Word: wgbh
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Saturday's announcement that work has started on the transmitting tower of WGBH-TV marks the beginning of educational TV for Boston. To be run by the Lowell Institute, the new station will be financed entirely by foundation grants and funds from the ten institutions that comprise the Institute's Co-operative Broadcasting Council. Among these ten at least two, Harvard and Boston University, can supply students to help run the station...
...production: WHRB, the Dramatic Club, and Ivy films. But there are many other students in the College and at Radcliffe who, though not interested in any of these groups, would deserve a chance to get a start in television. And there must be a place for them in WGBH...
Their actions represented the crystallization of plans long in the offing for the construction of a television station that will be used only for educational purposes. The Lowell Institute operates FM station WGBH in co-operation with ten educational institutions, and these same institutions will run the TV station...
Chances for non-commercial educational television looked better than ever yesterday when the special legislative commission studying the matter announced that the WGBH Educational Foundation would file an application for Channel 2 before June 2. This is the the deadline set last year by the Federal Communications Commission...
According to the commission report, the WGBH foundation, which operates the FM radio station with the sponsorship of the Lowell Institute Co-operative Broadcasting Council, will receive the necessary $500,000. It has been promised approximately this amount by the Fund for Adult Education and several similar foundations established by Edward A. and Lincoln Filene...