Overview

WGBH Educational Foundation is a public broadcaster that produces and distributes television and radio content for PBS and public radio, operating stations such as WGBH-TV and WGBH 89.7 FM in Boston. Its programs cover news, documentaries, children’s shows, and cultural series, including Frontline, Nova, and Masterpiece. It funds production as a non-profit through viewer/listener contributions, grants from foundations and corporations, government funding, and licensing or merchandise revenue. It differentiates itself as PBS’s largest content producer with a broad catalog across genres and a strong educational mission, aiming to educate and inform the public and sustain public broadcasting through diverse funding and distribution.