A former accountant for Channel 2 was indicted today on charges he embezzled $500,000 over nine years from the station.
Innocent, etc.
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By adamg - 12/19/08 - 2:19 pm
The Boston Business Journal reports WGBH will let 12 employees go and is making unspecified operations changes, due to declining corporate contributions.
By Ron Newman - 12/9/08 - 10:30 am
If you have an analog TV and analog Comcast cable service without a converter box, and you turn on WGBH-TV-2 right now, you're going to see something very wrong: video of normal WGBH programming, accompanied by audio of WGBH's continuously-looping Ready for Digital TV special.
The picture says "This TV is DTV Ready" while the sound says, from time to time, "This TV set is not ready for the switch to digital TV in February 2009". Also, the picture is shrunk down and enclosed in a black box.
By adamg - 7/18/08 - 10:32 am
More specifically, its Jumbotronish display next to the turnpike, which is going dark until cooler weather returns or the station installs a new cooling system to keep the LEDs from overheating.
By adamg - 4/4/08 - 4:22 pm
WBUR should either finally hire him so people can start donating to WGBH instead or they should announce they're not hiring him so people can stop getting heartburn.
By adamg - 4/2/08 - 11:02 am
VH1 this weekend is airing a documentary on the 40th anniversary of James Brown's concert at the Garden the day after Martin Luther King's assassination - the one then Mayor Kevin White came to realize could not be canceled - and had to be aired live on local TV (only Channel 2 put it on):
By adamg - 9/20/07 - 8:04 am
Will is distracted by that giant LED thing that got turned on this week at the new 'GBH building by the turnpike:
What is WGBH thinking?? A massive screen hanging over the highway?? ... I drove by this a week ago as they were testing it and it was distracting enough. ...
By adamg - 9/17/07 - 7:21 pm
Corie Lok reports on the filming of a Nova pilot in which passersby were invited to pose tough science questions to a trio of grad students sitting outside Grendel's Den:
By adamg - 7/31/07 - 12:58 pm
Michael Pahre relays the news that WGBH tomorrow begins testing a 30x45-foot outdoor TV screen - visible from the turnpike up to two miles away:
... Scheduled to become operational in mid-September - when WGBH formally dedicates its new studios - the 30-foot by 45-foot screen will display slowly changing images that evoke WGBH's award-winning science, history, public affairs, lifestyle, drama and children’s programming. ...
By adamg - 7/8/07 - 10:35 pm
Garrett Wollman photographs the demolition of the old pedestrian bridge that connected two WGBH buildings over Western Avenue before the station moved to new digs in Brighton.
Wollman notes Boston Redevelopment Authority regulations forced the station to demolish the bridge - the city doesn't allow a property owner to have more than one pedestrian bridge in the entire city, and the new Brighton facility also spans a road. Question: Why is there a need for this regulation? Was there an epidemic of developers putting up sun-blotting, eye-hurting pedestrian bridges?
By adamg - 6/28/07 - 9:06 am
Brian cannot believe that WGBH had to shut down its entire Web site when it moved from its old offices in Allston to new digs in Brighton this week:
Ouch! So GBH is this world-famous media company (a non-profit, but a seriously successful one) and they have these wonderful new studios in Brighton… and they have to shut down their entire site to move the servers? Really?
By tblade - 1/15/07 - 6:08 pm
Currently, civil rights are a Massachusetts hot button, with gay marriage and Jimmy Kelly penatrating the headlines and blog fodder.
Today being Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day of reflection on civil rights, I present two brief snapshots from Boston's voluminous civil rights history:
First, many people don't know that Dr. King first met Coretta Scott, a New England Conservatory student, during his time pursing a doctorate at BU. While here, he rented a room at 397 Mass Ave, where a small plaque still stands to commemorate his time in the Hub.
By adamg - 12/13/06 - 9:58 am
Borderline and family watch a lot of 'GBH, so he wishes they would can the new-age "RealAge" informercials and do something about the music programs they run during fund drives:
... [C]an someone at WGBH please take all of the tapes of that crazy Teutonic violinist Andrew Rieu and launch them into the heart of the sun? ...
By adamg - 12/11/06 - 3:00 pm
They'll need it for all the hate e-mail zinging its way to John Carroll now that the national Democratic blogs have picked up the story of how he and his Beat the Press-ters blew the whole blog-accountability issue the other day (see here, here and here):
By adamg - 12/10/06 - 10:16 am
On Blue Mass. Group, David reports learning two things from a "Beat the Press" show on political bloggers: John Carroll has a broken sarcasm meter (unable to figure out a joke even when it's explained to him) and Joe Sciacca of the Herald is under the impression that the Patrick campaign was disappointed when Blue Mass. Group endorsed Patrick.
By adamg - 10/17/06 - 11:28 am
Deb makes the mistake of turning on WGBH this morning:
... I absolutely cannot fucking believe what I'm seeing this morning. Pledge week! During the KIDS programming! Evil son of a bitching PBS bastards. ...
By adamg - 10/4/06 - 3:09 pm
From televised debates, that is. Greater Boston's Emily Rooney is among the media honchos who've put together gubernatorial debates this year and she says enough is enough: The fringe candidates have had their say, now it's time for Healey and Patrick to go at it mano a mano:
... After four attempts to "do the right thing", the media consortium needs to "do the gutsy thing" and pull the plug on Mihos and Ross for the November 1st debate so voters can hear what the two real contenders, Deval Patrick and Kerry Healey, have to say, unencumbered by a sideshow.
By adamg - 9/30/06 - 12:31 pm
Colleen Cunningham has her clock radio set to 89.7. This morning, it woke her up to 70's easy-listening Bread, followed by bird chirping followed by the classical you'd expect:
Very trippy and cheery!
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