united states branding wlrn channels digital 20 uhf virtual 17 psip affiliations .1 pbs .2 wlrn kids .3 create .4 explrn owner miami dade county public schools the school board of miami dade county florida first air date september 7 1962 ; 54 years ago 1962 09 07 call letters meaning we learn sister station s wlrn fm former callsigns wsec tv 1962 1979 former channel number s analog 17 uhf 1962 2009 former affiliations net 1962 1970 transmitter power 870 kw height 301 m facility id 66358 transmitter coordinates 25 58 47.9 n 80 11 45.5 w 25.979972 n 80.195972 w 25.979972 ; 80.195972 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website www.wlrn.org wlrn tv virtual channel 17 uhf digital channel 20 is a pbs member television station located in miami florida united states . the station is owned by the miami dade county public schools district alongside npr member radio station wlrn fm 91.3 . wlrn maintains studio facilities located on northeast 15th street and northeast 1st avenue in miami and its transmitter is located at mctyre park in miami gardens . wlrn operates twenty closed circuit educational channels for use by public schools within miami dade county . contents 1 history 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 references 4 external links history edit prior to the station s sign on the uhf channel 17 allocation in the miami fort lauderdale market was occupied by abc affiliate witv . it lost the abc affiliation to newly signed on wpst tv channel 10 now wplg in august 1957 and went off the air soon afterward . wlrn tv first signed on the air on september 7 1962 as wsec tv ; it was the second non commercial educational television station in the market . operating as a member station of national educational television net wsec was originally owned by the dade county school board which had persuaded the federal communications commission to reallocate the channel 17 license for non commercial use . at the time the dade county school board was part owner of the vhf channel 2 allocation in the market as part of a shared time agreement with community television foundation of south florida owners of wpbt . under the original arrangement the school board operated the channel 2 frequency for five hours each day as wths tv carrying instructional television during the daytime hours while the community television foundation would take over the channel for two hours each evening to broadcast wpbt . community television foundation had already begun increasing wpbt s operating hours a process that accelerated with wsec s sign on . the 1970 formation of pbs brought a further increase in wpbt s broadcasting hours . by the late 1970s pbs had grown enough that the split time arrangement no longer made sense for a market of miami fort lauderdale s size . in 1979 the dade county school board returned the wths license to the fcc while wpbt took over channel 2 full time . most of wths educational programming moved to wsec which changed its call letters to the current wlrn tv to match its sister public radio station . gradually wlrn tv evolved into a secondary pbs station for south florida alongside wpbt . digital television edit digital channels edit channel video aspect psip short name programming 1 17.1 720p 16 9 wlrn dt main wlrn tv programing pbs 17.2 480i 4 3 wlrn d2 wlrn kids 17.3 wlrn d3 create 17.4 wlrn d4 explrn analog to digital conversion edit wlrn tv terminated its analog signal on uhf channel 17 on june 12 2009 as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television . 2 the station s digital signal remained on its pre transition uhf channel 20 . through the use of psip digital television receivers display wlrn tv s virtual channel as 17 . references edit rabbitears tv query for wlrn list of digital full power stations external links edit wlrn tv official website query the fcc s tv station database for wlrn biafn s media web database information on wlrn 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television areas by city fort myers gainesville jacksonville miami orlando pensacola panama city tallahassee tampa st. petersburg west palm beach see also bahamas tv bermuda tv television in cuba v t e pbs member stations in the state of florida wpbt 2 miami wedu 3 tampa wuft 5 gainesville wjct 7 jacksonville wfsu 11 wfsg 56 tallahassee panama city wusf 16 tampa wlrn 17 miami wsre 23 pensacola wucf 24 orlando wgcu 30 fort myers wxel 42 west palm beach see also abc cbs cw fox ion mynetworktv nbc pbs other stations in florida v t e miami dade county public schools institutions secondary schools public american carol city central coral gables coral park edison goleman hialeah hialeah gardens hialeah miami lakes homestead jackson killian krop miami miami springs mourning norland north miami north miami beach northwestern palmetto reagan doral south miami southridge southwest miami sunset varela magnets booker t. braddock coral reef dash ferguson mart mast mast academy mast fiu mast 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