WEDU

WEDU

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Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida United States
City of license	Tampa, Florida
Branding	WEDU
Slogan	West Central Florida's PBS Station
Channels	Digital: 13 (VHF) Virtual: 3 (PSIP)
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting, Inc.
First air date	October 17, 1958 (1958-10-17)
Call letters' meaning	EDUcation
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 3 (VHF, 1958–2009) Digital: 54 (UHF, –2009)
Former affiliations	NET (1958–1970)
Transmitter power	25 kW
Height	470.9 m
Facility ID	21808
Transmitter coordinates
Licensing authority	FCC
Public license information:	Profile CDBS
Website	www.wedu.org

WEDU, virtual channel 3 (VHF digital channel 13), is a PBS member television station located in Tampa, Florida, United States and serves the Tampa Bay Area including St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Sarasota and Lakeland. The station is owned by Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting. WEDU's studio facilities are located on North Boulevard in Tampa, and its transmitter is located in Riverview. WEDU is one of two PBS stations in the Tampa Bay market. It carries the main PBS schedule, while WUSF-TV, channel 16, carries alternate PBS programming.

History

The station first signed on the air on October 17, 1958. 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 member station in the country.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming
3.1	1080i	16:9	WEDU PBS HD	PBS
3.2	480i	4:3	V-me	V-me
3.3			World	World (7 a.m.-7 p.m.) The Florida Channel (7 p.m.-7 a.m.)
3.4			WEDU+	PBS

Analog-to-digital conversion

WEDU shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, on February 17, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television (which Congress had moved the previous month to June 12). The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 54. That channel was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcast service. So WEDU relocated to VHF channel 13 on June 12, 2009. Channel 13 originally was the analog channel for Fox owned-and-operated station WTVT but that station vacated Channel 13 on the rescheduled date of the digital television transition, using PSIP to display WEDU's virtual channel as 3 on digital television receivers.

On-air staff

Current on-air staff

• Rob Lorei - host of Florida This Week
• Geoff Simon - host of Suncoast Business Forum
• Cathy Unruh - host of Up Close

External links

• WEDU official website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WEDU
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WEDU-TV

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