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More Than 50 Years of Bringing You the Best
WGBH (named for the Great Blue Hill location of our transmitter) first hit the airwaves in October 1951 with a live radio concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Four years later Channel 2 signed on. Today, WGBH offers multiple television and radio channels, vibrant Web content, and a wide range of teaching tools used in classrooms from coast to coast. WGBH produces more of the PBS prime-time lineup and Web content than any other source and is a key supplier to the nation's public radio stations. We also pioneered captioning and descriptive video for the 36 million Americans with hearing or vision loss. And it all began with a little lecture series....
1836
John Lowell Jr. leaves a bequest creating free "public lectures for the benefit of the citizens of Boston."
1946
The Lowell Institute forms a cooperative venture with six Boston colleges to broadcast its lecture series -- at first, on commercial stations.
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