PBS YOU

American educational television channel

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PBS YOU

Type| PBS/APT
Country|

United States

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

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.

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 remains in place as a source of networked feeds of credit courses.

## Demise[edit]

PBS YOU had long been vulnerable to budget concerns at PBS.

In late 2001, YOU was in danger of being shut down altogether. A deal with New River Media, producers of Think Tank and with the producers of the Standard Deviants educational series for teens helped to provide a reprieve for the channel, which largely reverted to its initial mix of programming in 2002 after having carried a preponderance of programming from those two sources.

In the wake of the closure of the original incarnation of the PBS Kids Channel on September 26, 2005 (in favor of the new commercial partnership service PBS Kids Sprout), YOU's future was once again in doubt and eventually followed suit on January 9, 2006. The Create network was created to partially fill the void left by the closure of YOU.

Prior to its cancellation, PBS YOU was carried by 67 PBS member stations (via ATSC subchannels), DirecTV, Dish Network and select digital cable providers.

## See also[edit]

* Create (television network)

## External links[edit]

* Archived official website at the Wayback Machine

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PBS

* National Association of Educational Broadcasters (1925–1981)
* National Educational Television (1952–1970)
* American Public Television (1961–)
* Educational Television Stations (1963–1973)
* Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
* Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1967–)
* America's Public Television Stations (1979–)

Documentaries|

* Independent Lens (episodes) (since August 9, 1999)
* PBS Short Film Festival (since 2012)
* POV (episodes) (since July 5, 1988)

Drama|

* Masterpiece (since January 10, 1971)

Music and fine arts|

* American Masters (since June 22, 1986)
* Art:21 (since 2001)
* Austin City Limits (since January 3, 1976)
* Bluegrass Underground (since 2011)
* Craft in America (since 2007)
* Great Performances (episodes) (since November 4, 1972)
* Next at the Kennedy Center (since 2023)

History|

* American Experience (episodes) (since October 4, 1988)
* Antiques Roadshow (since January 9, 1997)
* Finding Your Roots (since March 25, 2012)
* Secrets of the Dead (since May 15, 2000)

News and public affairs|

* Amanpour & Company (since September 10, 2018)
* BBC World News America (since June 3, 2019 from American Public Television)
* Firing Line (episodes) (April 4, 1966 – December 26, 1999; since June 22, 2018)
* Frontline (episodes) (since January 17, 1983)
* PBS NewsHour (since October 20, 1975)
* To the Contrary (since April 3, 1992)
* Washington Week (since February 23, 1967)

Personalities|

* Samantha Brown
* Ken Burns
* Ric Burns
* Michael Gerson
* Amy Holmes
* Bill Moyers
* Hari Sreenivasan
* Judy Woodruff

How-to and special interest|

* MotorWeek (since October 15, 1981)
* This Old House (episodes) (since January 1, 1979)

Science and nature|

* Nature (episodes) (since October 10, 1982)
* Nova (episodes) (since March 3, 1974)

Networks|

* PBS
* PBS Kids
* PBS YOU1
* PBS Digital Studios
* Create
* World
* PBS America (UK)

Major stations|

* Dallas
* KERA-TV
* Houston
* KUHT
* Los Angeles
* KLCS
* KOCE-TV
* KCET
* San Francisco/Watsonville/San Jose
* KQED
* KQET
* KQEH
* Boston
* WGBH-TV
* WGBX-TV
* Chicago
* WTTW
* Miami–Ft. Lauderdale–West Palm Beach
* WPBT
* WXEL-TV
* WLRN-TV
* New York
* WNET
* WLIW
* New Jersey
* NJ PBS
* Philadelphia–Wilmington–Lehigh Valley
* WHYY-TV
* WLVT-TV
* Tampa–St. Petersburg
* WEDU
* WEDQ
* Washington, D.C.
* WETA-TV
* WHUT-TV
* Pittsburgh
* WQED
* Maryland
* MPT

