Jonathan C. Abbott

Jon Abbott is President and CEO of WGBH—public broadcasting for New England, PBS’s leading content producer, and a major supplier of programming for public radio nationwide.

Abbott is a nationally recognized public media leader who has transformed the way WGBH creates and distributes educationally rich content to millions of Americans throughout New England and across the nation. He has expanded WGBH’s media services, impact, and reach locally and nationally—on TV, radio, the Web, and mobile, in living rooms and classrooms. He championed WGBH’s early adoption of digital technologies, new content creation models, best practices, and cost efficiencies that are furthering WGBH’s capacity to produce programming and content in the public interest, supported by the public WGBH serves.