PBS YOU
American educational television channel / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PBS YOU (stylized as pbs you; the latter word is an acronym for "Your Own University") was founded in the late 1990s as a 24/7 channel/network featuring formal and informal educational programs and college-related fare, largely to take advantage of available rights and satellite transponder space and eager customers for carriage among the satellite-dish and some cable television companies.
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Type | PBS/APT |
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Availability | 24/7 Channel |
Founded | 1998; 26 years ago (1998) |
Owner | PBS |
Launch date | January 15, 2000; 24 years ago (2000-01-15) |
Dissolved | January 9, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-01-09) |
Official website | Archived official website at the Wayback Machine |
Replaced by | Create |
How-to programs and public affairs programs and news predominated. An American Public Television, WGBH and WNET partnership now offers two similar alternative national services, Create, which was introduced in January 2006, and World, beginning national service August 2007.
PBS YOU formerly included PBS Adult Learning Service (ALS) telecourses for college credit and foreign language instruction. PBS ALS has been decommissioned as of September 2005; the Annenberg/CPB Channel remained in place as a source of networked feeds of credit courses.