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WGBH-TV
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WGBH-TV (channel 2), branded GBH 2, is a PBS member television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship property of the WGBH Educational Foundation, which also owns Boston's secondary PBS member WGBX-TV (channel 44) and Springfield, Massachusetts PBS member WGBY-TV (channel 57, operated by New England Public Media), Class A Biz TV affiliate WFXZ-CD (channel 24) and public radio stations WGBH (89.7 FM) and WCRB (99.5 FM) in the Boston area, and WCAI radio (and satellites WZAI and WNAN) on Cape Cod.
Official website
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GBH home page featuring GBH's local news, events and highlights from the GBH Educational Foundation.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- nonprofit organization
- Named after
- Great Blue Hill
- Award
- Peabody Awards
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Massachusetts
- Headquarters
- Boston
- Revenue
- 225004242
- Legal form
- 501(c)(3) organization
- Official website
- www.wgbh.org
- Image
- WGBH, 1 Guest Street, Boston 2011-04-17 (15).jpg
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- Commons category
- WGBH Guest Street studios
- inception
- 1955-05-02
- affiliation
- PBS
- member of
- PBS
- social media followers
- 147000
- donations
- 111052276
- total assets
- 928251464
- language used
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
29 sectionsContents
- History
- Organization and first broadcasts (1951–1955)
- First studios near MIT (1956–1961)
- Fire and recovery (1961–1969)
- PBS membership and expansion (1970–2006)
- New studios in Brighton and Back Bay (2007–present)
- Logo and soundmark
- Programming
- Original productions
- Notable general-audience programs produced by WGBH
- Notable children's programs produced by WGBH
- Notable alumni of WGBH productions
- Technical information
- Subchannels
- WGBH-DT2
- WGBH-DT3
- Spectrum auction repacking
- Former translator
- Related services
- Television stations
- WGBX-TV
- WGBY-TV
- Media Access Group
- Online resources
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Video links
- External links
WGBH-TV (channel 2), branded GBH 2, is a PBS member television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship property of the WGBH Educational Foundation, which also owns Boston's secondary PBS member WGBX-TV (channel 44) and Springfield, Massachusetts PBS member WGBY-TV (channel 57, operated by New England Public Media), Class A Biz TV affiliate WFXZ-CD (channel 24) and public radio stations WGBH (89.7 FM) and WCRB (99.5 FM) in the Boston area, and WCAI radio (and satellites WZAI and WNAN) on Cape Cod.
WGBH-TV, WGBX-TV, and the WGBH and WCRB radio stations share studios on Guest Street in northwest Boston's Brighton neighborhood; WGBH-TV's transmitter is located on Cabot Street (east of I-95/MA 128) in Needham, Massachusetts, on the former candelabra tower, which is shared with Fox affiliate WFXT and serves as a full power backup facility for sister station WGBX-TV as well as CBS owned-and-operated station (O&O) WBZ-TV, ABC affiliate WCVB-TV, NBC O&O WBTS-CD (which itself shares spectrum with WGBX), and independent station WSBK-TV.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WGBH-TV” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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