WXEL-TV
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West Palm Beach, Florida United States |
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| Branding | WXEL South Florida PBS |
| Channels |
Digital: 27 (UHF) Virtual: 42 () |
| Subchannels | 42.1 PBS 42.2 Create 42.3 V-Me 42.4 PBS Kids |
| Translators | W31DC-D 31 Fort Pierce |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | South Florida PBS |
| First air date | July 8, 1982 |
| Call letters' meaning | EXcELlence |
| Sister station(s) | WPBT |
| Former callsigns | WHRS-TV (1982–1985) |
| Former channel number(s) | 42 (UHF analog, 1982–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 400 kW (digital) |
| Height | 440 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 61084 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 26°34′37″N 80°14′32″W / 26.57694°N 80.24222°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.wxel.org |
WXEL-TV is the PBS member public television licensed to West Palm Beach, Florida. WXEL is a community-based public television station, independently owned and operated by The WXEL Public Broadcasting Corporation, a Florida not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational and cultural organization that is a subsidiary of South Florida PBS. Its studios are located in Boynton Beach, while its transmitter is just south of Wellington
WXEL signed on-the-air on July 8, 1982 as WHRS-TV, under the ownership of South Florida Public Telecommunications. It was a sister station to WHRS-FM, founded in 1969. The call letters came from Hagen Road Elementary School, where the radio station's studios were originally based. Prior to 1982, Miami's WPBT had doubled as the PBS member for the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast, and continued to claim the Palm Beaches as part of its primary coverage area for several years. On January, 1985, the station became known as "WXEL-TV" along with its sister radio station, WXEL-FM (now WFLV). (The WXEL call sign had been used on channel 8 in Cleveland, Ohio, on what is now WJW.)
In 1997, South Florida Public Telecommunications sold WXEL-FM-TV to Barry University, a Catholic university located in Miami Shores. During its ownership, WXEL was one of at least three PBS members owned and operated by a Catholic-related organization (WLAE-TV in New Orleans, Louisiana and KMBH in the Rio Grande Valley are the others), and one of at least four run by a religious organization in general (counting Provo, Utah's KBYU-TV). Despite the Catholic-based ownership, WXEL showed no religious programming, other than documentaries provided by PBS.
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