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Full-power digital · channel 13 · TAMPA, FL
| Facility ID | 21808 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING, INC. |
| Community of licence | TAMPA, FL
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 27.84764, -82.26372 |
| Effective radiated power | 25 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 491.8 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | https://www.wedu.org/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | none |
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| W02DI-D | 2 | LPT | |
| facility 794248 | 3 | LPD | |
| facility 795448 | 8 | LPD | |
| facility 794779 | 8 | LPD | |
| WFLA-TV | 9 | DTV | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| facility 795382 | 11 | LPD | |
| WTVT | 12 | DTV | NEW WORLD COMMUNICATIONS OF TAMPA, INC. |
| WEDQ | 13 | DTV | FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING, |
| facility 794776 | 14 | LPD | |
| W16DQ-D | 16 | LPD | HC2 STATION GROUP, INC. |
| WFTS-TV | 17 | DTV | SCRIPPS BROADCASTING HOLDINGS LLC |
| WVEA-TV | 20 | DTV | UNIMAS TAMPA LLC |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WEDU | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WEDU | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.