PBS: Perbezaan antara semakan

DiasaskanDitubuhkan pada 3 November 1969 oleh Hartford N. Gunn Jr. (presiden WGBH), John Macy (presiden CPB), James Day (presiden terakhir [[National Educational Television]]), dan Kenneth A. Christiansen (pengerusi jabatan penyiaran di Universiti Florida).<ref>{{cite web|title=Articles of Incorporation of Public Broadcasting Service| url=http://www.current.org/pbpb/documents/PBSarticles69.html|author=Public Broadcasting PolicyBase|work=Current|date=January 14, 2000|accessdate=January 12, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010406090018/http://www.current.org/pbpb/documents/PBSarticles69.html | archive-date=April 6, 2001}}</ref>

PBS memulakan operasinya pada 5 Oktober 1970, mengambil alih fungsi pendahulunya, [[National Educational Television]] (NET), yang kemudian bergabung dengan stesen Newark, New Jersey WNDT bagi membentuk WNET.<ref>{{cite web|title=Articles of Incorporation of Public Broadcasting Service| url=http://www.current.org/pbpb/documents/PBSarticles69.html|author=Public Broadcasting PolicyBase|work=Current|date=January 14, 2000|accessdate=January 12, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010406090018/http://www.current.org/pbpb/documents/PBSarticles69.html | archive-date=April 6, 2001}}</ref> Pada tahun 1973, bergabung dengan Educational Television Stations.<ref name="JARVIK">{{cite book|title=PBS, behind the screen|author=Laurence Ariel Jarvik|publisher=Forum|location=[[Rocklin, California]]|year=1997|isbn=0761506683}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Public TV Faces Fund Struggles|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SelHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=n_8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=805,469633&dq=hartford+public+broadcasting+television+gunn&hl=en|newspaper=[[Record-Journal|The Morning Record]]|via=[[Google News]]|date=|accessdate=October 28, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Vanishing Vision: The Inside Story of Public Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dKYZynRiU6YC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=hartford+n+gunn+jr&source=bl&ots=yWuk8BdeHR&sig=E6rW2CuA9PvX0ma5pLqZVTD03m4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=k2dLUum9ING24APc14H4BA&ved=0CGAQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=hartford%20n%20gunn%20jr&f=false|author=James Day|via=[[Google Books]]|date=September 16, 1969|accessdate=October 23, 2013}}</ref>