PBS is the Public Broadcasting Service, a nonprofit television service in the United States.

PBS, pbs, or PBs may also refer to:

Broadcasting

Public broadcast

  • PBS Kids, an American children's programming brand
  • PBS America, a British free-to-air television channel
  • Public Broadcasting Services, Malta
  • Thai Public Broadcasting Service, Thai TV station

Other uses in broadcasting

  • PBS 106.7FM, a community radio station in Melbourne, Australia
  • Pacific Broadcasting System, a Filipino radio network
  • Palestine Broadcasting Service (1936–1948), British Mandate for Palestine
  • People's Broadcasting Service a Filipino radio network, managed by Bombo Radyo Philippines
  • Presidential Broadcast Service, a Filipino government-owned radio network
  • Progressive Broadcasting System (early 1950s), a defunct American radio network

Science and technology

  • Lead(II) sulfide (PbS), an inorganic compound
  • Phosphate-buffered saline, a buffer solution commonly used in biological research
  • Polarizing beam splitter, a component in experimental optics
  • Polybutylene succinate, a synthetic polyester
  • Positive behavior support, a substantiated form of applied behavior analysis
  • Primer binding site, a region of a nucleotide sequence
  • Sodium perborate (NaH<sub>2</sub>BO<sub>4</sub>), a white, odorless, water-soluble chemical compound

Computing

  • Portable Batch System, a computer software that performs job scheduling
  • Preferential bidding system, a computer system for employee work-duty bidding
  • Proxmox Backup Server, a Linux distribution for backup of virtual machines, containers, and physical hosts

Organizations

  • Pacific Bulb Society
  • Pakistan Bureau of Statistics
  • Parti Bersatu Sabah, a Malaysian political party
  • PBS Velká Bíteš, a Czech aircraft engine company
  • Pink Boots Society, supporting women working in brewing
  • Poetry Book Society, founded in 1953 in the United Kingdom
  • Public Buildings Service, of the US General Services Administration
  • Swiss Guide and Scout Movement (German: )
  • Prayer Book Society of Canada
  • Prayer Book Society of the USA (PBS USA)
  • Privatbanen Sønderjylland, a former Danish railway operator
  • Public Service Broadcasting (band), an English musical group

Other uses

  • Positive Black Soul, a Senegalese hip-hop group
  • Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, an Australian Government subsidy for prescription medication
  • Prune belly syndrome, a medical condition
  • Product breakdown structure, a project-management tool
  • Pearls Before Swine (comic strip), an American comic strip
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic language, a reconstructed proto-language
  • Central Pame language (ISO 639-3 code)

See also

  • PBS13, a violent street gang in Los Angeles, California, United States