PBS (disambiguation)

PBS is short for Public Broadcasting Service, an American nonprofit television service.

PBS (and other capitalizations) may also refer to:

Networks

• 3PBS (106.7FM), an Australian community (Melbourne) radio station
• Pacific Broadcasting Systems, a Filipino radio network
• Thai Public Broadcasting Service, Thai television station
• Palestine Broadcasting Service (1936–1948), a defunct radio station located in the British Mandate for Palestine
• People's Broadcasting Service, Inc. a Filipino radio network, managed by Bombo Radyo Philippines
• Philippine Broadcasting Service, a Filipino government-owned radio network
• Progressive Broadcasting System (early 1950s), a defunct American radio network
• Public Broadcasting Services, a Maltese public broadcasting company

Computing

• Pasteboard server, a Cocoa service dæmon in the Mac OS X operating system
• PBS A/S, a Danish company specializing in electronic payment systems
• Preferential Bidding System, a computer system for employee work-duty bidding
• Portable Batch System, a computer software that performs job scheduling

Entertainment

• Pearls Before Swine (comic strip), an American comic strip
• Positive Black Soul, a Senegalese hip-hop group

Medicine

• Painful bladder syndrome, or interstitial cystitis, a chronic, severely debilitating disease of the urinary bladder
• Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, a program of the Australian Government that provides subsidised prescription drugs to the country's residents.

Science

• pBluescript, a phagemid used in cloning
• Lead(II) sulfide (PbS), an inorganic compound
• Sodium perborate (NaBO3), a white, odorless, water-soluble chemical compound
• Phosphate buffered saline, a buffer solution commonly used in biological research
• Positive behavior support, a substantiated form of applied behavior analysis
• Primer binding site, a region of a nucleotide sequence
• Polarization beam splitter, see Beam-splitting polarizers
• Polybutylene succinate, a synthetic polyester

Other uses

• Pakistan Bureau of Statistics
• Peanut butter sandwich
• Parti Bersatu Sabah, a Malaysian political party
• Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Playboys gang, a violent, street gang in West and East Los Angeles, California
• Points-based immigration system (United Kingdom), an immigration regulation scheme
• Privatbanen Sønderjylland, a defunct Danish railway operating company
• Product breakdown structure, a project-management tool
• Swiss Guide and Scout Movement (German: Pfadibewegung Schweiz)
• Public Buildings Service, one of the two divisions of the United States General Services Administration
• XPBS-1 patrol bomber, a United States Navy patrol bomber; see Sikorsky VS-44
• Prayer Book Society of the USA
• Prayer Book Society of Canada
• Pacific Bulb Society
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet