WSPF-CA

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WSPF-CA
St. Petersburg, Florida
Slogan Your Government in the Sun Television Station
Channels Analog: 35 (UHF)
Affiliations Independent (St. Petersburg city public access)
Owner City of St. Petersubrg
Call letters’ meaning W Saint Petersburg Florida
Former affiliations Channel America
Transmitter Power 28 kW
Facility ID 11559
Website http://www.stpete.org/wspf.htm

WSPF-CA channel 35, is St. Petersburg, Florida's city government channel, broadcasting City Council meetings and other public service programming for St. Petersburg residents, including the standard 3 hours weekly of children's E/I educational programming mandated by the FCC.

St. Petersburg's city channel was first established in January 1990 as a cable only affair, on cable 15 (since moved to digital channel 615 in December 2007). Prior to then, the city presented some programs as part of Paragon Cable's Local Origination channel.

Channel 35 originally had its start in the early-1990s as W35AJ, which presented general entertainment programming from the Channel America network (which owned the station). Unfortunately, the station was on only intermittently, and would be off the air for weeks at a time. Ch.35 was already dark for a couple of years when St. Petersburg acquired the station in February 1995. In December 1999, the calls were changed to WSPF-CA.

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Broadcast television in the Tampa / St. Petersburg / Sarasota market  (Nielsen DMA #13)
Local stations

WEDU 3 (PBS) · WFLA 8 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) · WTSP 10 (CBS) · WTVT 13 (Fox) · WPDS-LP 14 (Edu.) · W15CM 15 (AS) · WUSF 16 (PBS) · WSVT-CA 18 (DS) · WARP-CA 20 (MTV2) · WCLF 22 (CTN) · WXAX-LP 26 (AZA) · WFTS 28 (ABC, AccuWX TV on DT2) · WTAM-LP 30 (Multimedios) · WMOR 32 (Ind) · W33CC 33 (HSN) · WSPF-CA 35 (St. Pete city access) · W36CO (TBN) WTTA 38 (MNTV) · W43CE 43 (unknown) · WTOG 44 (The CW) · WVEA-LP 46 (HSN) · WZRA-CA 48 (Ethnic/A1/NTV/CTV/DW) · WRMD-CA 49 (TEL) · WFTT 50 (TFU) · W56EB 56 (TBN) · WVEA 62 (UNI, LATV on DT2) · WXPX 66 (ION)
Stations in
outlying areas

WLWA-LP 14 (Ind/Rel) · WHRT-CA 17 (Ind) · WWSB 40 (ABC) · WYKE-LP 47 (FN) · W48CN 48 (TBN) · W60CE 60 (TBN)
Local cable
channels
Significantly Viewed
Out-of-Market
Stations

Reception may vary by geographical location
 Fort Myers: WINK 11 (CBS) · WFTX 36 (Fox)
Orlando: WKMG 6 (CBS) · WFTV 9 (ABC) · WOFL 35 (Fox)
Gainesville: WUFT 5 (PBS)
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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)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, NBC, PBS, Religious, and Spanish stations in Florida