18 Facts About Public broadcasting

Public broadcasting involves radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.

Historically, public broadcasting was once the dominant or only form of broadcasting in many countries.

Commercial broadcasting now exists in most of these countries; the number of countries with only public broadcasting declined substantially during the latter part of the 20th century.

Primary mission of public broadcasting is that of public service, speaking to and engaging as a citizen.

Public broadcasting utilizes AM and FM radio, television, and internet technologies.

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Public broadcasting broadcasters do not rely on advertising to the same degree as commercial broadcasters, or at all; this allows public broadcasters to transmit programmes that are not commercially viable to the mass market, such as public affairs shows, radio and television documentaries, and educational programmes.

One of the principles of public broadcasting is to provide coverage of interests for which there are missing or small markets.

On 1 March 1926 began the operation as the first Central American Public broadcasting network called "Radio Nacional de El Salvador" with a frequency of 96.

Since the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Pacifica has sometimes received CPB support.

NET was shut down by the Ford Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting after the network refused to stop airing documentaries on varying social issues that had alienated many of the network's affiliates.

South Korea has another public broadcasting channel called Educational Broadcasting System, or EBS.

Israeli Defense Forces owns its own Public broadcasting network known as IDF Waves which includes 2 radio stations:.

Qatar's public service broadcasting includes Qatar Media Corporation which predominantly focuses on local affairs, and Al Jazeera, an international public broadcasting private foundation which appeals to a pan-Arab audience in its Standard Arabic broadcasting and to miscellaneous scope of audiences in some other languages, including the pan-global English channel.

Originally named INR—Institut national belge de radiodiffusion —the state-owned Public broadcasting organization was established by law on 18 June 1930.

Estonian Public Broadcasting organises the public radio and television stations of Estonia.

Italian national Public broadcasting company is RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana, founded as URI in 1924.

Public broadcasting broadcasters include Telewizja Polska television and Polskie Radio, however TVP in recent years has been considered to be state media by various press freedom organisations due its strong bias in favour of the ruling party, with Reporters Without Borders calling it a government mouthpiece.

In Spain, being a highly decentralized country, two public broadcasting systems coexist: a national state-owned broadcasting corporation, Radiotelevision Espanola, that can be tuned all around Spain, and many autonomic broadcasting corporations, owned by their respective autonomous community, which only broadcast within its own territory.