Public Broadcasting Service

noun

a network of independent, noncommercial television stations that operate with public and government funding instead of with revenues from advertising. : PBS

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Public Broadcasting Service¹

First recorded in 1965–70

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Khanna was asking about things any of the millions of parents with children who watch one of the Public Broadcasting Service’s most popular children’s programs would know.

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The Broadcasting Act 2009 requires RTÉ to provide a public broadcasting service that "will be made available to the whole community on the island of Ireland".

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Earlier, the Thai Public Broadcasting Service quoted police saying that three women and three men had died.

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He was working as a television producer when he was asked to collaborate with other TV innovators assembled by the Ford Foundation in the early 1960s to transform a limited service that generated no original programming into National Educational Television, the forerunner of the Public Broadcasting Service.

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But he came to reject the flashier style of the commercial American networks, and in 1971 he joined the fledgling Public Broadcasting Service.

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