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PBS Public is operational
IsDown pulls data from PBS Public's status page every few minutes and collects user-reported issues.
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This chart displays the number of user-reported issues over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem.
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IsDown has tracked 103 incidents since started monitoring PBS Public status in February 2022. We collect data from 4000+ services, and normalize the data to give you a clear picture of the impact of the outage.
8 days ago · lasted 2 days
This morning we identified a bug in the new MVault merge tool which could cause the incorrect TVault billing tab to be attached in cases where both merged records have a TVault billing tab. Out of an abundance of caution and avoid any errors in ...
about 2 months ago · lasted 10 days
Starting at or around 6:30 AM ET on 3/13/25, interstitials have stopped playing on the PBS KIDS livestream across all platforms. We are currently working to fix the error in the source stream.
2 months ago · lasted 2 days
We are investigating some backend issues with the PBS App on Comcast Xfinity devices regarding the in-app/one-click donations. There are no issues with other functionality and usability of the app. To prevent users from encountering any problems ...
2 months ago · lasted 1 day
The Bento console is currently slow to load for all users, and we are investigating the issue.
3 months ago · lasted 7 days
We are currently investigating intermittent errors affecting pages on PBS.org and Station Video Portals. Please follow this page for further updates.
We've tracked and collected 103 incidents since started monitoring PBS Public status
Rhea
Cannot access via PBS SoCal and haven't been able to for 3 days
Ariel
The screen has the different color bars and said schedule HD05 with the EST and PST times but is not working
Barbara
Tv channels PSPIRIT , PBS 1024 problems. Black screen.
Alexandria
When I click on a program the diagram goes dark and it will not allow me to open program--frustrating.
Bill
Not receiving the channels any longer
Marilla
Videos loading and then stream is looping during playtime.
Lonnie
PBS Kids app not working on 32 inch ROKU ONN tv
Chris
Every stream says video unavailable.
Susan
PBS app on Roku won't open. Checked on three devices & 2 different internet services
Nancy
Sever down last three weeks on Roku. Have rebooted all equipment, have uninstalled and reinstalled, all rokus are under a year old. Roku says it's PBS not them, my 2 1/2 twin grandkids are very sad.
Katie
When trying to watch live tv on PBS kids app on Roku it says server is down. It have been like that for over a week
Richard
We are receiving the video feed from our local PBS station but no sound. What's happening???
Lydia
The app won’t load. The yellow screen with the logo is all that loads. Frustrating as this happens a couple times every week!!
Diane
I cannot get live tv today on PBS
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Number of Incidents
1 issues
Last incident
9 days ago
PBS Public isn't down. You can check PBS Public status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors PBS Public official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 0 outages reported.
PBS Public is currently operational. You can check PBS Public status and incident details on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the latest outages and issues affecting customers.
No, there is no ongoing official outage. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.
Currently there's no report of PBS Public being slow. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.
IsDown monitors the PBS Public official status page every few minutes. We also get reports from users like you. If there are enough reports about an outage, we'll show it on the top of the page.
PBS Public last outage was on April 28, 2025 with the title "MVault Merge Tool Temporarily Disabled"
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IsDown and DownDetector help users determine if a service is having problems. The big difference is that IsDown is a status page aggregator. IsDown monitors a service's official status page to give our customers a more reliable source of information. The integration allows us to provide more details about the outage, like incident title, description, updates, and the parts of the affected service. Additionally, users can create internal status pages and set up notifications for all their third-party services.
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