[#791] WGBH Logo History (1972-present)
Channel: ITB ITB
Date: 2018-03-15

DESCRIPTION: WGBH-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 19), is a PBS member television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The station is ownd by, and is the flagship property of, the WGBH Educational Foundation, which also owns fellow PBS stations WGBX-TV (channel 44) in Boston and WGBY-TV (channel 57) in Springfield, Massachusetts, and public radio stations WGBH (89.7 FM) and WCRB (99.5 FM) in the Boston area, and WCAI (90.1 FM) (and satellites WZAI and WNAN) in Cape Cod. WGBH is also one of two flagship stations of PBS, since most of PBS's programming comes from WGBH-TV and WNET in New York City. WGBH maintains studio facilities (which it shares with WGBX and the WGBH and WCRB radio stations) located on Guest and Market Streets in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, and its transmitter is located at 350 Cedar Street (southwest of Interstate 95) in Needham, Massachusetts. Under an agreement with Shaw Broadcast Services, WGBH operates a satellite uplink facility at the station's Needham transmitter site. The facility relays the signals of WGBH and four other Boston-area television stations - CBS owned-and-operated station WBZ-TV (channel 4), ABC affiliate WCVB-TV (channel 5), NBC owned-and-operated station WBTS-LD (channel 8), Fox affiliate WFXT (channel 25) - to cable and satellite television providers across Atlantic Canada, and also relays the signal of MyNetworkTV affiliate WSBK-TV (channel 38) to pay television providers throughout Canada. As a Canadian company, Shaw is not legally entitled to operate an uplink facility in the United States; as such, the company pays the WGBH Educational Foundation to perform this service on Shaw's behalf.

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