Mellon Foundation Awards Boston’s GBH $16 Million For American Archive Of Public Broadcasting

Awarded Grant

The MELLON FOUNDATION has awarded WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, owner of News-Talk WGBH-F (GBH) and PBS affiliates WGBH-TV and WGBX-TV/BOSTON, $16 million to support the AMERICAN ARCHIVE OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING.

GBH President/CEO SUSAN GOLDBERG said, “We are grateful to the MELLON FOUNDATION for their support of the AMERICAN ARCHIVE OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING. This vast collection of public media programs is AMERICAN history as seen through local, regional and national lenses, but we are in a race against time to preserve these at-risk treasures now on fragile and obsolete formats. The AAPB ensures that critical works of culture, news, arts and more are identified and made accessible to the public for years to come.” 

MELLON FOUNDATION Program Officer for Public Knowledge PATRICIA HSWE said, "The preservation of public media is as critical as its creation. MELLON’s commitment to help ensure the longevity of this multi-vocal cultural and civic heritage will provide future generations opportunities to understand themselves and their communities in more complete ways. I'm thrilled that GBH, in collaboration with THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, will be able to pursue this rescue work on a large scale and make substantial progress in saving this endangered media."

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