America's Public Television Stations (APTS) is a non-profit membership organization established in 1979 when the

Public Broadcasting Service The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educati ...

(PBS) board of directors commissioned the public television "system planning project" to consider the most appropriate organization of national service functions for public television for the 1980s. Its major role is representing America's 170 public television licensees in federal legislative, regulatory and related matters in Washington, DC.

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