WEDU is My Source for…

WEDU strives to be the source for educational, cultural and entertaining local/community information online, on-air or in-print for the west central Florida area. WEDU endeavors to increase our viewer’s awareness of and participation in outreach activities and special events by demonstrating how much of a resource we are to the community.

WEDU has joined the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s (CPB) My Source Public Awareness Initiative (PAI), which aims to celebrate and reaffirm the essential role of public broadcasting in our society.

The goal of the My Source Initiative is to develop a growing awareness and appreciation for public media as a valuable resource that informs, enlightens and enriches public life. WEDU hopes to fulfill this goal by encouraging public broadcasting viewers to contribute their experiences and engage in the national conversation on how public media cultivates an informed and educated civil society.

Categories

Arts & Entertainment

WEDU provides premiere arts and entertainment choices with a unique mix of national favorites and locally produced and original documentaries. WEDU’s programming explores new avenues for the arts and award-winning performance anthologies from every genre that connects the community to the area’s rich cultural life.

History & Documentary

WEDU’s history series and mini-series bring to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation. WEDU’s inventive documentaries use varying styles of story-telling as the medium to record the cross-section of human experience, from monumental conflicts to simple lives lived day to day. It documents the events, pressures, and institutions of modern society, and records cultural practices and changes.

Kids & Educational

Quality children’s programming is primarily focused on building reading skills and engaging kids in television programs, exciting games, and playful Web sites by providing kids, parents, caregivers, and teachers with easy-to-use and resource materials to helping children ages 2 to 8 get ready to read.

News & Public Affairs

Hailed as “the last best hope for broadcast documentaries,” public television’s news and public affairs programming cover the scope and complexity of the human experience through incisive documentaries. WEDU’s news and public affairs programs strive to capture the world’s news in all its complexity by exploring diverse subject matters created to inform, intrigue, teach, enlighten, convert, outrage, accuse, and also to serve the public good.

Science & Nature

To satisfy the cultural fascination with the non-human, the mysterious, the unknown, the exotic and remote parts of the natural world, programs devoted to the study of the biological universe offer viewers an opportunity to virtually “go” to locations normally inaccessible. Public television is relied upon to present complex scientific questions in a manner comprehensible to laymen and in a relatively entertaining fashion.

Facts about Public TV

  • Americans consider PBS the nation’s most trusted institution among nationally known organizations.
  • The core values that attach viewers to public broadcasting include lifelong learning, substance, curiosity, credibility, accuracy, honesty, purpose, authenticity, intimacy, and the importance of civil discourse.
  • Public broadcasting’s viewers find value in its educational programming, ‘unbiased’ and ‘unfiltered’ information, and deeper reporting on important issues.
  • Public television has been delivering quality research-based content to young learners for more than 35 years.
  • Public television stations have a long history of working with universities. 68% of stations have established partnerships with local universities.
  • 95% of public television stations offer educational programs or learning activities to their local communities.
  • 85% of public television stations offer educational content aligned to local, state, or national education standards.
  • 73 million people in almost 46 million households watch public television during an average week.
  • Most American households (63%) and nearly 125 million people tune into public television in a month.
  • There are more than 860 independently operated, noncommercial public radio stations in the U.S.