WGBH's now famous current logo, consisting of the company name with a double drop shadow on either sides of it, was designed by Chermayeff & Geismar. KAET | KRCB | KLCS | KIXE | KVIE | KVCR | KPBS | KQED | KQEH | KBDI | WHYY | WETA | WHUT | WGCU (TV) | WUFT | WJCT | WUCF | WSRE | WLRN | WFSU | WEDU (WEDQ) | WPBA | WSIU | WEIU | WTTW | WQPT | WTVP | WILL | WTIU | WNIN | WFWA | WYIN | WFYI | WIPB | WNIT | WVUT | KTWU | KPTS | WKYU | WYES | WGBH (WGBX/WGBY) | WDCQ | WTVS | WKAR | WNMU | WGVU | KSMQ | WDSE/WRPT | KCPT | KETC | KMOS | Vegas PBS | PBS Reno | WNET | KRWG | KENW | WSKG | WNED | WLIW | Mountain Lake PBS | WXXI | WMHT | WCNY | WPBS | WTVI | WOUB | WBGU | WCET | WVIZ | WOSU | WGTE | WLVT | WPSU | WQLN | WITF | WQED | WVIA | Rhode Island PBS | WTCI | WCTE | WLJT | WKNO | NPT | KACV | KLRU | KAMU | KEDT | KERA | KCOS | KMBH-DT2 | KCWT-DT4 | KUHT | KTTZ | KPBT | KLRN | KUED | WHRO | KWSU | KCTS | KSPS | KBTC | KVZK | KGTF | WMTJ | WTJX, Former This wiki were now discontinued. The first version made its debut on the NOVA episode "Hitler's Secret Weapon", and can be seen in its various versions on many PBS shows, such as NOVA, Frontline, American Experience, Masterpiece Theatre, The Victory Garden, Design Squad, Martha Speaks, Zoom, Postcards from Buster spin-off, Between the Lions and Arthur, among others. a delightful, new mini-series from WGBH and PBS Kids. Music/Sounds: A female announcer says "This is Channel 2, WGBH-TV Boston.". If there is a some immature logo kids out of here begging to "CAN I HAVE PRIVATE LINK MODEL PLEASE?! Sometimes the 1993 or 2001 logos have an announcer saying "(Show's name) is a production of WGBH Boston." Variants: There are many variants in terms of the music and the announcer: SFX/FX: The lines of electricity, and the flash. operated by the American Tower Corporation), The following year on September 25, 1967, WGBH-TV gained a sister television station in the Boston area, WGBX-TV (channel 44), which has transmitted its signal from the Needham site since the station signed on (WGBX's digital signal on UHF channel 43 shares the master antenna at the very top of the tower with several commercial stations in the market, while WGBH-TV's channel 19 digital transmitter uses a separate antenna at a lower point). No music or sounds are played right here. network prior to its launch (opting only to launch the brand as an afternoon-only sub-block within PBS's existing children's program lineup). 1993-2009: The short version of the music, with the logo already formed and no announcer. Scare Factor: High to nightmare.

Some episodes also feature the logo with a, And, also, from an old WGBH program in 1974 of which name is unknown, it has black and white colors in the entire logo and the audio is high pitched, -- and this variant makes the ENTIRE LOGO MEK IT LOOKING CREEPY AN' YUH NUH GON' LIKE IT AND IT MAKES YOU HAVE NIGHTMARES WHEN YOU SLEEP AND IT IS A NIGHTMARE THAT YOU WANT TO QUIT SLEEP UNTIL 2060!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Scare Factor: Medium to High. This even plasters over previous WGBH logos on newer prints of Peep and the Big Wide World. [citation needed]. Music/Sounds: The tail end of the WGBH music accompanied by a playful techno rendition of the music with a beat in the background. 1974–present. Annenberg Foundation | Corporation for Public Broadcasting | PBS Distribution | PBS Educational/Informational | PBSOnline | PBS Digital Studios | PBS Digital Presentation | Annenberg Learner, Affiliates


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Cafe Kid Devon Convertible Crib Instructions. As the infamous tune is still here, which is also combined with the sounds in the beginning, strange animation, logo shorting out, darkness, and even the voice over will scare more than a few. Scare Factor: None, but it rises yet again with the next one. The station's callsign refers to Great Blue Hill (the highest point in the Boston area at an elevation of 635 feet (194 m)), a location in Milton that served as the original location of WGBH-TV's transmitter facility and where the transmitter for WGBH radio continues to operate to this day (the callsign is occasionally jokingly referred as "God Bless Harvard", although the station's connections with the university are at best indirect; Harvard was one of several Boston-area universities which took part in the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council and rented space to WGBH on Western Avenue in Allston for the station's studio operations). Availability: Current. [12] The station's need for more studio space dovetailed with Harvard Business School's desire to expand its adjacent campus; Harvard already owned the land on which the WGBH studios were located, which the university had donated to WGBH for use to construct the Western Avenue facility in 1962 at a value of $250,000.
with Ruff Ruffman, Arthur, and Plum Landing. A folded in paper cube rolls in from the right center of the screen and stops in the center. Watch Pablo as he builds a rain stick right in his own kitchen with a special guest appearance from his daughter Lily. FX/SFX: The WGBH logo forming, with "kids" appearing along with the characters and the character animations. This can be seen on pre-2009 episodes of Arthur. WGBH's award-winning content for parents and children.

