The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Joins Public Media Partner PBS in Celebrating 50 Years of Service to the American People

PBS, the nonprofit member organization and public media program distributor, is celebrating its 50^th anniversary. PBS, with 330 member stations serving all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and American Samoa, provides more than 1,200 hours a year of children's, primetime, educational, and cultural programming. Since its establishment by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in 1969 and its very first broadcast, The French Chef with Julia Child, PBS has fulfilled public media’s mission to provide programming and services that educate, inspire, entertain and express a diversity of perspectives.