WSRE is the Public Broadcasting Service

Public Broadcasting Service

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 (PBS) member Public television station for the Pensacola

Pensacola, Florida

Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle and the county seat of Escambia County, Florida, United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 56,255 and as of 2009, the estimated population was 53,752...

, Florida

Florida

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 viewing area. The station has been broadcasting since 1967.

The station has recently gone under very significant growth, with the dedication of the new Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio, and numerous equipment and technical upgrades.

The station's production and development facilities are located at the Kugelman Center for Telecommunications on Pensacola Junior College's main campus. Its transmitter is located near Robertsdale, Alabama

Robertsdale, Alabama

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.

Production Facilities

WSRE is home to three fully equipped television studios. The largest being WSRE's Studio A, otherwise known as the Jean and Paul Amos Performance Studio. Studio A is an 18000 sq ft (1,672.3 m²) fully featured television soundstage offering 500 seats of stadium seating, which is retractable to allow for more soundstage space. Studio B also offers all of the technical capability of Studio A, with more moderate floor space designed for live or pre-recorded programming without a live audience. Most of the station's local programming is produced in Studio B. Studio C is a much smaller studio and is almost exclusively used for television programs and segments designed for satellite uplinks. MSNBC

MSNBC

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's Scarborough Country

Scarborough Country

Scarborough Country was an opinion/analysis show broadcast on MSNBC Monday - Thursday at 9 P.M. ET. It was hosted by former congressman Joe Scarborough....

is frequently produced in Studio C when Joe Scarborough

Joe Scarborough

Charles Joseph "Joe" Scarborough is an American cable news and talk radio host, lawyer, author, and former politician. He is currently the host of Morning Joe on MSNBC, and previously hosted Scarborough Country on the same channel...

 is in Pensacola.

Digital programming

This channel is multiplexed:
Digital Channels>

Channel	Programming
23.1	Main WSRE programming
23.2	WSRE World (PBS World PBS World PBS World is a 24-hour United States over-the-air digital subchannel showing public TV non-fiction, science, nature, news, public affairs and documentaries... )
23.3	WSRE Plus: The Florida Channel The Florida Channel The Florida Channel is a government-access television network operated by Florida State University's WFSU-TV and the Florida State Legislature. The channel is currently carried by 46 cable TV systems throughout the State of Florida either on a part-time or full-time basis as well as through nine...  (5AM to 5PM) Create Create (TV channel) Create is a digital television public television network in the United States. The network was created after the closure of PBS YOU in 2006. Create is a public television network, and runs mainly how-to, DIY, and other non-commercial educational television shows from the libraries of Public...  (5PM to 5AM)
23.4	V-me V-me V-me is a public television service in the United States, broadcasting only in Spanish. The 24-hour digital broadcast service was launched on March 5, 2007, and is currently available in over 75% of all U.S...

Local Programming

The station produces many local and regional programs, including:

• Open Forum - a discussion/call-in show
• Connecting the Community - a weekly program designed to keep members of the community aware of local community happenings, also a call-in show
• Garden Magic - A call-in gardening tips and information program hosted by Dr. Bill Bennett
• Food for Thought - features speeches by experts educated in an array of fields who are from or are visiting the Pensacola area
• Aware - a local community feature show, aiming to keeping viewers best interests in mind by keeping viewers up to date on issues that may directly affect them and their families
• Rally - A televised political debate program that airs days before important local elections.
• PJC Today - News about what's happening around Pensacola Junior College.
• Legislative Review - Local state legislators are invited to appear on this program to discuss local political issues and answer questions from their constituents.
• Flavors of the Coast - A cooking program featuring recipes exclusively found on the gulf coast.

Gourmet Cooking

WSRE was also the home of the nationally-televised French cooking program, Gourmet Cooking, which was hosted by Earl Peyroux. The program first went into production as a local program in 1977, going into national public television syndication in 1982, and televised through the early-1990s. At age 78, Peyroux died of unreleased circumstances on October 23, 2003. http://www.blogofdeath.com/archives/2003_10.html

WLNE

WLNE was a local educational-access television channel operated by WSRE targeted towards young children and teachers. The channel's "call sign" was actually the acronym "Where Learning Never Ends". The channel was only available on Cox Cable

Cox Communications

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 channel 19 in Pensacola. This WLNE should not be confused with the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

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, whose calls are "WLNE-TV

WLNE-TV

WLNE-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for Rhode Island and the South Coast of Massachusetts. It is licensed to New Bedford, Massachusetts, but is headquartered in and operates from studios at 10 Orms Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. It is one of two major Rhode Island...

".

On September 30, 2008, due to the Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Foundation

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discontinuing its satellite service (from which most of WLNE's education programming originated), WSRE discontinued WLNE.

End of Analog Transmission

At 12:00 am on February 18, 2009, WSRE's analog transmitters were turned off permanently. WSRE ceased analog transmissions on the original DTV transition date, even after that date was pushed back to mid-June. The analog close down was marked with a special retrospective, featuring portions of the previous WSRE sign-offs and sign-ons, an explanation of sign-offs, vintage studio photos and a final farewell; the special was broadcast on both analog and digital signals. After the analog signal closed, the digital transmission went to color bars, and signed back on a couple hours later.

External links

• Official website