PBS (disambiguation)

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

PBS, pbs, or PBs may also refer to:

Arts and media

Broadcasting

Public Broadcasting Service(s)

• 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 broadcasters

• 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

Literature

• Poetry Book Society, founded in 1953 in the United Kingdom
• Prayer Book Society of Canada
• Prayer Book Society of the USA (PBS USA)
• Pearls Before Swine (comic strip), an American comic strip

Music

• Positive Black Soul, a Senegalese hip-hop group

See also: Public Service Broadcasting (band), an English musical group

Science, technology, and business

Physics, chemistry, and medicine

• Polarizing beam splitter, a component in experimental optics
• Lead(II) sulfide (PbS), an inorganic compound
• Polybutylene succinate, a synthetic polyester
• Sodium perborate (NaH₂BO₄), a white, odorless, water-soluble chemical compound
• Phosphate-buffered saline, a buffer solution commonly used in biological research
• Primer binding site, a region of a nucleotide sequence
• Prune belly syndrome, a medical condition
• Positive behavior support, a substantiated form of applied behavior analysis

Computing and administration

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

Transportation

• PBS Velká Bíteš, a Czech aircraft engine company
• Privatbanen Sønderjylland, a former Danish railway operator

Communities

See also: § Literature

• Pacific Bulb Society, an international nonprofit focused on flowering bulbs and other geophytes
• Pink Boots Society, supporting women working in brewing
• Swiss Guide and Scout Movement (German: Pfadibewegung Schweiz)
• Playboys 13 Gang (PBS13), a street gang centered around Los Angeles, California, United States

Government

• Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, an Australian Government subsidy for prescription medication
• Pakistan Bureau of Statistics
• Public Buildings Service, of the US General Services Administration

Languages

• Proto-Balto-Slavic language, a reconstructed proto-language
• Central Pame language (ISO 639-3 code: pbs) of Santa María Acapulco, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, in the Oto-Manguean family

Other uses

• Parti Bersatu Sabah, a Malaysian political party

See also

• PB (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with PBS
• All pages with titles containing PBS