Public broadcasting

Public broadcasting (also known as public service broadcasting or PSB) is the dominant form of broadcasting around the world, where radio, television, and potentially other electronic media outlets receive funding from the public. These funds can come directly from individuals through donations or fees, or indirectly as state subsidies that originated in taxes or other national funding sources. Some public broadcasters supplement this with contributions from corporations, which may be granted a limited amount of advertising time in return. However, when advertisements occur on public broadcasting outlets, they are usually much shorter and less attention-grabbing than on commercial broadcasting stations. Commercial broadcasting only occurs in a handful of large Western countries.

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Broadcasting - Radio - Television - Media - Public - Donation - Fee - State - Subsidies - Tax - Corporation - Advertising - Commercial broadcasting

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One of the best known public broadcaster is the British Broadcasting Corporation, based in the United Kingdom, whose mission is to "inform, educate and entertain". In the United States, public broadcasting is more decentralized and is not government operated, but, rather, government supported. The majority of funding comes from community support to hundreds of public radio and public television stations, each of which is an individual entity licensed to one of several different non-profit organizations, municipal or state governments, or universities. These organizations often produce their own programs, but largely depend upon national producers and program distributors such as National Public Radio (NPR), Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Public Radio International (PRI), and American Public Media. U.S. Government support is filtered through a separate organization, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).

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British Broadcasting Corporation - United Kingdom

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