WGBH

WGBH is an established public television station for Boston, Massachusetts, which is a member of public radio networks (PBS, and NPR and PRI). WGBH produces many shows for these networks, including nearly a third of PBS's national prime-time TV. These programs include Nova, Frontline, American Experience, The Victory Garden, and This Old House. It is one of six local Boston TV stations seen in Canada on the Bell ExpressVu satellite provider. The license-holder is the WGBH Educational Foundation.

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Public television - Boston, Massachusetts - Public radio - PBS - NPR - PRI - Nova - Frontline - American Experience - The Victory Garden - This Old House - Canada - Bell ExpressVu

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Recognized for its contributions to non-commercial educational television programming, WGBH is also a leader in services for people who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind, or visually impaired. WGBH invented television closed captioning and the Descriptive Video Service (DVS), and they provide those access services to commercial TV programs as well as public TV, and to home video, Web sites, and movie theaters nationwide.

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For more than thirty years, WGBH's on-air TV signature has been the synth-and-animation logo that now appears at the close of each PBS program it produces. The original seven-second piece began appearing at the beginning of WGBH's national shows in the 1970s, accompanied by different visuals—including the "outline" design that is the WGBH emblem. The audio "sounder" now appears as a three- or four-second stinger.

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