Thanks to generous donor support and strong fiscal management, WGBH balanced its budget for the 20th consecutive year. We sustained our position as one of the nation's premier public broadcasters, as a leading producer of high-quality content for television, radio, the Internet, and other educational media, and as a provider of access technologies for people with vision or hearing loss.
Funding and Activities SummaryWGBH operates three public television stations, three public radio stations, and a comprehensive Web site. Our local broadcast operations are supported primarily by viewers and listeners, business sponsors, and a federal Community Service Grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Programs produced for local broadcast are similarly funded, with additional support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. WGBH produces more than one-third of the content for PBS prime-time television and PBS Online, and is a major source of public radio programs. We also produce content for a variety of other media platforms. These efforts are funded primarily by restricted grants from corporations, foundations, government agencies, and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) stations. Both PBS and CPB are leading funders of several new efforts, including ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre's American Collection. Other significant new production activities this year included our PBS Millennium 2000 25-hour broadcast, the launch of Between the Lions, and our upcoming Evolution series. Access technologies are supported by grants from CPB and the US Department of Education, and by the sale of services. December 31, 2000 marked the conclusion of WGBH's Expanding the Vision Campaign, which raised more than $42 million in new funds (final figures will appear in next year's report). The Campaign has strengthened WGBH's endowment and augmented critical individual contributions that support the early research and development of new programs and the implementation of key digital innovations. |
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| Fiscal Outlook We enter fy01 on strong financial footing. We're prepared for the future and committed to providing viewers, listeners, and Web users across the nation with educationally rich, high-quality productions for years to come. |
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| * These do not include grants for future programming of $119,920,000 in fy00 and $147,650,000 in fy99. |
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