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Former PBS headquarters in Crystal City, Virginia. PBS was established on November 3, 1969, by Hartford N. Gunn Jr. (president of WGBH), John Macy (president of CPB), James Day (last president of National Educational Television), and Kenneth A. Christiansen (chairman of the department of broadcasting at the University of Florida).
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created on November 7, 1967, when U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.The new organization initially collaborated with the National Educational Television network—which would be replaced by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) – PBS is the largest public broadcasting network in the U.S., with somewhat decentralized operations (PBS is essentially owned through a consortium of its member stations, reversing the traditional network-station ownership model).
This is a list of member stations of the Public Broadcasting Service, a network of non-commercial educational television stations in the United States.The list is arranged alphabetically by state and based on the station's city of license and followed in parentheses by the designated market area when different from the city of license.
PBS streams some free shows on its app, but also has PBS Passport, provided to PBS donors for $5 a month and featuring most of the service’s programs. Amazon Channels, meanwhile, has PBS ...
Public broadcasting (or public service broadcasting) involves radio, television, and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing, and commercial financing, and claim to avoid both political interference and commercial influence.
The U.S. public broadcasting system differs from such systems in other countries, in that the principal public television and radio broadcasters – the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), respectively – operate as separate entities. Some of the funding comes from community support to hundreds of public radio ...
The following is a list of programs currently or formerly distributed through the American PBS stations and other public television entities. Current programming 1 Syndicated to public television stations by the National Educational Telecommunications Association.