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WGBH-TV, channel 2, is a non-commercial educational PBS member television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The station is owned by the WGBH Educational Foundation, which also owns and operates: WGBX-TV (channel 44), Springfield, Massachusetts-based PBS station WGBY-TV (channel 57) and public radio stations WGBH (FM) and WCRB in the Boston area, and WCAI (and satellites WZAI and WNAN) in Cape Cod. WGBH's studios are located on Guest Street in Boston, and its transmitter is located in Needham, Massachusetts. WGBH is one of six local Boston television stations that are available in Canada on satellite provider Bell TV. == Overview == Today, WGBH-TV produces more than two-thirds of the nationally distributed programs broadcast by PBS. These include shows such as ''Nova'', ''Frontline'', ''Masterpiece'', ''American Experience'', ''The Victory Garden'' and ''This Old House''. In years past, WGBH was home to ''The French Chef,'' a beloved fixture on American TV and an icon of American culture. WGBH's "The Scarlet Letter" (mini-series) was a major costume drama produced on-location/film-style (PBS's highest-rated series for many years) and was the first challenger to the British hegemony in such programming. SInce then, the station has co-produced numerous period dramas with British production companies. Broadcasts with the Boston Symphony established the genre as a staple on television. ''A Roomful of Music'', produced by Greg Harney, featured Pete Seeger and other music pioneers. WGBH's experiments in television changed the face of the medium—Nam June Paik's wild morphing of the television image, antic adventures in narrative story-telling ("What's Happening, Mr SIlver?", ''Nine Heroes''); Ron Hayes' stunning visual video explosion (slit-scan imagery) inspired by the yearning, driving themes of Wagner's''liebestod''; and the two-screen color stereo dance extravaganza, ''CITY/motion/space/game''. Pioneering arts series in collaboration with Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (''Museum Open House, Images, Eye-to-Eye'') set the bar for the medium and were a major contributing force in what we now call "video art". The Workshop for New Television was a hot-bed of creative activity for many years and created startling works in dance (Dan Wagoner's ''George's House'') and in drama (Mary Feldhaus-Weber's ''RED, BLUE, GOLD''), WGBH is also considered a leader in accessible media services for the deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind and visually impaired. WGBH invented closed captioning for television, audio description (Descriptive Video Service), and created the Rear Window Captioning System for films; WGBH provides these access services to commercial and public television producers, and to home video, websites and movie theaters nationwide. WGBH operates a Shaw Broadcast Services satellite uplink facility which provides broadcast television stations from the Boston area to cable and satellite television providers in Canada. As a Canadian company, Shaw is not legally entitled to operate an uplink facility in the United States. As a result, the company pays WGBH to perform this service on its behalf. This facility is also located at the station's transmitter tower in Needham. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WGBH-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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