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Is PBS Public down?

The vendor's status page reports an issue. Our own checks and user reports have not confirmed a problem. Official status: Some components degraded (no active incident posted)

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What to try while PBS Public is having problems

Estimated fix: Not enough PBS Public history yet; similar Entertainment outages lasted 16 min (median, typically 8 min–24 min; 31 outages).

  • Downloaded content usually plays offline; otherwise try another device or the website.

Official PBS Public status page

Live diagnosis

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Official · ReportsMinor incident · Near baseline
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Live outage map

No reports in the last 24 hours.

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Recent reports

Each row is a time, a coarse place, and a problem type from a new report. Optional notes stay private. Places with fewer than 3 reports in the last 8 days are shown without a location.

No public reports yet.

User reports

0

Near baseline. 0 in the last hour. Typical hour is about 0.

Our checks

Reaching it

Last checked 2 hr ago. Last stored result reached it in 1287 ms.

Official status

Minor incident

Some components degraded (no active incident posted) Official status page

Reports and checks

Numbers behind the chart
Time (UTC)ReportsBaselineLatencyFailed checks
Mon 1300.0251 ms0
Mon 1500.0282 ms0
Mon 1700.0266 ms0
Mon 1900.0281 ms0
Mon 2100.0288 ms0
Mon 2300.0295 ms0
Tue 0100.0319 ms0
Tue 0300.0209 ms0
Tue 0600.0190 ms0
Tue 0800.0262 ms0
Tue 1000.0483 ms0
Tue 1200.0254 ms0
Tue 1400.0183 ms0
Tue 1600.0326 ms0
Tue 1900.0222 ms0
Tue 2100.0261 ms0
Tue 2300.0203 ms0
Wed 0100.0241 ms0
Wed 0400.0275 ms0
Wed 0600.0193 ms0
Wed 0800.0174 ms0
Wed 1000.0222 ms0
Wed 1300.0202 ms0
Wed 1500.0185 ms0
Wed 1700.0190 ms0
Wed 1900.0286 ms0
Wed 2100.0229 ms0
Wed 2300.0262 ms0
Thu 0200.0247 ms0
Thu 0400.0214 ms0
Thu 0600.0240 ms0
Thu 0800.0268 ms0
Thu 1000.0288 ms0
Thu 1200.0256 ms0
Thu 1400.0208 ms0
Thu 1600.0228 ms0
Thu 1800.0301 ms0
Thu 2000.0198 ms0
Thu 2200.0644 ms0
Fri 0000.0307 ms0
Fri 0200.0604 ms0
Fri 0400.0199 ms0
Fri 0600.0311 ms0
Fri 0800.0315 ms0
Fri 1100.0253 ms0
Fri 1300.0154 ms0
Fri 1500.0247 ms0
Fri 1700.01287 ms0

Reliability

Score 100/100 · grade A

100%Uptime · 30 days
100%Uptime · 90 days
0 / 0Outages · 30 / 90 days
—Average outage

100% uptime · No user reports in the last 24h

90 days ago → today. Uptime is from our own HTTP checks; outages are incidents that lasted long enough to list. We have 8 days of data so far, so the 90-day numbers fill in over time.

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Past outages

No outages on record for PBS Public yet. Outages of 10 minutes or more get their own page here.

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About PBS Public

PBS Public, at pbs.org, is one of the Entertainment services we monitor. Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS dramas, find in-depth news analysis and explore documentaries on history, science, art and more!

PBS Public publishes an official status page at status.pbs.org; when we can read it, its incident level is folded into the status shown here.

Common problems for entertainment services: streams buffering or not starting, playback errors, and app sign-in problems.

Measured uptime from our checks: 100% over 8 days of checks. No public incidents logged since monitoring began 8 days ago.

Response time over the last 24 hours: 411 ms average, 154–1287 ms range across 11 successful checks.

Questions

Is PBS Public down right now?

The vendor's status page reports an issue. Our own checks and user reports have not confirmed a problem. Official status: Some components degraded (no active incident posted)

When was PBS Public last down?

We have not recorded a public PBS Public incident since monitoring began 8 days ago.

What is PBS Public's uptime?

From our own checks: 100% over 8 days of checks.

How fast does PBS Public respond?

411 ms on average over the last 24 hours (154–1287 ms).

Does PBS Public have an official status page?

Yes, at https://status.pbs.org.

PBS Public not working for me but the status is fine. What now?

It is usually local: try another browser or the app, switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data, and clear the cache. For entertainment services, watch for streams buffering or not starting, playback errors, and app sign-in problems. If many people report PBS Public here at once, the problem is on PBS Public's side.

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