TBS

The acronym TBS may refer to:

In broadcasting:

• Tokyo Broadcasting System, a TV station in Tokyo, Japan
• TBS Radio & Communications, the flagship radio station of the Japan Radio Network (JRN)
• TBS (TV channel), a US cable television channel
• Turner Broadcasting System, the media company that owns CNN, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, truTV, & Turner Classic Movies networks
• Taiwan Broadcasting System, public broadcasting group that holds 8 television channels in Taiwan
• WPCH-TV (formerly WTBS), official name of Peachtree TV, a television station in Atlanta, Georgia

In music:

• Taking Back Sunday, a rock / alternative band
• The Beautiful South, UK band 1989-2007
• The Breathing Shadow
• The Black Sessions

In education:

• Tau Beta Sigma, an honorary band sorority
• The Basic School, attended by all newly commissioned United States Marine Corps officers
• Therapeutic Boarding School, a boarding school based on the therapeutic community model
• Times Business School, located in India
• Toulouse Business School, at Toulouse (France)
• Trondheim Business School, a division of Sør-Trøndelag University College in Trondheim, Norway

In Companies

• TBS GB, European Healthcare services company

The abbreviation TBS may also refer to:

• Paul Wight, professional wrestler nicknamed "The Big Show"
• Tablespoon
• Tbilisi International Airport, an airport in Georgia (IATA code TBS)
• The Bethesda System, system for reporting cervical cytologic diagnoses
• The Basic School of the United States Marine Corps.
• The Buried Sea, the 13th expansion for the role-playing game EverQuest
• Total Bandwidth Server, an EDF-based server algorithm for guaranteeing response times for aperiodic tasks in real-time systems
• Tris-Buffered Saline
• Trinitarian Bible Society
• Temple Beth Sholom (Cherry Hill, New Jersey)
• Temple Beth Sholom (Miami Beach, Florida)
• True Buddha School, a heterodox-modern Tantric sect
• Turn-Based Strategy, a style of game where players take turns playing, usually used in reference to video games
• Terbeschikkingstelling ("To be Held in the Interest of the State"), a punishment in the Netherlands of being held in a psychiatric hospital for crimes which are committed under psychologically abnormal circumstances
• Silyl ether, TBS is the tert-butyldimethylsilyl group
• Talk Between Ships, a U.S. Navy term for low-powered voice radio, used during World War 2
• To Be Specified, used in technical specifications for areas that are as yet undefined