WPCT
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| Branding | Beach TV |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Beach TV Properties, Inc. |
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| History | |
| Founded | July 2, 1986 |
First air date | April 3, 1989 |
Former call signs | W46AN (1986–1996) |
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Call signmeaning | W Panama City Television |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 4354 |
| ERP | 160 kW |
| HAAT | 72 m (236 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°10′53.4″N85°46′48″W/ 30.181500°N 85.78000°W |
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Public license information | |
WPCT(channel 46) is atelevision stationinPanama City Beach, Florida,United States, which broadcasts information for local tourists.Owned by Beach TV Properties, Inc., the station maintains transmitter facilities on Warner Avenue (offFront Beach Road) just east of Panama City Beach.
History[edit]
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The station was founded on July 2, 1986, and began broadcasting on April 3, 1989. It was originally anindependent stationbefore becoming theUPNaffiliate for thePanama Citymarketon January 16, 1995. It aired tourist information during the overnight hours and carried somesyndicatedtalk shows,drama series,movies,and off-networksitcomsduring the day outside of prime time network programming until 1998, when UPN was dropped in favor of 24-hour tourist info programming.
Technical information[edit]
Subchannels[edit]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 46.1 | 720p | 16:9 | WPCT-DT | Tourist Info |
| 46.2 | 480i | OUTSIDE | Outside TV | |
| 46.3 | DEFY | Defy TV | ||
| 46.4 | NEWSY | Scripps News | ||
| 46.5 | GETTV | Get | ||
| 46.6 | NEWSMAX | Newsmax TV | ||
| 46.7 | BUZZR | Buzzr |
Analog-to-digital conversion[edit]
WPCT shut down its analog signal, overUHFchannel 46, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States were totransition from analog to digital broadcastsunder federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 47,[3]usingvirtual channel46.
References[edit]
- ^"Facility Technical Data for WPCT".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
- ^RabbitEars TV Query for WPCT
- ^"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on August 29, 2013.RetrievedMarch 24,2012.
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