Editing Public broadcasting (section)

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In the United States, the [[PBS|Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)]] serves as the nation's main public television provider. When it launched in October 1970, PBS assumed many of the functions of its predecessor, [[National Educational Television]] (NET). 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.<ref>{{cite web |date=January 14, 2000 |title=Articles of Incorporation of Public Broadcasting Service |url=http://www.current.org/pbpb/documents/PBSarticles69.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010406090018/http://www.current.org/pbpb/documents/PBSarticles69.html |archive-date=April 6, 2001 |access-date=January 12, 2008 |work=[[Current (newspaper)|Current]] |department=Public Broadcasting PolicyBase}}</ref> PBS would later acquire [[Educational Television Stations]], an organization founded by the [[National Association of Educational Broadcasters]] (NAEB), in 1973.<ref name="JARVIK">{{cite book |author=Laurence Ariel Jarvik |title=PBS, behind the screen |publisher=Forum |year=1997 |isbn=0761506683 |location=[[Rocklin, California]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Public TV Faces Fund Struggles |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SelHAAAAIBAJ&pg=805,469633&dq=hartford+public+broadcasting+television+gunn&hl=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906010404/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SelHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=n_8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=805,469633&dq=hartford+public+broadcasting+television+gunn&hl=en |archive-date=September 6, 2015 |access-date=October 28, 2013 |newspaper=[[Record-Journal|The Morning Record]] |via=[[Google News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=James Day |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dKYZynRiU6YC&q=hartford+n+gunn+jr&pg=PA137 |title=The Vanishing Vision: The Inside Story of Public Television |date=September 16, 1969 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0520086593 |access-date=October 23, 2013 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>