WEFS

WEFS is a public broadcast station serving the Orlando television market. Owned by Eastern Florida State College, formerly Brevard Community College, it is based at EFSC's campus in Cocoa, where the station is licensed. It broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 30.

History

Early years

WEFS began on June 18, 1987 as WRES on channel 18. The station's original slogan was "WRES, Your Educational Resource;" the call letters were derived from the word "resource." It was originally an educational independent station. In 1991, the station changed its call letters to WBCC and swapped channel positions with commercial WKCF, moving to channel 68.

PBS membership and digital conversion

On January 1, 2002, the station became a secondary PBS member station, showing some limited programming from the network. By that April, renovations began to accommodate WBCC-DT channel 30, which took to the air on November 4, 2003.

Partnerships with University of Central Florida, Brevard Public Schools, Florida Knowledge Network and The Florida Channel filled out the channel lineup. Until the summer of 2010 BPS-TV, the program stream for the educational channel of Brevard Public Schools, was originated from the studios of WBCC, and was carried on a WBCC subchannel; after the arrangement ended, BPS-TV became available only on cable.