Create is a digital television

Digital terrestrial television

Digital terrestrial television is the technological evolution of broadcast television and advance from analog television, which broadcasts land-based signals...

 public television network in the United States

United States

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. The network was created after the closure of PBS YOU

PBS YOU

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 in 2006. Create is a public television

Public broadcasting

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 network, and runs mainly how-to

How-to

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, DIY

Do it yourself

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, and other non-commercial educational

Non-commercial educational

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 television shows from the libraries of Public Broadcasting Service

Public Broadcasting Service

The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....

 (PBS) and American Public Television

American Public Television

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 (APT).

The non-profit Public broadcasting

Public broadcasting

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 service airs its television program

Television program

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s through PBS affiliate

Affiliate

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 member stations' and digital subchannel

Digital subchannel

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s nationwide. NETA also provides services and programming to this network.

Many of PBS' charter affiliates are also its major providers of programming, such as WGBH

WGBH-TV

WGBH-TV, channel 2, is a non-commercial educational public television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WGBH-TV is a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service , and produces more than two-thirds of PBS's national prime time television programming...

 Boston

Boston

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, and WLIW

WLIW

WLIW, channel 21, is a non-commercial educational public television station licensed to Garden City, New York; which serves as a secondary Public Broadcasting Service member station for the New York City television market...

 and WNET

WNET

WNET, channel 13 is a non-commercial educational public television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey. With its signal covering the New York metropolitan area, WNET is a primary station of the Public Broadcasting Service and a primary provider of PBS programming...

 in New York City

New York City

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.

Saturdays the network has marathons based on themes, food related holidays or of a particular program.