System/Policy
New England Public Radio and WGBY to combine operations
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The two stations will operate as New England Public Media, a new nonprofit organization.
Programs/Content
WGBY community texting program champions early childhood literacy
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Text 413 Families brings innovative educational experiences to parents’ fingertips.
Programs/Content
Bilingual magazine show premieres this week on Massachusetts’ WGBY
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“We’ll be using captioning and other tools to make it as accessible as possible to all viewers.”
Quick Takes
WGBY interviews real-life Downton Abbey Countess
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Three nights after 7.9 million people tuned into the third-season premiere of PBS’s Downton Abbey, WGBY in Springfield, Mass., will broadcast an interview tonight with Lady Carnarvon of Highclere Castle, the filming location of the BBC-produced series. The interview is being shown as an episode of the program Connecting Point and is not available for national carriage, so only those New Englanders lucky enough to receive the WGBY signal will be able to watch this evening. “I got in touch with Lady Carnarvon’s personal assistant last fall for a different reason,” WGBY spokesperson Myrna Flynn told Current regarding how the station landed the exclusive. “Circumstances naturally led to this. The Countess was very gracious and accommodating.” In 2011, the Countess authored a book, Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle.