The National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) created the Educational Television Stations division at the 1963 convention. The new division had the following responsibilities:

• Activation and development of new educational television stations.
• Representation of stations before government and private agencies.
• Compilation of data regarding fund-raising activities.
• Facilitating personnel training and placement programs.
• Holding regional and national conferences
• Establishment of an ETV [educational television] program library service -- formed the Educational Television Stations Program Service in 1965

Educational Television Stations merged with the newly reorganized PBS in 1973.