Urban Hard Talk is produced as a non-profit talk show on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor. It is a nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educational television programming to public stations in the United States, distributing the series American Experience, Antiques Roadshow, Arthur, Barney & Friends, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Downtown Abbey, Finding Your Roots, Frontline, Masterpiece Theater, the PBS NewsHour and Sesame Street to name a few of its programming.