PBS (disambiguation)

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

PBS may also refer to:

Broadcasting

• PBS Kids, which broadcasts most of PBS' original children's programs.
• PBS America, UK derivative of PBS
• 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
• Public Broadcasting Services, Malta
• Thai Public Broadcasting Service, Thai TV station

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 (NaH₂BO₄), 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, backup solution

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 UK
• Public Buildings Service of the US General Services Administration
• Swiss Guide and Scout Movement (German: Pfadibewegung Schweiz)
• Prayer Book Society of Canada
• Prayer Book Society of the USA or PBS USA
• Privatbanen Sønderjylland, a former Danish railway operator

Other uses

• Positive Black Soul, a Senegalese hip-hop group
• Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Australia, subsidizing medicines
• Product breakdown structure, a project-management tool
• Pearls Before Swine (comic strip), an American comic strip.
• Proto-Balto-Slavic, a reconstructed hypothetical proto-language.

See also

• PBS13, a violent street gang in Los Angeles, California, US