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Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) is a state network of PBS member television stations and NPR member radio stations serving the U.S. state of Georgia.

It is operated by the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission, which holds the licenses for most of the PBS and NPR member stations licensed in the state (with the exception of PBS station WPBA and radio stations WABE and WCLK in Atlanta, and radio stations WFSL-FM in Thomasville (which relays WFSQ-FM from FSU radio in Tallahassee, Florida) and WTJB-FM in Columbus (which relays Troy University Public Radio from WTSU-FM in Troy, Alabama)).

The broadcast signals of the nine television stations and 19 radio stations cover almost all of the state, as well as parts of Alabama, Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.

In much of the world, funding comes from the government, especially via annual fees charged on receivers.

In the United States, public broadcasters may receive some funding from both federal and state sources, but generally most financial support comes from underwriting by foundations and businesses ranging from small shops to corporations, along with audience contributions via pledge drives.

The great majority are operated as private not-for-profit corporations.

A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay television providers.

Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small number of broadcast networks.

Many early television networks (such as the BBC, NBC or CBC) evolved from earlier radio networks.

Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of audio and video by digitally processed and multiplexed signal, in contrast to the totally analog and channel separated signals used by analog television.

Digital TV can support more than one program in the same channel bandwidth.

It is an innovative service that represents the first significant evolution in television technology since color television in the 1950s.

Several regions of the world are in different stages of adaptation and are implementing different broadcasting standards.

Below are the different widely used digital television broadcasting standards (DTB):

News is information about current events.

Journalists provide news through many different media, based on word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, and also on their own testimony, as witnesses of relevant events.