America’s public television stations are committed to three essential public service missions: education, public safety and civic leadership.
Public television educates people of all ages with lifelong learning programs and services, partners with local public safety officials to help save lives, and provides civic leadership resources to strengthen our democracy by giving our citizens the grounding they need in the history, culture and civic affairs of their communities, their states and their country. As the last locally-controlled media in America, reaching nearly 99 percent of the American people, public television stations are uniquely positioned to provide these services — not only on television but in the classroom, online, as part of the emergency response network and in the community.