WEDU
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| WEDU | |
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| Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida | |
| Branding | WEDU |
| Slogan | West Central Florida's PBS Station |
| Channels | Analog: 3 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting, Inc. |
| First air date | October 27, 1958 |
| Call letters’ meaning | EDUcation |
| Former affiliations | NET (1958-1970) |
| Transmitter Power | 100 kW (analog) 387 kW (digital) 25 kW (after 2009) |
| Height | 473 m (analog) 453.1 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 21808 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | (analog) (digital) |
| Website | www.wedu.org |
WEDU is a PBS member station, serving the Tampa Bay DMA in Florida. The station first signed on the air on October 17, 1958 and is the most-watched PBS station in Florida, and one of the most-watched PBS stations in the United States. Its transmitter is located in Riverview, Florida.
For many years, it was the fifth most-watched PBS member, but has since been passed by KOCE and KLCS in the Los Angeles area.
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.
[edit] Digital TV
The digital channel of WEDU is multiplexed:
Digital channels
| Channel | Programming |
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| 3.1 | WEDU HD |
| 3.2 | V-me |
| 3.3 | Florida Knowledge Network (Weekdays 6AM to 6PM only) The Florida Channel (all other hours) |
| 3.4 | WEDU World |
[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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