WEDU (the call letters short for EDUcation) is a PBS station, serving Tampa and Saint Petersburg, Florida. The station first signed on the air on October 17, 1958 and is the fifth most-watched PBS station in the United States. Its transmitter is located in Riverview, Florida. [1] PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... Franklin Street, looking North, Tampa c. ... Downtown St. ... October 17 is the 290th (in leap years the 291st) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Riverview is the name of three places in the State of Florida in the United States of America: Riverview, Duval County, Florida Riverview, Escambia County, Florida Riverview, Hillsborough County, Florida This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
WEDU now competes for viewers from rival PBS station WUSF. The new WUSF-TV complex, completed in 2001. ...
But the donation, announced Monday by WEDU, also represents a milestone for the area's highest-rated public TV outlet - an example of how far it has come since the dark days five years ago when fiscal shortfalls forced officials to lay off nearly one-third of the station's staff.
WEDU has agreed to use the McCann Foundation gift in specific ways: $25,000 to create a pilot episode of a local health information show, Smart Health, to be hosted by former WFTS-Ch.
When Lobo first took over, WEDU had just laid off 18 people from a 62-member staff and was struggling with $2-million in budget cuts and a slump in memberships.
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