WSRE

WSRE

Pensacola, Florida Mobile, Alabama United States
City	Pensacola, Florida
Channels	Digital: 24 (UHF) Virtual: 23
Branding	WSRE PBS
Programming
Affiliations	23.1: PBS for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Pensacola State College (The District Board of Trustees, PSC)
History
Founded	1967
First air date	September 11, 1967 (57 years ago) (1967-09-11)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 23 (UHF, 1967–2009) Digital: 31 (UHF, 2001–2019)
Former affiliations	NET (1967–1970)
Call sign meaning	Santa Rosa and Escambia counties
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	17611
ERP	859 kW
HAAT	551.6 m (1,810 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	30°36′41″N 87°36′26.4″W / 30.61139°N 87.607333°W / 30.61139; -87.607333
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.wsre.org

WSRE (channel 23) is a PBS member television station in Pensacola, Florida, United States, owned by Pensacola State College (PSC). The station's studios are located at the Kugelman Center for Telecommunications on the Pensacola State main campus, and its transmitter is located near Robertsdale, Alabama.

WSRE went on the air in 1967 under the ownership of the Escambia County board of education. Its transmitter and studios were located at what was then known as Pensacola Junior College, and it provided instructional television and production services for local K-12 schools and the junior college as well as evening programming from National Educational Television, later supplanted by PBS. The college became the licensee in 1971, after Florida state law moved junior colleges under the control of the State Board of Education. In 1991, the WSRE-TV Foundation was established to provide financial support and administration.^[2] In addition to a range of local programming, WSRE has provided public telecommunications and other services, including a radio reading service.