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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 February 2025. American public television network This article is about the American broadcaster. For other uses, see PBS (disambiguation). "Public Broadcasting Service" redirects here. For other uses, see Public broadcasting service (disambiguation). Television channel Public Broadcasting Service ...
PBS Home Video was renamed PBS Distribution—PBSd in 2009, and became independent again in 2011. PBSd is jointly owned by PBS and the WGBH Educational Foundation . [ 4 ] It is currently distributing PBS programs and movies on DVD , Blu-ray , digital downloads , and video on demand and PBS Kids programs on DVD and digital downloads. [ 4 ]
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 is expanding its presence in the linear, free streaming channel business. The public broadcaster has sealed a deal with Amazon to stream its PBS Kids channel, as well as 150 local PBS stations ...
Today, Amazon.com said it has signed a multiyear deal with PBS to add hundreds of additional PBS episodes to its Amazon Prime online streaming service. Amazon will add episodes from shows like ...
MGM Holdings (20%, with Sony Corporation of America, Providence Equity Partners, TPG Capital, DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group), split in 2010 due to the emergence from bankruptcy, now owned by Amazon. Comcast SportsNet Houston; QVC: Comcast sold its majority stake to Liberty Media in 2003
Of the 354 PBS members currently operating as of 2017 (which account for 97% of the 365 public television stations in the U.S.), roughly half belong to one of 40 state or regional networks, which carry programming fed by a parent station to a network of satellite transmitters throughout the entirety or a sub-region of an individual state; this ...
PBS Western Reserve is the brand name for Northeastern Educational Television of Ohio, Inc. It comprises television stations WNEO, serving the greater Youngstown area, and WEAO, serving Akron ...