WGBH Educational Foundation

WGBH Educational Foundation
Named after	Great Blue Hill
Formation	April 5, 1951
Founded at	Boston, Massachusetts
Tax ID no.	04-2104397
Fields	Public broadcasting
Official language	English
Leader	Susan Goldberg
Subsidiaries	PBS Distribution
Affiliations	PBS; NPR; Public Radio Exchange; American Public Media; American Public Television; National Educational Telecommunications Association
Revenue (2016)	$187 million
Expenses (2016)	$176 million
Website	www.wgbh.org

The WGBH Educational Foundation (also known as GBH since August 2020) is an American public broadcasting group based in Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1951, it holds the licenses to all of the PBS member stations in Massachusetts, and operates its flagship station WGBH-TV, sister station WGBX-TV, and a group of NPR member stations in the state. It also owns WGBY-TV in Springfield, which is operated by New England Public Media under a program service agreement.

Nationally, WGBH is known as the distributor of a number of major PBS programs, including American Experience, Arthur, Frontline, Masterpiece, and Nova, among others; as the owner of Public Radio International until 2018,^[3]^[4] a syndicate of public radio programming; and for its role in the development of closed captioning and audio description technologies for broadcast television.

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