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For the radio station specifically, see WGBH (FM). WGBH-TV WGBH (897 FM MHz) is a Public radio station located in Boston Massachusetts.

WGBH-TV
Image:WGBH web logo.png
Boston, Massachusetts
Branding WGBH Boston
Slogan Produced in Boston, Shared with the World
Channels Analog: 2 (VHF)

Digital: 19 (UHF)
Affiliations PBS
Owner WGBH Educational Foundation
First air date May 2, 1955
Call letters’ meaning Great Blue Hill — see below
Sister station(s) WGBH (FM), WGBX-TV, WCAI, WNAN
Former affiliations NET (1955-1970)
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700 kW (digital)
Height 335 m (analog)
374 m (digital)
Facility ID 72099
Transmitter Coordinates 42°18′37.2″N, 71°14′11.7″W
Website www.wgbh.org

WGBH is a non-commercial television and radio broadcast service located in Boston, Massachusetts. The watt (symbol W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one Joule of energy per Second. Height above average terrain ( HAAT) (or less popularly EHAAT, Effective Height Above Average Terrain is used extensively in FM Radio and The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International The facility ID number or FIN is a unique positive integer assigned by the United States Federal Communications Commission to each domestic and international A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. WGBH is a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service, and has produced many programs for the network, including nearly a third of PBS's national primetime programming. The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the Programs produced for PBS include NOVA, Frontline, American Experience, The Victory Garden and This Old House. Nova is a Popular science Television series from the US produced by WGBH Boston Frontline is a public affairs television program of varying length produced at WGBH in Boston Massachusetts, and distributed through the American Experience (sometimes abbreviated AmEx) is a Television program airing on the PBS network in the United States The Victory Garden is an American Public television program about Gardening and other Outdoor activities produced by station This Old House is an American Home improvement Magazine and Television series which is aired on the American public

WGBH operates several radio and television stations in Boston and the surrounding area, including sister station WGBX-TV, and the radio stations WGBH, WCAI, and WNAN. WGBX-TV ('GBH 44 is a Public television station located in Boston Massachusetts. WGBH-TV WGBH (897 FM MHz) is a Public radio station located in Boston Massachusetts. WCAI ( Woods Hole Massachusetts, 901 WNAN ( Nantucket, 911 and WZAI ( Brewster, 94 WCAI ( Woods Hole Massachusetts, 901 WNAN ( Nantucket, 911 and WZAI ( Brewster, 94

WGBH is also considered a leader in services for people who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind, or visually impaired. WGBH invented television closed captioning, audio description (Descriptive Video Service), and created the Rear Window Captioning System for films; they provide these access services to commercial and public TV producers, and to home video, Web sites, and movie theaters nationwide. Closed captioning is a term describing several systems developed to display text on a Television or Video screen to provide additional or interpretive Audio description refers to an additional Narration track for blind and Visually impaired consumers of visual media including Television and The Descriptive Video Service (DVS is a major US producer of Video description, which makes visual media such as television programs feature films and home videos The Rear Window captioning system (RWC is a method for presenting through Captions a transcript of the audio portion of a Film in Theatres for Deaf

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History

For more of a history of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council see the article on John Lowell, Jr.

WGBH Educational Foundation received its first broadcasting license (for radio) in 1951 under the auspices of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, a consortium of local universities and cultural institutions, whose collaboration stems from an 1836 bequest by textile manufacturer John Lowell, Jr. calling for free public lectures for the citizens of Boston. Lowell Institute, an educational foundation in Boston Massachusetts, U John Lowell Jr ( May 11, 1799 &ndash March 4, 1836) was a US businessman early Philanthropist, and through Lowell Institute, an educational foundation in Boston Massachusetts, U John Lowell Jr ( May 11, 1799 &ndash March 4, 1836) was a US businessman early Philanthropist, and through

WGBH Radio Boston signed on at 89. WGBH-TV WGBH (897 FM MHz) is a Public radio station located in Boston Massachusetts. 7 MHz FM on October 6, 1951, with a live broadcast of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The original construction permit for Channel 2 in Boston went to Raytheon, an electronics company based in neighboring Waltham, Massachusetts, who would have launched a commercial television station under the call letters WRTB-TV (for Raytheon Television Broadcasting). Raytheon Company ( is a major American Defense contractor and industrial corporation with core Manufacturing concentrations in Defense systems One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States WRTB never made it on the air, opening the way for the FCC to allocate Channel 2 for noncommercial purposes and for WGBH to receive a license to operate on that channel.

