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GBH Educational Foundation

The WGBH Educational Foundation, also known since August 2020 as simply GBH, is a Boston-based public broadcasting group. Established in 1951, it operates all of the PBS member stations in Massachusetts, including its flagship WGBH-TV, sister station WGBX-TV, and a group of NPR member stations in the state. It also owns WGBY-TV in Springfield while New England Public Media operates WGBY-TV 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, the owner of Public Radio International—a syndicate of public radio programming—and for its role in the development of closed captioning and audio description technologies for broadcast television. Read more at Wikipedia...

Inception: 1950

Alternate Names: WGBH Educational Foundation
Website:  http://www.wgbh.org/ 
Associated Place(s): Boston (Mass.), Boston (Mass.)--United States, Massachusetts
Associated Subject(s):  Public broadcasting, Race relations, Drama, African Americans, Dance, African Americans--History, Public radio

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