In the 1980s, new studios at 505 Eighth Avenue were built by Miles Smith who, along with WBAI alumna Jane Pipik, is now working at WGBH in Boston.

In 1985, TV station WGBH, the Boston, Massachusetts, member of the Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ), began investigating uses for the new technology of stereophonic television broadcasting, particularly multichannel television sound ( MTS ), which allowed for a third audio channel, called the Secondary Audio Program ( SAP ).

With a history of developing closed captioning of programs for hearing-impaired viewers, WGBH considered the viability of using the new audio channel for narrated descriptions of key visual elements, much like those being done for live theatre in Washington, D. C., by Margaret Pfanstiehl, who had been experimenting with television description as part of her Washington Ear radio reading service.

In March 2007, PRI announced its intention to co-produce a new morning program, involving WNYC New York, WGBH Boston, the BBC World Service, and New York Times Radio.

When a fire destroyed the studios in the early morning hours of October 14, 1961, WGBH-TV Channel 2 and WGBH 89. 7 FM broadcast from the studios of other broadcasting stations until they were able to build new studios located at 125 Western Avenue in Allston, and begin operations there on August 29, 1963.

WGBH moved to a new studio complex on Guest Street in Boston in June 2007.

On May 30, 2005, Lydon returned to the air on University of Massachusetts Lowell's radio station WUML and Boston's WGBH with a new show called Open Source, syndicated through Public Radio International.

Johnson then left WBCN to assume a new position at WGBH.

The station's need for more studio space dovetailed with Harvard Business School's desire to expand its adjacent campus ; Harvard already owned the land on which the WGBH studios were located.

The studio where The World is produced ( part of the WGBH building in Boston )

Burton accepted an invitation to host Rebop, a multicultural series designed for young people ages 9 – 15, produced by WGBH for PBS.

Programming is also simulcast on the second HD Radio channel of WGBH ( 89. 7 FM ), allowing WCRB to reach some portions of the Boston area that cannot receive 99. 5, as well as WNCK ( 89. 5 FM ) on Nantucket, WJMF ( 88. 7 FM ) in Smithfield, Rhode Island ( serving nearby Providence ), W242AA ( 96. 3 FM ) in Kendall Square, Cambridge ( designed to serve Beacon Hill, Boston ), and W295BL Manchester, New Hampshire.

The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

Sciacca is a former political reporter and columnist who is a regular panelist on " Beat the Press " on the WGBH TV show Greater Boston, which is hosted by Emily Rooney.

It was created by Jack Foley while he was a senior graphic designer at WGBH.

* Summer's Lease ( 1989 ) as William Fosdyke ( BBC / WGBH Boston / Australian Broadcasting Corporation / TV New Zealand ) ( 4 part adaptation of novel by Sir John Mortimer )

Category: Television series by WGBH

The fifth adaptation is a TV series co-produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston, Little Dorrit, written by Andrew Davies, and featuring Claire Foy, Freema Agyeman, Bill Paterson, Andy Serkis, Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Courtenay, Judy Parfitt, Arthur Darvill, Russell Tovey, Janine Duvitski, James Fleet, Ruth Jones, Eve Myles, Mackenzie Crook, Stephane Cornicard, Anton Lesser, Alun Armstrong, Sue Johnston, Emma Pierson and Amanda Redman.

Masterpiece ( formerly known as Masterpiece Theatre ) is a drama anthology television series produced by WGBH Boston.

The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate were adapted by the BBC and WGBH Boston in 2001 as the two-part drama Love in a Cold Climate.

* The Deadly Deception, by Denisce DiAnni, PBS / WGBH NOVA documentary video, 1993.

In 1996 it was remade a third time, also in the United Kingdom, for television by the BBC and Carlton Television in partnership with U. S. station WGBH of Boston, Massachusetts, airing again on Masterpiece Theatre.

The show is produced by the WGBH Educational Foundation, the parent company of WGBH-TV in Boston.

Category: Television series by WGBH

Category: Television series by WGBH

Impressed by Abram's small scrap pile and efficient work habits, Morash invited Abram to help with the renovation of a rundown Victorian house in Boston's historic Dorchester section, with a WGBH camera crew recording the process for the first This Old House project with host Bob Vila.

MBNA was one of the companies mentioned on a 2004 Frontline WGBH Boston PBS special about unfair business practices by credit card companies.

In 2012, the organization was purchased by WGBH.

Nova is a United States popular science television series produced by WGBH Boston.

* Rebop ( TV series ), an American television show produced by WGBH Boston from 1976 to 1979

WGBH Educational Foundation received its first broadcasting license ( for radio ) in 1951 under the auspices of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, a consortium of local universities and cultural institutions, whose collaboration stems from an 1836 bequest by textile manufacturer John Lowell, Jr. calling for free public lectures for the citizens of Boston.

Many programs seen on National Educational Television and later, the Public Broadcasting Service, originated at the facilities of WGBH or were otherwise produced by the station.

This is the main television service of WGBH, as it is the television station first licensed by the Foundation.

* James Farmer on the WGBH series The Ten O ' Clock News

* Hear James Sommerville in concert from WGBH Radio Boston

* Sound & Spirit: host, Ellen Kushner ; from WGBH Boston and PRI

* WGBH, FRONTLINE & Najibullah Quraishi for " Behind Taliban Lines "

* WGBH, Boston, FRONTLINE / World, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Dan Edge for " PAKISTAN: Children of the Taliban ," on PBS

* Interview with Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, 1981 ( Video Interview ) WGBH Media Library & Archives

From 1996 until 2010, she was the host of the radio program Sound & Spirit, produced by WGBH in Boston and distributed by Public Radio International.

On Wednesday, September 26, 2007, journalist Gerry Hadden's story on George Whitman, his daughter Sylvia Beach Whitman, and Shakespeare & Company aired on NPR's The World ( a co-production of the BBC, Public Radio International ( PRI ), and the Boston radio station WGBH ).

Almond is a regular correspondent on NPR's Here & Now and on WGBH, both based in Boston.