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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Cookie Monster has always been one of the most beloved features of that PBS childhood staple, Sesame Street.
PBS ran a program featuring Sommers and Paglia called “Has feminism gone too far?”
Tavis Smiley, the PBS talk show host and close friend to Cornel West, often credits West with having a “useable intellect.”
Smiley is a PBS talk show host who has written several previous books about the African-American experience.
Ken Burns practically has a monopoly on televised public history and especially the history broadcast by PBS.
PBS
- US Public Broadcasting Service
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Word Origin and History for pbs
PBS
abbreviation of Public Broadcasting Service, 1970, America English. It succeeded National Educational Television (NET).
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