Word: wgbh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Surprisingly, the idea for the series was conceived in 1977 when General William Westmoreland suggested that Boston-affiliated WGBH depict the Vietnam story from a military perspective. "The Westmoreland meeting got us thinking. In the end, we decided to develop a series encompassing all points of view," one producer recalls. Organizing the ambitious project came with risks as the producers began researching and structuring a vast and complicated subject without knowing how the public would react. Even though most corporations refused to fund the controversial topic, with help from ABC (which also provided all their archive material from news reels...
...hour documentary series, Viet Nam: A Television History, to air starting next week on the Public Broadcasting Service. (One episode will also be shown this Friday by ABC News, which donated $50,000 to the project in 1978.) The ambitious series was produced by PBS's Boston affiliate, WGBH, in conjunction with Britain's Central Independent Television and France's Antenne 2. Assembled by a multinational team that focused on America but gained access to Communist Viet Nam, the 13-part report is fair and generally balanced. It speaks more in sorrow than in anger, without accusations...
Since mastering the instrument, he has appeared as a guest artist with symphony orchestras in Denver, New Orleans, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. A concert he performed at the Kennedy Center in March with the National Symphony will be aired next week on WGBH...
...follow-up on a January 1980 IOP event--also co-sponsored by The Times--entitled "Nominating a President: The Process and the Press." The program brought together 30 journalists and politicians and resulted in a book and a series of five half-hour television discussions on Boston's WGBH...
...delight are wafting through the kitchen once more as cameras record another salivant television series by Julia Child. The wood-notes wild, the vibrato delivery, the blue-eyed conspiratorial beam have changed little since the first segment of The French Chef went out over the Boston area's WGBH-TV on Feb. 11, 1963. Only this time, as the camera closes in on stockpot and saute pan, cleaver and colander, the mistress of cuisine is not demonstrating the joy of Gallic cooking. Dinner at Julia's, her new 13-part public television series, which will start in October...