PBS
American public television network
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| March 24 2025 | Planned opening of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol, which will house PBS Appalachia Virginia's studio. |
| September 10 2024 | PBS America was made available in HD on Virgin Media. |
| August 31 2024 | PBS Kids channel in Sub-Saharan Africa was discontinued after five years of operation. |
| June 10 2024 | PBS News Hour introduced a new logo, studio, and rebranded the program's name from 'NewsHour' to 'News Hour'. |
| April 23 2024 | The 'PBS Retro' channel was added to Roku's live TV channel lineup in the United States, featuring PBS Kids shows from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. |
| April 12 2024 | Robert MacNeil passes away |
| June 2023 | Announced a partnership with Hard Rock Cafe to construct a glass-enclosed studio at the upcoming Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol. |
| June 10 2023 | PBS Appalachia Virginia officially began broadcasting, serving southwestern Virginia from studios at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol in Bristol, Virginia. The station was established to provide public television coverage in an area previously lacking adequate broadcasting services. |
| January 2023 | Festival announced in January 2023. |
| January 2 2023 | Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett begin anchoring the one-hour weekday editions of PBS NewsHour. |
| December 31 2022 | John Yang becomes the anchor for the weekend editions of PBS NewsHour. |
| December 30 2022 | Judy Woodruff made her final broadcast as anchor. |
| December 8 2022 | PBS NewsHour announced John Yang would become weekend anchor, starting December 31. |
| November 17 2022 | Michael Gerson passes away |
| September 2022 | Blue Ridge PBS announced the formation of a new PBS member station for the Appalachian region, initially called PBS Appalachia. |
| July 11 2022 | Wins People's Choice Webby award for best festival/conference. Runs from July 11 to July 22 with films in five categories. Holds inaugural screening at National Harbor on July 15. Offers only a Juried Prize. |
| June 30 2022 | PBS America's +1 channel on Freeview was shut down due to the closure of the COM7 multiplex. |
| June 16 2022 | Laura Barrón-López joined PBS News Hour as White House correspondent. |
| April 2022 | WNET transfers all of its PBS NewsHour involvement to WETA, consolidating production. |
| April 2 2022 | Geoff Bennett became anchor of weekend broadcast |
| April 2 2022 | WETA assumed production of weekend editions, which were retitled PBS News Weekend and began originating from Washington studios. |
| March 27 2022 | Hari Sreenivasan stepped down as special correspondent and former substitute anchor. |
| January 7 2022 | Yamiche Alcindor leaves for NBC News |
| January 3 2022 | Geoff Bennett joined PBS News Hour as chief Washington correspondent |
| 2021 | PBS received 14 News & Documentary Emmy Award nominations, more than any other organization, highlighting the network's significant achievement in television programming. |
| 2021 | PBS continues to broadcast Peanuts specials under sublicense from Apple. |
| 2021 | Tenth anniversary festival introduces VR viewing across platforms like Daydream, Oculus/Meta Quest, and PlayStation VR. Films categorized into six topics: culture, family, race, humanity, identity, and society. Only offers a Juried Prize. |
| 2021 | The festival eliminated online voting and popularity awards, introducing a new jury prize selected by a panel of filmmakers, producers, and PBS executives. |
| August 30 2021 | PBS NewsHour aired its final 'Honor Roll' segment following the end of the War in Afghanistan. |
| July 1 2021 | PBS Julia Child channel was added to Pluto TV in the United States. |
| January 2021 | Michael Beller, PBS's chief attorney, resigned after being recorded suggesting re-education camps for children of Trump supporters. |
| January 8 2021 | Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post joined PBS News Hour as a political analyst for Friday segments. |
| 2020 | PBS serves as the over-the-air home to select Peanuts specials under sublicense from Apple. |
| December 18 2020 | Mark Shields ends his tenure as a syndicated columnist |
| September 2020 | Michael Hill joined PBS News Hour as a substitute weekend anchor. |
| September 3 2020 | PBS began offering a free livestream of member stations via its website, smart TVs, and mobile apps. |
| July 13 2020 | Renamed from PBS Online Film Festival to PBS Short Film Festival. Runs from July 13 to July 24, maintaining Juried Prize and Most Popular award. |
| March 1 2020 | MHz Networks announced the discontinuation of MHz Worldview, leading many PBS stations to switch to World Channel and First Nations Experience. |
| January 23 2020 | Jim Lehrer passes away |
| 2019 | A 24-hour +1 channel launched on Freeview channel 93. |
| 2019 | KCET returned to the PBS network after its previous departure in 2011. |
| December 2019 | Nightly Business Report ceased production, which had previously been a lead-in program on many PBS member stations. |
| December 2019 | The station renamed itself to Southern Oregon PBS as part of a national PBS stations initiative to clarify their community roles. |
| November 4 2019 | PBS unveiled a revamped brand identity by Lippincott for its 50th anniversary, including a tweaked Geismar logo, a new custom sans-serif typeface called PBS Sans, and adopting electric blue and white as corporate colors. |
| October 14 2019 | PBS NewsHour launched 'PBS NewsHour West' bureau at Arizona State University, anchored by Stephanie Sy. |
| July 29 2019 | PBS announced that YouTube TV would begin carrying PBS programming and member stations in the fall of 2019. |
| July 15 2019 | Festival runs from July 15 to 26, beginning with a screening event at the Howard Theater. Jury includes Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday. Features film 'Balloon Girl' by Shabnam Rezaei. |
| May 22 2019 | PBS Distribution partnered with MultiChoice to launch PBS Kids on DStv and GOtv platforms across Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| 2018 | 'The Plastic Problem' documentary aired and subsequently won a Peabody Award in 2019. |
| 2018 | SOPTV transitioned its digital broadcast from channel 42 to channel 34 due to a federally-mandated television repack. |
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