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public television  

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  • Public television in the United States is a multifaceted, noncommercial media enterprise that provides a broad range of informational, cultural, and educational programming and services to the American people through local public television stations. It began as educational television and continues to pioneer the use of new technologies to improve the accessibility and quality of lifelong learning. [Source: Encyclopedia of Distributed Learning; Public Television]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/public_television

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