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50 Years of Bringing You the Best
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1980s |
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1980
Death of a Princess, a WGBH docudrama about the execution of a Saudi princess and her lover, sets off an international furor.
"So entertaining, it's criminal": Mystery! begins. |
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1981
WGBH Radio has a new traveling studio: the audio bus that will log thousands of miles capturing live classical, jazz, and folk performances.
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1983
Frontline introduces a brand of hard-hitting, award-winning weekly journalism commercial TV can only envy.
Vietnam: A Television History premieres, a painful odyssey that sets new viewing records for PBS public affairs programs.
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1984
WGBH introduces Gavel to Gavel, coverage of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (and, come 1994, the Senate, too).
Concealed Enemies dramatizes the Alger Hiss spy case.
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1985
WGBH Radio orchestrates the first-ever transatlantic digital broadcast: Bach's St. Matthew Passion, live from East Germany's Leipzig Gewandhaus; two years later, 'GBH pioneers the transpacific digital broadcast (Seiji Ozawa and the New Japan Philharmonic, live from Tokyo).
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1987
First TV "semester" of WGBH's popular teen show, Degrassi Junior High |
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1988
American Experience bows in, giving American television its only weekly history series. |
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1989
Norm Abram, "the most famous carpenter since Joseph," invites viewers into The New Yankee Workshop.
Interactive Nova: Animal Pathfinders is WGBH's award-winning entry into the world of interactive multimedia teaching tools.
Fairy tales, fables, and timeless children's classics come to PBS on WGBH's Long Ago & Far Away.
To the Limit, the first of WGBH's giant-screen Nova films, tours IMAX theaters around the world.
Marketplace fans across the county get a New England perspective on the day's business news, thanks to WGBH Radio's Boston bureau, anchored by Madge Kaplan; WGBH gives the series a health desk in 1995.
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