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WORLD Channel, public media’s premiere platform for diverse voices, has received its first-ever IDA Documentary Award. Monica Land’s revolutionary Fannie Lou Hamer's America: An America ReFramed Special. a co-production by WORLD Channel, American Documentary and Black Public Media in partnership with PBS won the “Best TV Feature Documentary or Mini-Series” award, announced over the weekend by the International Documentary Association at the 38th IDA Awards ceremony held at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles on Saturday, December 10, 2022.

The PBS science series NOVA today announced a new one-hour film, BEFORE THE ICE (w.t.), produced by HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and Handful of Films for GBH, that will present an unprecedented, detailed portrait of the high Arctic two million years ago–made possible by a revolutionary breakthrough in ancient DNA science. The groundbreaking discovery is the subject of a paper published as the cover article in the December 7 issue of Nature, reporting the recovery and sequencing of more than 100 plant and animal genera contained in sediment from Northern Greenland dating to at least 2 million years ago. This breakthrough is around one million years older than any DNA sample previously recovered. The documentary is currently in production and slated to premiere in early 2024 on PBS.

GBH is helping Massachusetts music fans get into the festive spirit with A Holiday Celebration, a live concert showcasing seasonal selections with a cast of renowned classical, jazz and Celtic musicians in GBH’s acclaimed Fraser Performance Studio on Thursday, December 15. The program will feature the Boston Children’s Chorus; tenor Lawrence Brownlee; Renaissance Men; pianist Jacqueline Schwab; and The Charles Overton Group. The event will be hosted by CRB afternoon host Greg Ferrisi. In addition to the in-person experience, the performance can be streamed virtually for free with an RSVP.

Susan Goldberg, a media executive and leader of technological and cultural transformation, will be the next President and CEO of GBH. She is the first woman to hold this role since GBH was founded in 1951.

High School Quiz Show®, GBH’s televised academic tournament for Massachusetts high schools, has revealed the 17 teams that will compete for the Season 14 State Championship title. The qualifying schools received the highest scores at High School Quiz Show’s Super Sunday event on November 6, where 65 schools from across the Commonwealth took a written quiz at GBH’s studios in Brighton. On the bracket are four first–time competitors as well as defending Season 13 champion, North Quincy High School.