WGBH Educational Foundation
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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 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,[3][4] a syndicate of public radio programming; and for its role in the development of closed captioning and audio description technologies for broadcast television.
History
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In the 1990s, the WGBH Educational Foundation published books and other educational materials such as Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery.[5]
In 2003, WGBH and the City of Boston formed a joint venture for Boston Kids & Family TV channel that replaces one of the city's cable access channels. Boston Kids was launched on October 31, 2003.[6]
By December 2005, Boston’s WGBH and New York City's
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.[9]
In November 2015, WGBH purchased GlobalPost, with editorial operation and reporting resources being merged with PRI's The World news staff.[10]
On August 27, 2020, it 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
Board of trustees
The presidents of four regional universities are institutional trustees:
The remaining board members are:
- Amy Abrams, wife of Abrams Capital founder David C. Abrams
- Terrie F. Bloom, wife of Berkshire Partners managing director Bradley Bloom
- Laura A. DeBonis, former Google Books manager and wife of hedge fund executive and State Department official Scott Nathan[13]
- Juan Enriquez, managing director of Excel Venture Management and husband of Cabot family heir Marjorie Cabot Lewis
- Ann L. Gund, wife of architect Graham Gund
- Susan B. Kaplan, daughter of Stanley H Kaplan and president of the Kaplin Family Foundation
- Marjie B. Kargman, wife of Commonwealth Capital Ventures founder Robert Kargman
- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, sociologist
- William A. Lowell, partner of the Choate, Hall & Stewart law firm
- Richard K. Lubin, managing director of Berkshire Partners
- Oscar F. Malcolm, president of Darien Capital Management
- Christopher J. McKown, husband of Fidelity Investments executive Abigail Johnson
- Cathy E. Minehan, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
- Paul R. Murphy, former partner at the Foley Hoag law firm and former counsel for Amherst College
- James Rabb
- Genzyme Corporation
- David Mugar
- Hans Ziegler, retired senior managing director of Bernstein Global Wealth Management
Units
- First 8 Studios, learning mobile app design group for kids ages 8 and younger
- Forum Network, a Lowell Institute funded online lecture
- GlobalPost
- PBS Distribution, a joint venture with PBS to distribute PBS and WGBH programs to various markets, home video, foreign, and commercial
- PBS LearningMedia, a joint venture with PBS to distribute teacher material related to PBS programs
- WGBH Education
Radio
WCAI, WNAN, and WZAI are the Cape, Coast, and Islands (CCI) NPR stations, serving part of southeastern Massachusetts.[14]
Former Radio Properties
- Public Radio International (merged with Public Radio Exchange in 2018)[3][4]
Television
- WGBH-TV: the foundation's flagship station
- WGBX-TV: its secondary Boston station
- WGBY-TV: Springfield, Massachusetts station; Operated by New England Public Media under a program service operating agreement.
- Create (TV network), a joint venture network with American Public Television (APT), WGBH, WNET, and National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA).[15]
- World Channel, a joint venture network with WNET, NETA, and APT.[15]
Public Media Management
 | This section's factual accuracy may be compromised due to out-of-date information. The reason given is: PMM is no longer directly owned by GBH.. (June 2021) |
Public Media Management is a joint venture of WGBH and
Public Media Management was tested for a year.
See also
- Ralph Lowell, president of the foundation (1951–1970s)[19]
References
- ^ "Ownership Report For Noncommercial Educational Broadcast Station". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. December 1, 2015. Retrieved December 23, 2017.
- ^ "WGBH Educational Foundation on the Forbes The 100 Largest U.S. Charities List". Forbes. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ a b Falk, Tyler (August 15, 2018). "PRI, PRX merge to form new organization". current.org. Current. Retrieved January 16, 2020.
Public Radio International and PRX will merge under an unusual arrangement that allows both to maintain separate identities and program portfolios.
- ^ a b Beard, David (August 20, 2018). "Merger of 2 public radio outsiders has something for both". poynter.org. Poynter Institute. Retrieved January 16, 2020.
Last week, the two public radio experimenters announced they would merge.
- ISBN 978-0-15-100339-6.
- ^ Ryan, Suzanne C. (October 31, 2003). "City revives kids' PBS channel". Boston Globe. The New York Times Company. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
- ^ "Knight Foundation backs launch planning for PBS's Public Square". Current. December 19, 2005. Archived from the original on April 26, 2016. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ Egner, Jeremy (April 3, 2006). "World and Go! streams flow into PBS plans". Current. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ Everhart, Karen (July 26, 2012). "WGBH, the top producer of PBS programs, now owns Public Radio International". Current. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ Yu, Roger (September 24, 2015). "Boston-based WGBH buys world news site GlobalPost". USA TODAY. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
- ^ Wyllie, Julian (August 31, 2020). "To change with the times, WGBH drops its 'W' and pivots to purple". Current. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
WGBH in Boston is removing the 'W' from its branding to become 'GBH.' [...] The legal name for the organization will remain the WGBH Education Foundation. The 'W' will also remain in its FCC registration.
- ^ "WGBH is dropping the 'W' from its name. Here's why". Boston.com. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
- ^ WGBH Spring 2009
- ^ "About Us". WCAI. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
- ^ Current.org. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
- ^ a b Halonen, Doug (April 16, 2015). "Sony, WGBH roll out cloud-based alternative to master-control systems". Current. American University School of Communication. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
- ^ TV Technology. NewBay Media. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
- Baltimore Sun. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
- ^ "Ralph Lowell Award". USA: Corporation for Public Broadcasting. July 20, 2015. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
External links
- Official WGBH Educational Foundation website
- WGBH alumni website
- forum-network.org
- first8studios.org
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