WGBH Educational Foundation

WGBH Educational Foundation is a public television station classified as a non-profit organization, located in Boston Massachusetts. This organization uses the entertainment media as a primary means by which it reaches out to millions of people across the world.

The WGBH Educational Foundation reaches out to its audiences through several forms of communication media like television, radio, internet websites, online interactive magazines, audio-video and even mobile applications. Whatever be the form of communication, WGBH Educational Foundation will use it to reach its audience.

WGBH-TV is one of the main members with the Public Broadcasting Services (PBS), a national non-profit broadcasting television station. WGBH programs accounts to almost two thirds of the programs in PBS and therefore is the single largest producer of TV content for the PBS (web content too). Its sister concern are WGBX-TV ( Boston) and WGBY-TV (Springfield) both owned by the WGBH Educational Foundation. Most of the programs that are aired by WGBH focus on education for children.

WGBH (FM) is the primary radio service of the WGBH Educational Foundation. It serves as a primary source of radio for the people of Boston. It is a member of the National Public Radio and the Public Radio International Firms with the help of which its presence spread all over the world. It has been nicknamed as "Boston's NPR Station for News and Culture". Its sister concern stations are WCAI (with satellites WNAN and WZAI) located in Cape Cod and WCRB located in Boston.

Almost any educational topic is covered by the WGBH Educational Foundation. What makes WGBH Educational Foundation fascinating is that it keeps up with the fast developing technology of communication and provides its viewers with firsthand information on any topic of viewer's choice through various forms of media such as radio television, online or even the ordinary post.

WGBH Educational Foundation has received many accolades. It has been honored several awards from both Radio and Television like the Emmy's, BAFTA Craft, Peabody and even the Academy Awards.

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