A soaked resident filed a 311 complaint about the water feature that GBH is now running nightly along the sidewalk outside its studios at Guest and Market streets in Brighton: Read more.
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By adamg - 6/22/24 - 10:50 am
Martin Evans compares Boeing's quality-control issues with GBH's recent and "shameful" layoffs and show terminations, says both have lost sight of their "core competencies:" Read more.
By adamg - 5/22/24 - 3:06 pm
GBH has posted details of its cuts today: 31 people were laid off and Greater Boston, Talking Politics and Basic Black shows are being taken off the air. Read more.
By adamg - 5/22/24 - 11:19 am
Jim Braude opened his Boston Public Radio show this morning with the news.
By adamg - 12/19/23 - 11:10 am
Dan Kennedy reports the station will use a $750,000 grant from the Barr Foundation to cover "racial and socioeconomic equity issues in Greater Boston and beyond." The foundation recently gave the Globe a similar grant for similar coverage.
By adamg - 10/7/23 - 9:06 pm
GBH reports on the life and death of Brian O’Donovan, the longtime host of GBH’s radio show A Celtic Sojourn and the annual Christmas Celtic Sojourn.
By adamg - 4/13/23 - 10:18 am
Dan Kennedy posts comments from Boston's other NPR news station that it won't be quitting Twitter just because the platform's owner hates NPR.
By adamg - 11/15/22 - 2:13 pm
Dan Kennedy provides an appreciation of the Dorchester-born Peter Kadzis, who is retiring from full-time work as politics editor at GBH in January, after a career that included a long run at the Boston Phoenix, where he mentored numerous reporters.
By adamg - 9/17/22 - 3:34 pm
GBH reports the death this morning of Eric Jackson, host of "Eric in the Evenings," who had broadcast jazz in Boston for more than 50 years.
By adamg - 8/13/21 - 12:19 pm
Longtime Beat the Press panelist Dan Kennedy reports WGBH has canceled Emily Rooney's last show, after 22 years.
By adamg - 4/16/21 - 9:47 pm
WGBH's "Beat the Press" started tonight with an apology by Emily Rooney for the way she dismissed complaints by media professionals about the lack of minority representation at PBS in general and the way that all the time given over to documentaries by Ken Burns makes it near impossible for other documentary makers to get their work aired. Read more.
By adamg - 2/23/21 - 8:59 am
Longtime WGBH subscriber Larry Davidson of Dorchester reports that he got two copies of WGBH's monthly magazine, one with a mailing label that adds this cryptic line between his name and address:
WAITER-SUNSET-LAPTOP-VIDEO
Cognitive-acuity test or coded message intended for 'GBH's black-helicopter pilots?
By adamg - 9/9/20 - 4:32 pm
GBH and WBUR, which still likes its W, will team up to provide local news for an NPR podcast about, well, local news. Read more.
By adamg - 3/26/20 - 11:37 am
Back when kids wrote with a typewriter, pencil or pen to Z Double-O M, Box 350, Boston, Mass, 0 2 1 3 4. Read more.
By adamg - 10/22/19 - 11:41 am
On the Boston Radio Interest mailing list, Larry Sochrin forwards a copy of a mailing from WGBH: Read more.
By adamg - 3/19/19 - 4:13 pm
Barely a week after WBUR announced the departure of its general manager, Boston's other NPR news station is announcing its general manager will be leaving too - but with a bit more lead time. Read more.
By harvardruleswatch - 6/22/18 - 12:35 am
Once upon a time you could enter the first floor of Boston’s Copley Square public library and escape having to listen to the self-promotional chatter of corporate-sponsored or underwritten radio show hosts and their Establishment or celebrity guests, while you read a book or sat in front of your laptop. Yet nowadays, the two former longtime WTKK-FM commercial radio talk show hosts that the WGBH Educational foundation hired in 2013 to co-host its “Boston Public Radio” daily morning show, Margery Eagan and Jim Braude, are also broadcasting their 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
By adamg - 2/16/18 - 12:35 pm
WGBH's Emily Rooney interviewed fired WBUR/NPR host Tom Ashbrook, will air it on her media show on Channel 2 tonight, but tells Eagan and Braude that Ashbrook wants to get back into broadcasting, maybe starting with a podcast, so she doesn't think he'll sue 'BUR for firing him.
Braude, meanwhile, acknowledged that, yes, Boston has an NPR station besides WGBH, but says that other station needs to learn what a joke is. Read more.
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