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The Lowell Institute forms a cooperative venture with six Boston colleges (spearheaded by Ralph Lowell) to broadcast educational programs on commercial stations. Original offices are housed at 28 Newbury Street.
April
WGBH Educational Foundation is incorporated. Parker Wheatley is first station manager.
October 6
WGBH-FM is on the air with a live concert by the Boston Symphony orchestraunder conductor Charles Munch.
May 2
WGBH-TV begins regularly scheduled broadcasting on Channel 2, 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Friday. Studio and offices are located at 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, with remote cables and lighting at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium (next door) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. First program: Come and See, “a progra.m. for young children” with Tony Saletan and Mary Lou Adams, from Tufts Nursery Training School. At 6:30 p.m., Louis Lyons, who has been a fixture on WGBH-FM, reads the news...
October
First BSO simulcast (FM/TV) originates from Kresge Auditorium, MIT, beginning a tradition of musical broadcasts unique in the U.S.
February
Sunday programming begins, 2:30 to 6:30 p.m.; in May, Sunday hours are extended by moving sign-on to 11:00 am.
May
Hartford Gunnbecomes WGBH station manager.
June
First “Boston Pops” telecast (from Kresge). In the Sylvania Television Awards for 1957, WGBH’s Discoveryis honored as the outstanding children’s educational series created by a local station. And Louis Lyons wins a Peabody Award for local TV and radio news.
March
In-school instructional television service commences with eight weekly 6th grade science programs shown “in some 48 separate school systems in and around the Boston area.” In the fall, The 21″ Classroom is formally set in operation.
Summer
WGBH acquires its first videotape machine (one of the very first to be sold by Ampex).
September
Elliot Norton Reviews begins lengthy run.
June
WGBH helps set up WENH-TV, Channel 11, in Durham, NH, and the interconnection between the two stations represents the first “network” of educational stations; the Boston-Durham link will become the basis for the Eastern Educational Network.
October
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Prospects of Mankind, a WGBH monthly series carried on educational and commercial stations around the country, begins with V. K. Krishna Menon of India as first guest. A Peabody Award goes to WGBH’s Decisionsseries.
October 14
A fire in the early morning at 84 Massachusetts Avenue completely destroys WGBH facilities. Channel 2 is off the air for all of Sunday, October 15, but, by dint of herculean efforts by staff, and superb cooperation from the community, manages to sign on at the regular time on Monday the 16th. Emergency control room is set up in Catholic Television Center (WIHS), which also lends use of its limited studio space. For the next seven months WGBH-TV functions as the “diffuse organization” — contro...
February
A film on the poet Robert Frostis begun by WGBH, encouraged by Secretary of the Interior Stuart Udall.
May
In a major consolidation, programming, production and engineering move to the Museum of Science, occupying the “red frame building” that had been used for construction offices when the Museum was built; space for a studio is found in the Museum itself. FM and some offices remain in Kendall Square.
August
Three programs on French cooking are produced in a special kitchen constructed in the Boston Gas Company’s auditorium; as a result of their instant success, a full series is decided upon, to begin in 1963. Within a year after that, Julia Child is being seen regularly in New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and many other cities, as educational TV’s first nation-wide “hit.” She is also the first in the distinctive WGBH series of “how-to” personalities that will in time include Th...
August
National Doubles televised from Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline for first time; obscure Boston newspaperman becomes TV star. [Ed.: This reference begs for clarification. Bud Collins? Please help us.]
October
Symphony Hallis cabled and lit properly. Henceforth, all BSO and Pops telecasts originate there.
March
Louis Lyons receives Dupont Award “in recognition of the nation’s outstanding news commentator of 1963.”
April
Louis Lyons retires as Curator of Nieman Fellowships, joins WGBH staff after a dozen years of news on FM and TV. The Robert Frost film, A Lover’s Quarrel with the World, wins an Oscar for WGBH.
August 29
WGBH-TV signs on from new studios at 125 Western Avenue, Allston. Building is only partly finished, but functional. FM to move in by April, 1965.
A four-part spy satire about two long-forgotten KGB agents in England who have no intention of coming in from the cold. In fact, their 25 years as 'sleeper' agents -- during which time they had no contact with the Kremlin --have been quite comfortable.
WGBH (an abbreviation of Western Great Blue Hill) is a PBS affiliate located in Boston, Massachusetts and owned by the WGBH Educational Foundation. The station launched on May 2, 1955, and introduced an animated on-screen logo in 1971.
The Cazalets. Episode 3 / screenplay by Douglas Livingstone ; co-producer, Joanna Lumley ; producer, Verity Lambert ; directed by Suri Krishnamma ; BBC & WGBH Boston co-production in association with Cinema Verity.
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Thereafter, the company was active mainly in television, producing two sitcoms for BBC1, May to December (1989–94) and So Haunt Me (1992–94). It also co-produced the short-lived BBC soap opera Eldorado (1992–93). Other work included the literary adaptation The Cazalets for BBC One in 2001.
