WCEU

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WCEU
New Smyrna Beach/Daytona Beach, Florida
Branding PBS Channel 15
Slogan Public television that matters
Channels Analog: 15 (UHF)

Digital: 33 (UHF)
Affiliations PBS
Owner Daytona Beach College
(Daytona Beach Community College)
First air date February 8, 1988
Transmitter Power 708 kW (analog)
308 kW (digital)
Height 176 m (analog)
491 m (digital)
Facility ID 12171
Transmitter Coordinates 29°10′25.3″N, 81°9′25.2″W (analog)
28°36′36.3″N, 81°3′34.6″W (digital)
Website www.wceu.org

WCEU is a PBS member station in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is owned and operated by Daytona Beach College and has its studios at the Center for Educational Telecommunications on the DBC campus. It is licensed to nearby New Smyrna Beach.

In 1985, DBC (then known as Daytona Beach Community College), Bethune-Cookman College, Stetson University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the Atlantic Center for the Arts formed the Coastal Educational Broadcasters in order to bring a public television station to Volusia and Flagler counties. They felt WMFE, the PBS station in Orlando, was neglecting Daytona Beach. In February 1988, WCEU signed on with a limited schedule of three hours a day, three days a week. Support in the area was enough that within nine months, it was recognized by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. By January 1989, it was a full-fledged PBS station, though it didn't expand to a fuller broadcast day until 1993.

In 1992, a signal expansion and must-carry rules expanded WCEU's audience to over 1.3 million viewers in Central Florida, including Orlando itself. It moved to its current facility in 1999. DBCC became the sole licensee in 2002.

In 2005, WCEU rebranded itself as DBCC 15 to better reflect its relationship with DBCC. In January 2008, it rebranded itself again merely as PBS Channel 15, after DBCC became Daytona Beach College.

[edit] Digital television

WCEU's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Programming
15.1 Main WCEU Programming
15.2 DBC Telecourses
15.3 Florida Knowledge Network (weekdays, 6AM to 6PM only)
15.4 The Florida Channel
15.5 WCEU HD

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Broadcast television in the Orlando / Daytona Beach / Melbourne market  (Nielsen DMA #19)

WESH 2 (NBC) - WKMG 6 (CBS, .2 Net Coming Mid-08) - WFTV 9 (ABC) - WCEU 15 (PBS) - WKCF 18 (The CW) - W21AU 21 (AZA) - WMFE 24 (PBS) - WVEN 26 (UNI) - WRDQ 27 (Ind) - WRCF 29 (A1) - WTMO 31 (TEL) - WOFL 35 (Fox) - WZXZ 36 (Unknown) - WOTF 43 (TFU) - WTGL 45 (TLN / Faith TV) - WHLV 52 (TBN) - WOPX 56 (ION) - WRBW 65 (MNTV) - WBCC 68 (PBS)
Local digital television channels
WACX 40 (Ind/Rel)
Stations serving Ocala, part of the Orlando market
Ocala: W07BP 7 (Edu.) - WOFT-LP 8 (Ind) - WOGX 51 (Fox)
Gainesville: WUFT 5 (PBS) - WCJB 20 (ABC) (The CW on DT2) 

Local cable television channels
BPS-TV (PBS, Brevard Co.) - Central Florida News 13 - SGTV (Seminole Co.)
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PBS Member Stations in the state of Florida
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, Religious, Spanish and Other stations in the state of Florida