public television

American  

noun

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

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public television

Hungary's main public television channel has halted news broadcasts, while a state-run radio station has been suspended altogether, in a bid to make its media "independent and trustworthy".

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

It’s a public television mainstay that plays well with niche audiences too, as Twitch discovered when a nine-day marathon in 2015 proved to be enormously popular.

From Salon ● May 2, 2026

But Child, a Pasadena, Calif., native who landed her first cooking show on Boston public television in 1963, was the true pioneer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Polish public television TVP said 15 people have died in mines this year.

From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025

But it’s not all that useful for, say, a group of people trying to spark a literacy epidemic with a small budget and one hour of programming on public television.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell