Tag: WGBH
Live from Boston: A marathon of coverage
Edgar B. Herwick III, a features reporter for WGBH, was enjoying his field assignment on that cool, sunny Monday, interviewing runners as ...WGBH’s Greater Boston goes nationwide on World Channel with bombing coverage
Tonight’s special edition of Greater Boston from WGBH, focused on the shocking bomb blasts at Monday’s Boston Marathon, will be distributed nationally on the ...WGBH’s Accessible Media center waives theater captioning fees
The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) at WGBH in Boston is permanently waiving license fees for ...Tough reality for PBS: Roadshow audience doesn’t flow easily into Market Warriors
PBS has ended production of Market Warriors, the Monday-night series that was a lynchpin in its strategy to hold on to viewers of Antiques Roadshow, the ...WGBH’s Jared Bowen receives Commonwealth Award
WGBH News’ Jared Bowen received the Commonwealth Award recognizing “exceptional achievement in the arts, humanities and sciences.” Bowen is an Emmy-winning reporter ...PBS cancels Market Warriors series from Antiques Roadshow producer
This item has been updated and reposted with additional information. PBS is ending production of Market Warriors, the much-anticipated series that premiered in July ...Chris Lydon returns to Boston airwaves as WGBH-FM contributor
Former radio host Christopher Lydon will return to the Boston airwaves as a weekly contributor to Boston Public Radio, a daily local news/talk show ...Downton Abbey season finale nets 8.2 million viewers
The third-season finale of Downton Abbey drew 8.2 million viewers for its Feb. 17 PBS broadcast, the network and WGBH announced Feb. 19. The numbers come ...Rebecca Eaton and Newton Minow honored for distinguished service to public television
As the executive producer who acquired and managed co-productions of British dramas for Masterpiece and its predecessor titles for more than 26 years, ...Second pubTV station pays fine for missteps handling federal grants
When the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts announced a settlement with Boston’s WGBH over its handling of $60 million in federal grant ...WGBH settles with Justice Department over alleged mishandling of federal grants
This item has been updated and reposted with additional information. WGBH has agreed to pay more than $300,000 in a civil settlement ...WBUR entering Cape Cod market with purchase of WMVY
Boston NPR news station 90.9 WBUR-FM is wading into the Cape Cod resort market and going toe-to-toe with WGBH’s network of stations ...Pubcasters battered by Superstorm Sandy
When Superstorm Sandy slammed into the most populated region of the United States Oct. 29, claiming at least 90 lives and wreaking ...Great Expectations exceeds expectations by winning four of PBS’s 11 Creative Arts Primetime Emmys
As a Masterpiece production competing against other miniseries, movies and specials, Great Expectations received Emmys for outstanding achievement in costume design (Annie Symons, Yvonne Duckett), art direction ...Roger Fisher, creator of The Advocates on pubTV, dies at 90
Roger Fisher, a Harvard law professor who developed the Emmy-and Peabody Award–winning public TV program The Advocates, died Aug. 25 in Hanover, N.H. He ...
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