-commercial educational stations and is now the network's longest-running public affairs program. Around 1970, the Greater Washington Educational Television Association changed its name to the Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association to reflect the oversight of the new WETA (FM) . In 1971,
168-626: A public television station at Boston, Massachusetts owned by the WGBH Educational Foundation (Formerly branded as WGBH 44, now branded as GBH 44) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title WGBH . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WGBH&oldid=1176551556 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
192-554: A syndicate of public radio programming; and for its role in the development of closed captioning and audio description technologies for broadcast television. In the 1990s, the WGBH Educational Foundation published books and other educational materials such as Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery . In 2003, WGBH and the City of Boston formed a joint venture for Boston Kids & Family TV channel that replaces one of
216-621: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WGBH Educational Foundation The WGBH Educational Foundation , doing business as GBH since August 2020, is an American public broadcasting group based in Boston, Massachusetts . Established in 1951, it holds the licenses to all of the PBS member stations in Massachusetts , and operates its flagship station WGBH-TV , sister station WGBX-TV , and
240-494: The Cape , Coast , and Islands (CCI) NPR stations, serving part of southeastern Massachusetts . Public Media Management is a joint venture of WGBH and Sony Electronics for remote TV master control services over the internet. Public Media Management was tested for a year. The services were available starting April 1, 2015, just before the two Las Vegas shows, PBS's April 8–10 TechCon and NAB Show April 11–16, to be able to showcase
264-753: The Ken Burns documentaries and A Capitol Fourth . In 1952, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocated 242 channels for non-commercial use across the United States; channel 26 was allocated for use in Washington, D.C. In 1953, the Greater Washington Educational Television Association (GWETA) was formed to file for a channel 26 construction permit, joining the D.C. Board of Education . The Board of Education would drop its bid in 1954. GWETA credits Elizabeth Campbell with having founded
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#1732852223162288-632: The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, it is a sister station to NPR member WETA (90.9 FM). The two outlets share studios in nearby Arlington, Virginia ; WETA-TV's transmitter is located in the Tenleytown neighborhood in Northwest Washington . Among the programs produced by WETA-TV that are distributed nationally by PBS are the PBS NewsHour , Washington Week , and several cultural and documentary programs, such as
312-520: The United States. In 1995, WETA acquired CapAccess , an interactive computer network. From that acquisition, WETA helped connect public schools, public libraries and local government agencies to the Internet. In 1996, WETA launched its first national educational project, LD Online, a website that seeks to help children and adults reach their full potential by providing accurate and up-to-date information and advice about learning disabilities and ADHD . It
336-783: The city's cable access channels. Boston Kids was launched on October 31, 2003. By December 2005, Boston’s WGBH and New York City's WNET were already broadcasting a local version of World on a subchannel. and added by April 2006, Washington’s WETA . Then, WGBH and WNET teamed up with PBS, APT and NETA to roll out a national version of the local channels as PBS World. The network was launched nationally on August 15, 2007. In July 2012, WGBH acquired Public Radio International (PRI). PRI would continue with its own board while WGBH would be able to distribute more of its programs through PRI. In November 2015, WGBH purchased GlobalPost , with editorial operation and reporting resources being merged with PRI's The World news staff. On August 27, 2020, it
360-578: The first televised class being aired on October 16. WETA originally operated out of Yorktown High School in Arlington; the station later relocated its operations to the campus of Howard University in 1964. Rapid growth led a station that had been described as having "a rough time meeting the monthly bills" in 1963 to even pursue thoughts of a second channel in 1965. In 1967, WETA began producing Washington Week in Review (now simply titled Washington Week ),
384-403: The organization's formal name. All other WGBH-owned and operated stations similarly dropped the W from their respective brandings, such as WCRB rebranding as "CRB Classical 99.5". Richard M. Burnes Jr. of Charles River Ventures is the chair of the board as of 2014, replacing Amos Hostetter Jr. , who left the board. Henry P. Becton Jr. , former WGBH President, and Maureen L. Ruettgers ,
408-454: The organization. In the early days, before it was granted a license for its own channel, GWETA produced educational programming for WMAL-TV and WTTG . An application was finally filed on May 3, 1961, and approved on June 12, for a construction permit for the channel. GWETA was eventually granted a license by the FCC to activate channel 26; WETA-TV first signed on the air on October 2, 1961, with
432-416: The parents and educators of older students who struggle with reading, WETA launched Adlit.org in 2007. AdLit.org is a multimedia educational initiative offering research (articles, instructional strategies, school-based outreach events, professional development webcasts, and book recommendation) to develop teens' literacy skills, prevent school dropouts , and prepare students for the demands of college. Seeing
456-470: The service during the shows. WGBH's two Boston stations went live with PMM first followed by its Springfield, Massachusetts station WGBY in early May 2015. New Hampshire Public Television launched the system next. In August 2015, Maryland Public Television switched to using their system. WETA-TV WETA-TV (channel 26) is the primary PBS member television station in Washington, D.C. Owned by
480-400: The station begin producing shows for the newly-formed National Public Affairs Broadcast Center (later National Public Affairs Center for Television), a group led by PBS for its news programming. In 1972, the producing organization National Public Affairs Center for Television merged into WETA. In 1992, WETA broadcast the first publicized over-the-air high-definition television signal in
504-729: The wife of former EMC Corporation CEO Michael Ruettgers , are vice chairs. Jonathan C. Abbott , as WGBH president, is also on the board. William N. Thorndike Jr. , managing partner of the Housatonic Partners private equity firm, is on the board of trustees as the chair of the WGBH board of overseers. The presidents of four regional universities are institutional trustees: Joseph E. Aoun of Northeastern University , Jackie Jenkins-Scott of Wheelock College , Frederick M. Lawrence of Brandeis University , and L. Rafael Reif of MIT . The remaining board members are: WCAI, WNAN, and WZAI are
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#1732852223162528-417: Was announced that WGBH would shorten its name to "GBH" as part of a larger corporate reimaging (which saw the adoption of purple as a new corporate color, and a font originally commissioned for Red Hat as its new corporate typeface). The foundation stated that due to its present-day multi-platform operations, the full WGBH call sign was too synonymous with broadcast media; "WGBH" will still be used as part of
552-410: Was joined in 2001 by Reading Rockets, a multimedia project offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read , why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help. In 2003, Reading Rockets spun off Colorín Colorado, a free web-based service that provides information, activities, and advice for educators, and Spanish-speaking families of English language learners (ELLs) . To support
576-477: Was replaced by WETA UK on July 4, 2012, after an analysis of audience and local viewers' demand for British programs. The station's signal is multiplexed : Channel 26.2, "WETA UK", is a subchannel programmed in-house with a schedule of shows produced in the United Kingdom . Channel 26.5, "WETA Metro", is also produced in-house and focuses on timeshifted rebroadcasts of news programming and reruns that interest
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