PBS (disambiguation)

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) is a nonprofit television service in the United States.

PBS (and other capitalizations) may also refer to:

Computing

• PBS A/S (Pengeinstitutternes BetalingsSystemer), a Danish company specializing in electronic payment systems
• Portable Batch System, a computer software that performs job scheduling
• Preferential Bidding System, a computer system for employee work-duty bidding

Entertainment

• Pearls Before Swine (comics), an American comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis
• Positive Black Soul, a Senegalese hip-hop group

Medicine

• Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Australia, providing subsidised prescription drugs

Networks

• PBS 106.7FM, an Australian community radio station in Melbourne
• Pacific Broadcasting Systems, a Filipino radio network
• 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
• Thai Public Broadcasting Service, Thai television station

Science

• Lead(II) sulfide (PbS), an inorganic compound
• pBluescript, a phagemid used in cloning
• Phosphate-buffered saline, a buffer solution commonly used in biological research
• Polybutylene succinate, a synthetic polyester
• Positive behavior support, a substantiated form of applied behavior analysis
• Primer binding site, a region of a nucleotide sequence
• Sodium perborate (NaH₂BO₄), a white, odorless, water-soluble chemical compound

Other uses

• Pacific Bulb Society
• Pakistan Bureau of Statistics
• Parti Bersatu Sabah, a Malaysian political party
• PBS13, Playboys gang, a violent street gang in Los Angeles, California, US
• Prayer Book Society (England), promoting the Book of Common Prayer in England
• Prayer Book Society of Canada, promoting the Book of Common Prayer in Canada
• Prayer Book Society of the USA, promoting the Book of Common Prayer in the USA, sometimes PBS USA
• Privatbanen Sønderjylland, a defunct Danish railway operating company
• Product breakdown structure, a project-management tool
• Public Buildings Service, one of the two divisions of the United States General Services Administration
• Swiss Guide and Scout Movement (German: Pfadibewegung Schweiz)