PBS

Public Broadcasting Service: a network of noncommercial television stations devoted to educational and other quality programming and funded by members' contributions, government allocations, and grants from private industry.

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Contemporary Examples of pbs

Cookie Monster has always been one of the most beloved features of that PBS childhood staple, Sesame Street.
Cookie Monster Stars in Harry Potter Parody
Jack Holmes, The Daily Beast Video
October 28, 2014
PBS ran a program featuring Sommers and Paglia called “Has feminism gone too far?”
Carol Shields’s Tale Of Secondhand Life
Nathaniel Rich
October 26, 2014
Tavis Smiley, the PBS talk show host and close friend to Cornel West, often credits West with having a “useable intellect.”
Cornel West’s Disappointing Decline
David Masciotra
October 23, 2014
Smiley is a PBS talk show host who has written several previous books about the African-American experience.
Tavis Smiley Humanely Chronicles MLK’s Sad Last Year
Scott Porch
October 16, 2014
Ken Burns practically has a monopoly on televised public history and especially the history broadcast by PBS.
Ken Burns’s ‘Roosevelts’ Fine But Flawed
Harvey J. Kaye
September 14, 2014

British Dictionary definitions for pbs

PBS

abbreviation for

US Public Broadcasting Service

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for pbs

PBS

abbreviation of Public Broadcasting Service, 1970, America English. It succeeded National Educational Television (NET).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper