[citation needed] The station, dubbed Boston Public Radio in 2009, renamed Boston's Local NPR, broadcasts a news-and-information format during the daytime (including NPR News programs and PRX's The World, which is a co-production of WGBH and PRX, and formerly the BBC World Service), and jazz music during the nighttime.

"[citation needed] According to Nielsen data aggregated by Ken Mills, a Minneapolis broadcast consultant, as of June 2017[update] the number of WGBH's listeners has nearly doubled since 2012, increasing from 235,200 to 445,200.

[citation needed] WGBH also operates a separately-programmed service for the Cape Cod and Islands area, with a full-time news-and-information format.

[citation needed] WGBH Educational Foundation received its first broadcasting license (for radio) in 1951 under the auspices of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, a consortium of local universities and cultural institutions, whose collaboration stems from an 1836 bequest by textile manufacturer John Lowell Jr. calling for free public lectures for the citizens of Boston.

[citation needed] WGBH was a charter member of NPR, and was one of the stations that carried the inaugural broadcast of All Things Considered in 1971.

In the summer of 2016, the station began broadcasting some of its programming from an on-air studio in the newly renovated Boston Public Library Johnson building, fronting on Boylston Street in Back Bay.

These broadcasts included (in addition to generally available recordings) recordings made by WGBH of regional chamber music and solo recital performances, live in-studio performances and interviews, as well as live broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from Symphony Hall (on Friday afternoons when the orchestra is scheduled to play), and Tanglewood (on Sunday afternoons in the summer).

[citation needed] In September 2009, the WGBH Educational Foundation announced a deal to acquire WCRB, a local classical music station.

[8] A significant number of WGBH's traditional classical listeners were sacrificed in the transition, as WCRB transmits from the North Shore of Boston, and cannot be received reliably in areas to the south, including Cape Cod.

Eric Jackson still does nine hours of jazz programming on weekends; Steve Schwartz's Friday show was eliminated completely.

[citation needed] WGBH and WBUR-FM both serve the Boston area, and there is some overlap between programming on the two stations (i.e. All Things Considered, Morning Edition).