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Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) is the public radio and television network in the U.S. state of Georgia. It operates all of the PBS and NPR stations in Georgia, except WPBA-TV, WABE-FM and WCLK-FM in Atlanta, WFSL-FM in Thomasville (which relays WFSQ-FM from Tallahassee, Florida), and WTJB-FM in Columbus (which relays WTSU from Troy, Alabama).

GPB began in 1960 when the University of Georgia began WGTV, Georgia's second public television station (after WETV, now WPBA). From 1960 to 1964, in a separate initiative, the state Board of Education started up eight noncommercial educational stations across the state, aimed at in-school instruction. In 1965, the university and the board merged their efforts as Georgia Educational Television (GETV). It became Georgia Public Television (GPTV) in 1982, a year after the state legislature transferred authority for the stations to the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission, the oversight board for GPB.

In 1984, the Commission entered public radio for the first time, starting stations in Macon and Columbus. These formed the nuclei of Peach State Public Radio, renamed Georgia Public Radio in 2001. During the 1980s and 1990s, stations that had been operated by other educational institutions and community groups became affiliated with the network.

On New Year's Day 2004, the two networks officially became known as Georgia Public Broadcasting, which had been the official corporate name since 1995. The name now serves as an umbrella title for all GPB operations. Its headquarters and primary production facility is on Fourteenth Street in midtown Atlanta, just west of the Downtown Connector.

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