Public Broadcasting Service

American  

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of Public Broadcasting Service

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Postal Service, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Public Broadcasting Service were once important and excellent institutions.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said it is dissolving the 58-year-old nonprofit umbrella organization that oversaw government funding for the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio.

From The Wall Street Journal

I regret the difficulties this may have created for honest folk working at the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio.

From The Wall Street Journal

The private, nonprofit corporation provided funding to National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, but the bulk of its money was funneled to local stations around the country and other grantees.

From Salon

The original object of the party’s ire was the Public Broadcasting Service, established two years after Congress established the CPB in 1967.

From Salon