fighting kids feet. WGBH brings young, exciting, and smart back to the world of TV game shows with High School Quiz Show, an award-winning single-elimination academic team competition for high school students in Massachusetts. Logo: We see a small globe rotate and we see the word WQED (in yellow-orange) with "PITTSBURGH". Until 2017, more recent prints of Arthur plastered the 1993 version with the 2008 variant. Music and Sounds: The announcer saying the name of the show that's next on WGBH 2, Nicknames: "The 2 II", "Shiny 2", "Silver 2". WGBH-TV also effectively serves as one of two flagship stations of PBS, along with WNET in New York City. [4] Under Gunn, who resigned in February 1970 to become president of PBS, WGBH made significant investments in technology and programming to improve the station's profile and set out to make it a producer of public television programming. Surrounding the borders of the logo are colored pencil scribbles consisting of the colors grey, green, blue, yellow, and orange. A folded in paper cube rolls in from the right center of the screen and stops in the center. The unit originated with the founding of The Caption Center in 1972, which invented the method of closed captioning to improve access to television programs for the hearing impaired (The French Chef was the first program to offer captioning provided by the unit), and created the Rear Window Captioning System for films. However, these plans never materialized in their intended form; besides WGBX, the only other station that ultimately made it on the air was WGBY (channel 57) in Springfield, which launched in 1971. This can be seen on the first two seasons of. Was only seen as a local station ID. [14] Television and radio programs continued to be recorded at the Western Avenue studios until the WGBH stations completed the migration of their operations into the new facility in September 2007. There have been 2 versions, a long version and a short version. With Ruff Ruffman, among others. Note that due to WGBX's channel share agreement with NBC's WBTS-CD, WGBH instead carries the high definition feed identified as channel 44.1: In 2010, WGBH-TV became the first television station in the Boston market to provide a mobile DTV signal.

1993-2009: A version can occasionally be spotted in which the "glowing" animation is played, but no text appears. Alabama Public Television | Alaska Public Television | Arkansas PBS | PBS SoCal (KOCE/KCET) | Rocky Mountain PBS | Valley PBS | CPTV | South Florida PBS (WPBT/WXEL-TV) | GPB | PBS Hawai'i | Idaho Public Television | Network Knowledge | Iowa PBS | Smoky Hills PBS | KET | LPB | Maine Public | MPT | WCMU Public Media | Twin Cities Public Television | Lakeland PBS | Pioneer PBS | Mississippi Public Broadcasting | Ozarks Public Television | Montana PBS | NET | New Hampshire PBS | NJTV | New Mexico PBS (KNME/KNMD) | Milwaukee PBS | UNC-TV | Prairie Public Television | ThinkTV | Western Reserve PBS | OETA | OPB | Southern Oregon PBS | South Carolina ETV | South Dakota Public Broadcasting | East Tennessee PBS | Vermont PBS | VPM | Blue Ridge PBS | West Virginia Public Broadcasting | PBS Wisconsin | Wyoming PBS, Member Stations Availability: Extinct. As schools and students, families and educators adapt to the current health crisis, WGBH is supporting them with free, trusted digital resources from PBS LearningMedia. Another purple asterisk firework explodes in the bottom right.

Music/Sounds: Composed by Gershon Kingsley, we hear eerie, choppy, UFO-like computer blips that ascend and descend several times, followed by a rising Moog violin stinger. In March 1958, channel 2 began offering academic instructional television programs, with the debut of eight weekly science programs aimed at students in the sixth grade, which were televised “in some 48 separate school systems in and around the Boston area.” In November of that year, the station installed a new full-power transmitter donated by Westinghouse, which increased channel 2's transmitting power to 100,000 watts.[3]. [15][16] The old Western Avenue studios were renovated by Harvard University in 2011 to house the Harvard Innovation Lab. By 2005, WGBH had facilities in more than a dozen buildings in the Allston area. WHDH, NBC affiliate WBZ-TV (channel 4, as of January, 1995 a CBS owned-and-operated station) and ABC affiliate WNAC-TV (channel 7, now defunct; allocation now occupied by independent station WHDH that is unrelated to the above-mentioned WHDH which is now WCVB-TV) also provided technical and production assistance to the WGBH television and radio stations until a permanent facility was built to reintegrate the stations' operations. Logo: A brief flash shows us uncolored pipes.

Logo: Against a blue background, the letters "WGBH" in yellow in a generic Helvetica font quickly zoom back, away from the viewer to the vanishing point, and disappearing when the text is very small.