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The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with nearly 379 member TV stations in the United States. PBS headquarters are in Alexandria, Virginia. PBS was founded in 1969, at which time it took over many of the functions of its predecessor, National Educational Television (NET). PBS commenced broadcasting in October 1970.
Flagship stations include WPBS and KPBS, based in NY and CaliforniaSan Diego is a city located in the southwestern corner of the state of California (and thus in the southwestern corner of the continental United States). It is the county seat of San Diego County, California. The city is noted for its temperate climate an respectively; WGBHWGBH is Boston, Massachusetts' longtime public television and public radio station ( PBS and NPR affiliates, respectively). WGBH also produces many shows for both networks, including nearly a third of PBS's prime-time TV. WGBH received its first broadcast 2 BostonAlternate meanings: Boston (disambiguation Old State House in Boston is surrounded by tall buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries. Boston is the capital and largest city in Massachusetts in the United States. It is the unofficial capital of the region k, WNETWNET Channel 13 is a American television station licensed by the FCC to serve Newark, New Jersey. WNET is one of the flagship stations of the Public Broadcasting Service television network, which provides educational and informational programming. WNET wa 13 NYC, WETA in Washington, DCWashington, DC officially the District of Columbia (also known as DC Washington and, historically, the Federal City is the capital city and administrative district of the United States of America. Residents of the city and its surrounding suburbs refer to, ETP-TVETP-TV is a PBS affiliate licensed by the FCC to serve in East Tennessee, USA. It has two channels in operation: WETP-TV Channel 2 (DT-41) WKOP-TV Channel 15 (DT-17). in Knoxville, TennesseeAlternate uses: Knoxville (disambiguation Knoxville is a city located in Knox County, Tennessee, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 173,890. It is the county seat of Knox County 6, and is the third-largest city in the, KCET in LA and WQED and KQED in Pittsburgh and San Francisco.
PBS is not a broadcast network in the traditional sense. Unlike the commercial television broadcast model, in which affiliates give up portions of their local advertising airtime in exchange for network programming, PBS member stations pay substantial fees for the shows acquired and distributed by the national organization.
This relationship means that PBS member stations have greater latitude in local scheduling than their commercial counterparts. Scheduling of PBS-distributed series may vary wildly from market to market. This can be a source of tension as stations seek to preserve their localism and PBS strives to market a consistent national lineup.
Much of the programming carried by PBS is created by individual local stations, with WGBH as one of the largest producers of US educational programming.
In 1970, Macdonald Carey (known as Dr. Tom Horton on Days of Our Lives) would voice-over and say "This is PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service." This ident served the network for its first year.
In 1971, PBS introduced the long-running "people" ident, which still serves the network today.
In 1984, the logo introduced the "split identity" format, which has become the most popular revision in the people identity's history.
The logo was remodeled to its 4th format in 1987 or 1989. It is sometimes the earliest of the surviving PBS identities and is often seen in reruns of Reading Rainbow and Amigos.
An identity now defunct was used from either 1989 or 1990 to 1997 as an alternative for the 4th PBS identity. It was used on all NewsHour episodes from 1995 to 1997.
Now only seen as the ending ident of Adventures from the Book of Virtues, the 6th PBS identity was introduced in 1996.
The first well-known identity in years was the 7th PBS identity, used from 2000 to 2002.
The eighth PBS logo was introduced in 2002 and continues to be used today.
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