WGBH-TV Channel 2 went on the air on May 2, 1955, at 5:20 p. Events 1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) m. with studios located at 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. Cambridge Massachusetts is a City in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. When a fire [1] destroyed the studios in the early morning hours of October 14, 1961, WGBH-TV Channel 2 and WGBH 89. Events 1066 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill seven miles from Hastings, the forces Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 7 FM signed-on from the studios of other broadcasting stations until they were able to build their new studios located at 125 Western Avenue in Allston, and sign on there on August 29, 1963. Events 708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708) Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. WGBH moved to a new studio complex on Market Street in Brighton in June, 2007. Brighton is a neighborhood of the City of Boston, Massachusetts, located in the northwest corner of the city

WGBH was New England's first non-commercial television station and a pioneer in what is now known as Public Television. Public broadcasting refers to radio television and other electronic media outlets that receive some or all of their funding from the public Many programs seen on National Educational Television and later, the Public Broadcasting Service, originated at the facilities of WGBH or were otherwise produced by the station. National Educational Television was an educational Television network in the USA from 1952 to 1970 The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the

Transmission facilities

"GBH" stands for Great Blue Hill, the location of WGBH's FM transmitter, as well as the original location of WGBH-TV's transmitter. Great Blue Hill is a hill of 635 feet (194 m located within the Blue Hills Reservation in the eastern part of the U Great Blue Hill in Milton, Massachusetts, has an elevation of 635 feet (193 m) and is the highest point in the Boston area. Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and part of the Greater Boston area A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International Today, WGBH-TV's and WGBX-TV's transmitters are located at the CBS digital television facility in Needham, Massachusetts, where channel 44 originally signed on September 25, 1967; channel 2 moved there on June 18, 1966. CBS Corporation () is an American Media conglomerate focused on Broadcasting, Publishing, Billboards, and Television Needham is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Events 303 - On a voyage preaching the Gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Events 618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. WGBX-TV's digital service on channel 43 shares the master antenna at the very top of the tower with the commercial stations. Analog channel 44 has a separate antenna lower down that is shared with WGBH-DT on channel 19.

WGBH operates a Shaw Broadcast Services satellite uplink facility which provides Boston broadcast television stations to Canadian cable and satellite TV distributors. Shaw Satellite Services ( French: Services de Radiodiffusion Shaw) is a Canadian company responsible for providing and managing the As a Canadian company, Shaw is not legally entitled to operate an uplink facility in the United States. Hence, it pays WGBH to perform this service on its behalf. This facility is also located at the CBS (WBZ-TV) tower in Needham. WBZ-TV, channel 4 is an owned-and-operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Boston Massachusetts.

Studios

WGBH's original studios were located at 84 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts (presently Stratton Student Center) on the campus of MIT until the building burned down in a 1961 fire. Cambridge Massachusetts is a City in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. Three years later, after being based in temporary offices and using the studios of Boston's commercial television stations to produce local programming, the station moved to 125 Western Avenue in the Allston neighborhood of Boston. Allston is a neighborhood of Boston Massachusetts, USA, located in the western part of the city The ZIP code of the station and its post-office box—PO Box 350, Boston, Mass 02134—was made famous in a recurring jingle on its 1970s and late 1990s children's program, ZOOM. The ZIP code is the system of Postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 ZOOM was an American Educational Television show, created almost entirely by Children, which aired on PBS from

As WGBH's operations in grew, the 125 Western Avenue building proved inadequate; some administrative operations were moved across the street to 114 Western Avenue, with an overhead pedestrian bridge connecting the two buildings. By 2005, WGBH had facilities in more than a dozen buildings in the Allston area. The station's need for more studio space dovetailed with Harvard Business School's desire to expand its adjacent campus; Harvard already owned the land on which the WGBH studios were located. Harvard Business School ( HBS) is a renowned Business school in the United States WGBH built a new studio complex, designed by James Polshek & Partners, in nearby Brighton, spanning the block of Market Street from Guest Street to North Beacon Street, with radio studios facing pedestrian traffic on Market Street. James Stewart Polshek (born 1930 Akron Ohio) is an American Architect based in New York City. Beacon Street is a major thoroughfare in Boston Massachusetts and several of its western suburbs The postal address and lobby entrance of the new studio building is 1 Guest Street; it was inaugurated in June, 2007. Television shows and radio programs continued to shoot at the Western Avenue studios until migration to the new facility reached completion in September 2007. The old Western Avenue studios have since been demolished. [2]

Callsign history

WGBH's original transmitter was located on Great Blue Hill in Milton, Massachusetts (thus the choice of WGBH as a callsign) and the FM radio transmitter is still there. Great Blue Hill is a hill of 635 feet (194 m located within the Blue Hills Reservation in the eastern part of the U Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and part of the Greater Boston area As a result, all of WGBH's TV stations have the WGB* form; channel 44 in Boston has WGBX (supposedly for Great Blue Experimental), while channel 57 in Springfield, Massachusetts has WGBY for Great Blue Yonder. Springfield is a City in and the County seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. WGBY-TV is a PBS station licensed to the city of Springfield Massachusetts. There was to be a WGBW in Adams, Massachusetts at one point that would have operated on channel 35; its W was to stand for West. WGBW (1590 AM) is a Radio station in Two Rivers Wisconsin. The call letters were assigned in September 2006 the station was previously known as Adams is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The callsign has since been reassigned to a radio station in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. WGBW (1590 AM) is a Radio station in Two Rivers Wisconsin. The call letters were assigned in September 2006 the station was previously known as Two Rivers is a city in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States.

WGBH's callsign is occasionally jokingly expanded as "God Bless Harvard", although the station's connections with the university are at best indirect. (Harvard was one of several Boston-area universities which took part in the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, and provided land on Western Avenue in Allston for the station's studios. )

Identification and sounder

See also: WGBH idents

WGBH's distinctive audio sounder has been aired for more than 30 years, accompanied by different animating graphics. Television station WGBH Boston has been a major source of PBS programming for over four decades and over the last three decades its identification The first such logo appeared in 1972 and can be found on the first episode of ZOOM. ZOOM was an American Educational Television show, created almost entirely by Children, which aired on PBS from The seven-second jingle begins with a bluish green background, with the letters "WGBH" in a yellow Helvetica font zooming away from the viewer. Helvetica is the name of a widely used Sans-serif Typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss Typeface designer Max Miedinger. Then, the word "Boston" zooms forward (similar in motion and gradual enlargement to the V symbol in Viacom's 1976 to 1985 identification), engulfing the whole screen and creating a yellow background, after which the word "Presents" slowly zooms forward in bluish green. This ident is generally believed to be extinct, but it has surfaced on tapes of old WGBH programming (such as the 1970s version of ZOOM, The French Chef, and pre-1978 NOVA episodes) and in video clips. ZOOM was an American Educational Television show, created almost entirely by Children, which aired on PBS from The French Chef was an influential early television Cooking show created by Julia Child, and produced and broadcast by WGBH in Boston Nova is a Popular science Television series from the US produced by WGBH Boston A black-and-white version from 1974 has also surfaced.

