Word: wgbh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Already, there have been cutbacks and layoffs at some stations. Boston's WGBH, which produces some of PBS's best programs, such as Nova and World, last year laid off 108 people, almost a quarter of its staff. At KQED in San Francisco, news was dropped altogether when 35 people, 16% of the staff, were...
Television's interest grew too. In the early 1970s, PBS began importing BBC science specials, like Nigel Calder's programs on astronomy, physics, the new biology. In 1974, one of the PBS stations, WGBH in Boston, took the plunge with its own Nova series. Now, counting Nova, Sagan's Cosmos, and Miller's Body, PBS is running seven separate science series...
...tentative agreement between the theatre and WGBH-TV provides that the television station will use its personnel and equipment to tape the play during a regular November performance in exchange for the rights to air the production up to four times in the Boston area...
...Saint-Saens' celebrated A-minor concerto at the season's final event offered by Concerts in Black and White, where Black conductor Wendell English leads the multiracial orchestra. The concert was the best by the orchestra this year. And Moye's performance was impeccably elegant--an impression confirmed when WGBH broadcast a tape of the program the next month. Regrettably, none of the Boston newspapers reviewed the event, but a musical genius like Moye ought to be brought back soon--by someone...
...starts to stretch and the would-be woodworker either goes back home or ends up with a board that is too long. Thus the black thumb rule at most home-repair centers: $5 worth of advice with every $1 in sales. Last winter Boston's public television station WGBH broadcast a 13-week series on home renovation titled This Old House. The program drew some of the highest ratings in the station's history, and a new version will be put on nationwide this fall...