Public Broadcasting Service

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Public Broadcasting Service¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

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".

From BBC

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

From BBC

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.

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

“I have to believe that people are looking for new stuff,” said Paula Kerger, CEO of the Public Broadcasting Service.

From Seattle Times