The same music is also used in the current ID. The "circle outline" ident, featuring two little lights forming the WGBH logo in orange (once finished, an orange "flash" began behind the outline and changed to reveal "Boston Presents" in its place) began in late 1978 at the beginning of WGBH's national shows and is among the most famous idents such as WNET's "Radar" signature. WNET, channel 13 is a television station licensed to Newark New Jersey. Sometime in the mid- or late 1980s, this ident, with its jagged electronic tune and dark neon lighting, had been reported to have frightened younger viewers, (indeed, many people who viewed this logo as children recollect how they feared it [3] and in wake of this, was shortened to just the latter half and moved to the end of shows in 1993, when the sound effect was shortened to conform to PBS's desire for shorter station ID's. It is also edited out on some shows with a program's closing credits music playing over the WGBH Boston production card, such as on Arthur and Between the Lions. Closing credits, inside a Motion picture or Television program come at the end of a movie or show and list all the cast and crew involved in the production Arthur is a long-running American and Canadian educational Television series for children, that airs on PBS in the United States Between the Lions is a PBS children's puppet show designed to promote reading

The full seven-second music appears in the "neon" station IDs on WGBH itself, along with different animation for the outline logo; one version features the 1993-style version flashing out to reveal the PBS logo, while the other features the outline done at first from the point of view of the tracing line, then zooming out to reveal the 'WGBH' logo.

Channels and digital services

WGBH-TV

This is the main television service of WGBH, as it is the television station first licenced by the Foundation. (This is Comcast Channel 2 and in HD Channel 702/802. Comcast Corporation ( is the largest Cable television company the second largest Internet service provider and (according to the company the fourth largest telephone )

WGBX-TV

Main article: WGBX-TV

Similar to WQED-TV in Pittsburgh, WGBH operates a secondary station, WGBX-TV. WGBX-TV ('GBH 44 is a Public television station located in Boston Massachusetts. WQED (channel 13 digital channel 38 is a PBS Television station based in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. The current tagline for this station is "independent, original, 'GBH 44". It functions as a secondary station to WGBH-TV, and focuses more promenently on program genres not covered by WGBH-TV. Reruns of the previous night's programming either from WGBH-TV or from WGBX-TV itself makes up a part of this station's programming.

Other TV services

WGBH is one of six local Boston TV stations seen in Canada on the Bell ExpressVu satellite provider. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page

At one point, WGBH operated a Hyannis translator on channel 8 that had the W08CH call sign, which later ceased operations. Hyannis is the largest of seven villages in the town of Barnstable Massachusetts, on Cape Cod It was deleted by the FCC in 2004. [4]

WGBH Online

The internet is WGBH's "third platform" - All radio and television programs have web components that are available at wgbh. org. There are also "web-only" productions:

Digital Television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels

Channel Programming
2. 1 Main WGBH programming
2. 2 WGBH HD

Major WGBH television productions


Online

Podcasting

Notable people who have appeared regularly in WGBH productions

Footnote

  1. ^ Fire Ravages WGBH. Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5 1958 in New York City) is an Astrophysicist and since 1996 the Frederick P NOVA scienceNOW is a Newsmagazine version of the venerable PBS science program Nova. Christopher Lydon (born in Boston Massachusetts, in 1940 is an American media personality and author Michael Edmund Kolowich (born August 28, 1952) is a documentary filmmaker and Executive producer of DigiNovations a Multimedia Production Steve Curwood (born in Roxbury Massachusetts on December 11 1947 is a journalist author public radio personality and actor The Tech. The Tech, first published on November 16 1881 is the oldest and largest campus newspaper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge Massachusetts Retrieved on 2007-09-12. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the
  2. ^ http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2007/09/16/new_building_reflects_wgbhs_purpose/ New building reflects WGBH's purpose Boston Globe retrieved 09-21-2007
  3. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHyxC5PoaOU YouTube video of the various WGBH logos. The Boston Globe (and Boston Sunday Globe) is the most widely circulated daily Newspaper in Boston and in New England, Comments left by users tell how scary this logo was seen by children.
  4. ^ Call Sign History. CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved on 2006-02-19. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 197 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum

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