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WGBH ( 89 . 7 FM MHz ) is a public radio station located in Boston , Massachusetts . WGBH is a member station of National Public Radio ( NPR ) and an affiliate of Public Radio International ( PRI ) and American Public Media ( APM ) . The license - holder is the WGBH Educational Foundation , which also owns WGBH - TV and WGBX - TV . The station , dubbed `` Boston Public Radio '' , 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 . `` GBH '' stands for Great Blue Hill , the location of WGBH ' s FM transmitter , as well as the original location of WGBH - TV ' s transmitter . Great Blue Hill in Milton , Massachusetts , has an elevation of 635 feet ( 193 m ) , is located within the Blue Hills Reservation , and is the highest 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 ! '' ) Public Radio International ( PRI ) is a Minneapolis - based American public radio organization , with locations in Boston , New York , London and Beijing . PRI is a media content creator and also distributes programs from many sources , competing with National Public Radio , American Public Media and the Public Radio Exchange to provide programming to public radio stations . Boston ( pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States . Boston is also the seat of Suffolk County , although the county government was disbanded on July 1 , 1999 . The city proper covers with an estimated population of 667 , 137 in ___MASK41___ , making it the largest city in New England and the 23rd most populous city in the United States . The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston , a Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ) home to a census - estimated 4 . 7 million people in 2014 and ranking as the tenth - largest such area in the country . Alternately , as a Combined Statistical Area ( CSA ), this wider commuting region is home to some 8 . 1 million people , making it the sixth - largest as such in the United States . Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County , and larger of the Twin Cities , the 16th - largest metropolitan area in the United States , containing about 3 . 5 million residents . As of ___MASK41___ , Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota and 46th - largest in the United States with a population of 410 , 939 . Minneapolis and Saint Paul anchor the second - largest economic center in the Midwest , after Chicago . WGBX - TV , virtual channel 44 ( UHF digital channel 43 ), is a non - commercial educational PBS member television station located in Boston , Massachusetts , United States . The station is owned by the WGBH Educational Foundation , and is a sister station to ___MASK14___ Boston area PBS member station WGBH - TV ( channel 2 ), Springfield , Massachusetts - based PBS station WGBY - TV ( channel 57 ) and Boston area public radio stations WGBH ( FM ) and WCRB , and WCAI radio ( and satellites WZAI and WNAN ) on Cape Cod . WGBX ' s studios are located on Guest Street in Boston , and its transmitter is located in Needham , Massachusetts . American Public Media ( APM ) is the second largest producer of public radio programs in the United States after NPR . Its non - profit parent , American Public Media Group , also owns and operates radio stations in Minnesota and California . Its station brands include Minnesota Public Radio and Southern California Public Radio . Until July ___MASK41___ , APM also operated Classical South Florida , which was sold to Educational Media Foundation , a California - based religious broadcasting company that airs contemporary Christian music . The WGBH Educational Foundation ( established 1951 ) of Boston , Massachusetts is a ___MASK44___ that oversees the WGBH stations in Boston ( WGBH - TV , WGBX - TV and WGBH ( FM )), WGBY - TV in Springfield , and other productions . It won a ___MASK95___ in 2007 for "" and " Design Squad ". WGBH - TV , channel 2 , is a non - commercial educational PBS member television station located in Boston , Massachusetts . 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 .