public television

noun

1. a type of noncommercial, usually educational, television programming funded by the government, grants, viewers, and corporations.

Example Sentences

Meanwhile, a bill currently in the Israeli Knesset put forth by Benjamin Netanyahu’s communications minister aims to shut down public television and radically expand government control over the country’s independent media and cultural institutions.

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Taiwan has plenty of experience of barrier lakes - 88 have been formed on the island since the 1970s, according to Taiwan's Public Television Service.

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CPB President and Chief Executive Patricia Harrison, who accepted the award on the organization’s behalf, said the organization was a steward of federal funds that helped public television stations meet the changing information needs of the communities they serve, providing access to commercial-free high quality content.

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The Corp. for Public Broadcasting helps support more than 1,500 local public television and radio stations nationwide.

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But without funding from public television, his educational programming such as “The Civil War” and “Baseball” might never have existed, he told “PBS News Hour” in an interview Thursday.

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