A ranar 5 ga Oktoba, 1970, aka fara watsa shirye-shiryen Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), daya daga cikin manyan kafafen talabijin na jama’a a Amurka.
Kafin kafuwar PBS, akwai National Educational Television (NET), wadda aka kafa a shekarar 1952. Sai dai, a shekarar 1967, Shugaban Amurka Lyndon B. Johnson ya rattaba hannu kan Public Broadcasting Act, wanda ya share fagen kafa tsarin yada shirye-shiryen jama’a na kasa.
An yi wa PBS rajista a ranar 3 ga Nuwamba, 1969, kafin ta fara aiki a hukumance a ranar 5 ga Oktoba, 1970.
PBS ta shahara wajen shirye-shiryen ilimi, yara, tarihi, al’adu da labarai, ciki har da Sesame Street. A shekarar 1973, ta kuma samu karbuwa sosai bayan ta watsa zaman binciken badakalar Watergate.
Har zuwa yau, PBS na daga cikin muhimman kafafen yada shirye-shiryen jama’a a Amurka, tare da daruruwan gidajen talabijin membobi a fadin kasar.
