Word: wgbh
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WITHIN the last few years the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) has created an audience of dedicated viewers in the United States. One of the major contributors to the growing popularity of public TV is WGBH (Channel 2) in Boston. Situated on Harvard-owned land just south of the Business School, WGBH produces "The Advocates," "ZOOM," "Evening at the Pops," "The French Chef," and distributes nationally the BBC production, "Masterpiece Theater." The station itself is a massive operation turning out not only national PBS shows but also local ones such as "The Reporters," "Catch 44" and "Louis Lyons News and Comment...
...WGBH is acutely affected by recent CPB decisions. On February 8 CPB announced its funding decisions for the coming season. Out of the nine program proposals submitted by WGBH, CPB agreed to partially fund "Science" and to supply half the necessary funds for "The Advocates." "ZOOM," a nationally popular children's show, was totally ignored along with the other unfinanced WGBH proposals. As Michael Rice, WGBH program director, noted at the time, CBP "cut right into the heart and guts of our current national program production, mainly "ZOOM" and "The Advocates"...both shows are funded so minimally that they...
MONDAY: Bedtime Story. WGBH initiates an attractive alternative to the evening news before beddy-bye. Tim Mayer narrates a fractured fairy tale each night at 11. Tonight's story: "The Revenge of the Fried Banana People." CH. 2. 11 p.m. Color...
...tape of Bowen's lecture will be broadcast on WGBH-FM from 9 to 10:30 p.m. tonight...
Ellen Frankfort, whose book combines health issues with feminist politics, came to WGBH yesterday to tape a radio program for "The Woman's Show." Frankfort writes a health column for The Village Voice and is a former medical student...