WPBT
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| City | Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach |
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| Branding | South Florida PBS |
| Slogan | Explore Your Possibilities |
| Channels |
Digital: 18 (UHF) Virtual: 2 () |
| Affiliations | |
| Owner | South Florida PBS |
| Founded | November 1953 |
| First air date | August 12, 1955 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Worldwide Public Broadcasting Television or West Palm Beach Television |
| Sister station(s) | WXEL-TV |
| Former callsigns | WTHS-TV (1955–1979, timeshare partner) |
| Former channel number(s) |
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| Former affiliations | NET (1955–1970) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 309 meters (1,014 ft) |
| Facility ID | 13456 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 25°57′30.9″N 80°12′43.3″W / 25.958583°N 80.212028°WCoordinates: 25°57′30.9″N 80°12′43.3″W / 25.958583°N 80.212028°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.wpbt2.org |
WPBT-TV (virtual channel 2, UHF digital channel 18) is a PBS member television station located in Miami, Florida, United States. The station is owned by the Community Television Foundation of South Florida, a subsidiary of South Florida PBS. WPBT maintains studio facilities located on Northeast 20th Avenue in North Miami and its transmitter is located on Northwest 199th Street in Andover. In addition to serving the Miami/Fort Lauderdale market, the station has significant viewership in much of the West Palm Beach market, and is the only Miami area television station to serve the entire South Florida metropolis.
The Community Television Foundation of South Florida was formed in November 1953. It immediately jumped into the bidding for Florida's first non-commercial educational television station. The only major competition came from the Dade County School Board. Ultimately, the Federal Communications Commission awarded licenses to both groups in a time-share arrangement. They signed on channel 2 as a shared operation on August 12, 1955, operating as a member station of National Educational Television.
Under the arrangement, the school board and the foundation alternated airtime on channel 2 airing their programming from separate studios. The school board would air five hours of educational programming during the day under the WTHS-TV call letters, while the foundation aired two hours of programming in the evenings under the WPBT calls.
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