WDSC-TV

WDSC-TV Channel 15 is an independent non-commercial educational public television station located in Daytona Beach, Florida. The station's a former member station of the Public Broadcasting Service Television Network and it is owned and operated by The Daytona State College and has its studios at the Center for Educational Telecommunications on the DSC campus. It is licensed to nearby New Smyrna Beach.

History

In 1985, DSC (then known as Daytona Beach Community College), Bethune-Cookman College, Stetson University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the Atlantic Center for the Arts formed the Coastal Educational Broadcasters in order to bring a public television station to Volusia and Flagler counties. They felt WMFE-TV, the PBS station in Orlando was neglecting Daytona Beach. On February 8, 1988 Channel 15 signed on as WCEU with a limited schedule of three hours a day & three days a week. Support in the area was enough that within nine months, it was recognized by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. By January 1989, it was a full-fledged PBS member station, though it didn't expand to a fuller broadcast day until 1993.