PBS

===Independent networks===
While not operated or controlled by PBS proper, additional public broadcasting networks are available and carried by PBS member stations. The following three are also distributed by PBS via satellite.

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! Channel !! Programming !! Origin
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|| [[Create (TV network)|Create]] || Educational and artistic programming || rowspan="2"|American Public Television
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|| [[World Channel|World]] || News and documentaries
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|| [[First Nations Experience]] || Indigenous programming || [[San Bernardino Community College District]]
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From 2002 to 2011, [[Buffalo, New York]] member station [[WNED-TV]] operated [[ThinkBright|ThinkBright TV]], a service that was carried on several stations in upstate [[New York (state)|New York]]. Several state networks also offer a [[Public affairs (broadcasting)|public affairs]] subchannel network offering full-time coverage of state government events and legislative/judicial proceedings in the same vein as [[C-SPAN]]'s coverage of the federal government. Many PBS stations also carried MHz Worldview from the [[MHz Networks]] until 2020 when MHz Networks announced its discontinuation of the network on March 1, 2020. Since then, many stations has switched to World Channel as well as [[First Nations Experience]].

A separate but related concept is the state network, where a group of stations across a state simulcast a single programming schedule from a central facility, which may include specialty subchannels unique to that broadcaster.