WBEC-TV

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WBEC-TV
Boca Raton, Florida
Branding Broward Education Communications Network
Channels Analog: 63 (UHF)

Digital: 40 (UHF)
Affiliations independent
Owner Broward County Public Schools
(The School Board of Broward County, Florida)
First air date mid-1970s (cable)
1999 (terrestrial)
Call letters’ meaning Broward
Education
Communications
Former callsigns WPPB-TV (1986-2008)
Transmitter Power 5000 kW (analog)
565 kW (digital)
Height 304.8 m (analog)
311 m (digital)
Facility ID 51349
Transmitter Coordinates 25°59′10.0″N, 80°11′36.3″W (analog)
25°59′35.3″N, 80°10′26.0″W (digital)
Website www.becon.tv

WBEC-TV channel 63 is an educational television station owned by the Broward County Public Schools. The station is licensed in Boca Raton, Florida (within the West Palm Beach television market), with studios and transmitter in Davie (within the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market).

Originally started as a cable channel in the mid-1970s, known then as Instructional Television of Broward County, Florida (ITV); some of the in-school programming produced by ITV were also distributed to PBS and educational stations throughout Florida, especially as a benefit to those without cable. In order to have unrestricted use of the Instructional Television Center, in 1984, the District reimbursed the funds it had received from the Florida State Department of Education to establish the center. The center placed emphasis on the production and broadcast of instructional programming, but it also produced programs for the community that were carried by cable companies that provided broadcast time to the District. The station took the call letters WPPB-TV.

In 1998 the channel would later be renamed Broward Education Communications Network (BECON), and would make its move to terrestrial television after its purchase of the WPPB-TV license. The station's license dates back to June 10, 1986, but the station itself would not start broadcasting until 1999. On March 15, 2008, the station changed its call letters to WBEC-TV, reflecting its branding, Broward Education Communications.

Broward County District Schools also owns and operates WKPX-FM 88.5MHz, a student-run radio station that generally plays alternative music, plus school board meetings.

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Broadcast television in the South Florida (Miami / Fort Lauderdale / Key West) market (Nielsen DMA #16)
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Other Television Stations in the state of Florida

Miami - Fort Lauderdale: WPXM 35 (ION, Miami) - WGAY-LP 41 (Ind., Key West) - WHDT-LP 44 (Ind., Miami) - WBEC 63 (Educational, Fort Lauderdale)
Tampa - St. Petersburg: WPDS-LP 14 (Educational, Largo) - WARP-CA 20 (MTV2, Tampa) - WMOR 32 (Ind. / 4Kids TV, Lakeland) - WSPF-CA 35 (St. Petersburg City Access, St. Petersburg) - WZRA-CA 48 (Ethnic / America One / NTV / CTV Canada, Oldsmar) - WXPX 66 (ION, Bradenton)
Jacksonville: WJXT 4 (Ind., Jacksonville) - WJXE-LP 15 (Ind., Jacksonville) - WQXT-CA 22 (America One, St. Augustine) - WBXJ-CA 43 (MTV2, Jacksonville) - WPXJ-LP 54 (ION, Jacksonville)
Tallahassee - Thomasville: WBXT-CA 43 (MTV2, Tallahassee)
Orlando - Daytona Beach - Melbourne: WRDQ 27 (Ind., Orlando) - WZXZ-CA 36 (Unknown, Orlando) - WOPX 56 (ION, Melbourne)
West Palm Beach - Fort Pierce: WHDT 59 (DW/Ind., Stuart) - WBEC 63 (Educational, Boca Raton) - WPXP 67 (ION, Lake Worth)
Panama City: WPCT 46 (Tourist, Panama City Beach) - WBIF 51 (RTN, Marianna)
Pensacola / Mobile: WRBD-LP 8 (Ind./A1, Pensacola) - WBQP-CA 12 (A1/S@H/MTV2, Pensacola) - WJTC 44 (Ind., Pensacola) - WFBD 48 (A1, Destin) - WPAN 53 (S@H/JTV, Fort Walton Beach) - WAWD 58 (Tourist, Fort Walton Beach)
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