WEDU
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| Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida | |
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| Branding | WEDU |
| Slogan | West Central Florida's PBS Station |
| Channels | Digital: 13 (VHF) Virtual: 3 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | (see table in article) |
| Affiliations | PBS (since 1970) |
| Owner | Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting, Inc. |
| First air date | October 17, 1958 |
| Call letters' meaning | EDUcation |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 3 (1958-2009) Digital: 54 |
| Former affiliations | NET (1958–1970) |
| Transmitter power | 25 kW (VHF digital) |
| Height | 470.9 m |
| Facility ID | 21808 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 27°50′51.5″N 82°15′49.4″W / 27.847639°N 82.263722°W |
| Website | www.wedu.org |
WEDU is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member Public television station, serving the Tampa Bay DMA in Florida. The station first signed on the air on October 17, 1958. Its transmitter is located in Riverview, Florida.
WEDU is one of two PBS stations in the Tampa Bay market (the other being WUSF), and the only one to carry PBS's main schedule.
For many years, WEDU has been one of the highest-rated stations in the PBS system. At one point, it was the third most-watched PBS station in the country.[1]
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[edit] Personalities
- Jack Perkins, A Gulf Coast Journal
[edit] Digital TV
The digital channel of WEDU is multiplexed:
Digital channels
| Channel | Name | Programming |
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| 3.1 | WEDU HD | Main WEDU programming / PBS |
| 3.2 | V-me | |
| 3.3 | FKN_FLC | The Florida Channel |
| 3.4 | WEDU+ | PBS World |
WEDU ceased analogue broadcasts on February 17, 2009.[2]
WEDU moved its digital broadcasts to channel 13 on June 12, 2009, after WTVT vacated the channel at the end of digital television transition [3] using PSIP to display WEDU's virtual channel as 3.
[edit] References
- ^ WEDU history section from 2002 archive of Website
- ^ Congress delays digital TV switch, but WEDU will switch this month, Eric Deggans, St. Petersburg Times, February 5, 2009
- ^ WEDU FCC DTV status report
[edit] External links
- WEDU official website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WEDU
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WEDU-TV
- mcsittel.com -- includes screengrabs of WEDU from the mid-1980s, picked up in Kingsport, Tennessee
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