In the 1990s, the WGBH Educational Foundation published books and other educational materials such as ''Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery''. In 2003, WGBH and the City of Boston formed a joint venture for Boston Kids & Family TV channel that replaces one of the city's cable access channels. Boston Kids was launched on October 31, 2003. By December 2005, Boston’s WGBH and New York City's
WNET were already broadcasting a local version of
World on a subchannel. and added by April 2006, Washington’s
WETA. Then, WGBH and WNET teamed up with PBS, APT and NETA to roll out a national version of the local channels as PBS World. The network was launched nationally on August 15, 2007. In July 2012, WGBH acquired
Public Radio International (PRI). PRI would continue with its own board while WGBH would be able to distribute more of its programs through PRI. In November 2015, WGBH purchased
GlobalPost, with editorial operation and reporting resources being merged with PRI's The World news staff. On August 27, 2020, it was announced that WGBH would shorten its name to "GBH" as part of a larger corporate reimaging (which saw the adoption of purple as a new corporate color, and a font originally commissioned for
Red Hat as its new corporate typeface). The foundation stated that due to its present-day multi-platform operations, the full WGBH
call sign was too synonymous with broadcast media; "WGBH" will still be used as part of the organization's formal name. All other WGBH-owned and operated stations similarly dropped the W from their respective brandings, such as
WCRB rebranding as "CRB Classical 99.5". ==Board of trustees==