Former|

* America's Ballroom Challenge (February 1, 2006 – May 8, 2015)
* Baking with Julia (1996 – 1998)
* BBC OS (January 1, 2020 – March 30, 2023)
* Bill Moyers Journal (1972 – 2010)
* A Chef's Life (September 7, 2013 – October 22, 2018)
* Charlie Rose (September 30, 1991 – November 17, 2017)
* Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns (July 9 – August 13, 2008)
* The French Chef (February 11, 1963 – January 14, 1973)
* History Detectives (July 14, 2003 – July 22, 2014)
* Hometime (November 1, 1986 – January 30, 2016)
* Live from the Metropolitan Opera (1977 – 2003; replaced with Great Performances at the Met in 2007)
* Mystery! (February 5, 1980 – 2006; absorbed into Masterpiece)
* Need to Know (May 7, 2010 – June 28, 2013)
* Nightly Business Report (January 22, 1979 – December 27, 2019)2
* Nova ScienceNow (January 25, 2005 – November 14, 2012)
* Now on PBS (January 18, 2002 – April 30, 2010)
* Religion & Ethics Newsweekly (October 3, 1997 – February 24, 2017)
* Tavis Smiley (January 2004 – December 13, 2017)
* The Victory Garden (April 16, 1975 – 2015)
* Wall Street Week (November 20, 1970 – June 24, 2005; moved to Bloomberg Television)
* We'll Meet Again with Ann Curry (January 23, 2018 – January 8, 2019)
* The Woodwright's Shop (1979 – 2017)

See also|

* PBS Distribution
* PBS Satellite Service
* PBS original programming
* Members (networks
* stations)
* List of programs broadcast by PBS

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* 2Distributed by American Public Television (APT).

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Defunct English-language broadcast television networks in the United States
(including still-existent networks removed from over-the-air distribution)

Major commercial|

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Minor commercial|

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* Ion Plusi
* Hughes
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* Light TV
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* N1
* NATVi
* NTA Film
* Omni
* Overmyer/United
* Paramount Television Network
* Pax TV
* Plum TV
* qubo
* SFM Holiday
* Star
* TrueReal
* Theater TV
* Tuff TV
* Twist
* UATV
* VTV
* The Works

Public|

* NET
* MHz Worldviewi

Specialty|

* .2
* PBJ
* ResearchChannel

| News|

* ABC News Nowi
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* DoD News
* Local AccuWeather Channel
* NBC Wx+/NBC+
* Newsmax TVci
* TouchVision

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Sports|

* American Sports Network
* Stadiumi
* Sportsmanc
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Home shopping|

* America's Store
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Music|

* Bohemia Visual Musici
* The Box
* MTV2c
* Tr3sc
* Retro Jams
* TheCoolTV
* The Tube

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Digital television in North America

Terrestrial|

| Digital broadcasting|

* ATSC tuners
* Digital subchannels
* Virtual channels
* Distributed transmission system
* Datacasting
* Guide Plus
* National Datacast
* UpdateLogic
* Metropolitan Television Alliance
* Grand Alliance

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Digital switchover|

* All-Channel Receiver Act
* SAFER Act
* Digital channel election
* Set-top boxes
* Digital television adapter
* U.S. Converter Box Coupon Program
* legislation
* Analog passthrough
* DVD recorders
* Digital video recorders

Digital standards|

* ATSC standards
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* ATSC-M/H
* 8VSB
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* PSIP
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* full list
* Standard-definition TV
* 480i
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* 480p
* 576p
* High-definition TV
* 720p
* 1080i
* 1080p
* Ultra high-definition TV
* 2160p
* Serial digital interface
* Smart antennas
* CEA-909

Digital networks|

* Digital multicast television network
* see Template:American broadcast television
* Template:Canadian television networks

National deployment|

* List by country
* Canada
* Mexico
* United States
* HDTV
* transition
* wireless spectrum auction

Cable|

| Digital cable|

* Digital-cable-ready TV
* QAM tuners
* Interactive-digital-cable-ready TV
* OpenCable Application Platform
* Encryption
* Must-carry

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Subscription TV|

* AllVid
* CableCARD
* Downloadable Conditional Access System
* Tru2way

Satellite TV|

* DVB-S
* Dish Network
* GlobeCast World TV
* Free-to-air receiver
* Bell Satellite TV/Telus Satellite TV
* Dish México
* DigiCipher 2
* 4DTV
* Shaw Direct
* Digital Satellite Service/DVB-S2
* DirecTV

IPTV|

* U-verse TV
* Bell Fibe TV
* FibreOP
* Telus Optik TV

Technical issues|

* 14:9 aspect ratio
* Active Format Description
* Broadcast flag
* Channel protection ratios
* HDTV blur
* Hierarchical modulation
* Pirate decryption
* Standards conversion
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