WDSC Leaves PBS

WDSC is dropping its affiliation with PBS. The Daytona State College station will focus on teaching students with a new degree program. The Daytona News Journal reports state and federal budget cuts resulted in the college ending its membership with the Public Broadcasting Service, which made up 25 percent of its programming. It not clear from the article what programming will be aired by WDSC.


WDSC is not the only Public TV station in Florida to change direction. In April of 2011 it was announced that WMFE, Orlando was up for sale. The FCC has not yet approved the sale of the license to Daystar, a religious broadcaster. 


Daytona Beach and Orlando are being served by WBCC-TV out of Cocoa, Florida. 


 

Good News for PBS in Orlando

The University of Central Florida and Brevard Community College (UCF and BCC) will be picking up where WMFE left off. The two educational institutions announced they will be picking up PBS programming.

WMFE notified PBS on April 1 that they were selling their TV operation to focus on public radio. The TV operation was sold to Daystar Television Network, an evangelical Christian broadcaster based in Dallas.