page_title: WGBH (FM)
hierarchical_section_title: WGBH (FM)
caption_attribution_description: English: The WGBH building in Boston, seen from Market Street/North Beacon Street crossing. The radio program "The World" is produced in the right part of the building, see the sign in the left ground floor window.
context_page_description: WGBH is a public radio station located in Boston, Massachusetts. WGBH is a member station of National Public Radio and affiliate of Public Radio International, which itself is owned by the WGBH Educational Foundation, and American Public Media. The license-holder is WGBH Educational Foundation, which also owns company flagship WGBH-TV and WGBX-TV, along with WGBY-TV in Springfield.
  The station, dubbed Boston Public Radio in 2009, renamed Boston's Local NPR, broadcasts a news-and-information format during the daytime, and jazz music during the nighttime.
  Prior to December 1, 2009, the station had a mixed news and entertainment format, featuring local jazz and blues programs, with the station tagline being ‘’Boston’s NPR Arts & Culture Station’’, to differentiate it from all news WBUR-FM, also located in Boston and known at the time as “Boston’s NPR News Station.” Following the rebranding, many of the station’s culture related programming was dropped in favor of nationally syndicated NPR, PRI, and APM programs.
  "GBH" stands for Great Blue Hill in Milton, Massachusetts, the location of WGBH's FM transmitter, as well as the original location of WGBH-TV's transmitter.
context_section_description: WGBH (89.7 MHz) is a public radio station located in Boston, Massachusetts. WGBH is a member station of National Public Radio (NPR) and affiliate of Public Radio International (PRI), which itself is owned by the WGBH Educational Foundation, and American Public Media (APM). The license-holder is WGBH Educational Foundation, which also owns company flagship WGBH-TV and WGBX-TV, along with WGBY-TV in Springfield.
  The station, dubbed Boston Public Radio in 2009, renamed Boston's Local NPR, broadcasts a news-and-information format during the daytime (including NPR News programs and PRI's The World, which is a co-production of WGBH, PRI, and the BBC World Service), and jazz music during the nighttime.
  Prior to December 1, 2009, the station had a mixed news and entertainment format, featuring local jazz and blues programs, with the station tagline being ‘’Boston’s NPR Arts & Culture Station’’, to differentiate it from all news WBUR-FM, also located in Boston and known at the time as “Boston’s NPR News Station.” Following the rebranding, many of the station’s culture related programming was dropped in favor of nationally syndicated NPR, PRI, and APM programs.
  "GBH" stands for Great Blue Hill in Milton, Massachusetts, the location of WGBH's FM transmitter, as well as the original location of WGBH-TV's transmitter. Great Blue Hill has an elevation of 635 feet (193 m), is located within the Blue Hills Reservation, and is the highest natural point in the Boston area. (Mai Cramer, longtime host of the program Blues After Hours, jokingly maintained that the station's call sign stands for "We Got Blues Here!")
  According to Ken Mills, a Minneapolis broadcast consultant and Nielsen data, the number of listeners of WGBH has doubled since 2012, increasing from 235,200 to 445,200. WGBH is the 10th-most-popular NPR news station in the United States.
caption: WGBH radio studios in Boston (on Market Street, within the WGBH Guest Street studio complex)
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