New Hampshire Public Television is contracting some business services out to Boston’s WGBH, but says its independence and local focus will remain. | Read more.
From the Boston Globe – 7/6/2012 Eric Jackson hosted his last weeknight show on WGBH-FM (89.7) Thursday night, and thanks to local saxophonist Ken Field, he went out with a funeral. Field, who hosts a show on WMBR-FM (88.1), led a New Orleans-style funeral outside the WGBH building in Brighton to protest the station’s recent cuts in … | Read more.
From Current.org: PBS’s ongoing negotiations to curb per-hour costs of producing programs and to assert more control over content are increasing friction with its largest producer, Boston’s powerhouse WGBH, according to sources at other stations with knowledge of the situation. | Read more.
From the Boston Globe: I loved the first season of “Downton,” [but] season two has a phoned-in quality, miracles occur where skillful writing might have intervened, subplots wax and wane randomly. But I am an originalist snob. | Read more.
Help us catalog WGBH “firsts” in national public media
We’re looking for your recommendations, corrections, and confirmations of WGBH’s national innovations over the decades. | Read more.