WSRE

WSRE-TV
Pensacola Junior College Main Campus
Branding	WSRE
Slogan	Public Television for the Gulf Coast
Channels	23 (UHF) analog, 31 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Pensacola Junior College
Founded	1967
Former affiliations	National Educational Television (1967-1970)
Transmitter Power	3020kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital)
Website	www.wsre.org

WSRE is the PBS member station for the Northwest Florida and South Alabama 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 and Paul Amos Performance Studio, and numerous equipment and technical upgrades.

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

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 18,000 sq. foot 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, including Open Forum, Connecting the Community, Aware, PJC Today, Legislative Review and formerly Flavors of the Coast. Studio C is a much smaller studio and is almost exclusively used for television programs and segments designed for satellite uplinks. MSNBC's Scarborough Country is frequently produced (sometimes for weeks or maybe a month or two at a time) in Studio C when Joe Scarborough is home in Pensacola.

Digital Programming

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels

Channel	Programming
23.1 / 31.1	WSRE HD - WSRE's signature programming (in HD when available )
23.2 / 31.2	WSRE World - PBS news, science, public affairs and nature programming.
23.3 / 31.3	WSRE Plus - features programming from the FL Knowledge Network, the FL Channel and how-to programming from Create.

Local Programming

The station produces many local and regional programs, including:

• Open Forum - a topical 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, FL 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.

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. [1]

External link

• Official website