WPCT (channel 46) is a
television station in
Panama 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 (off
Front Beach Road) just east of Panama City Beach.
History
The station was founded in 1987. It was originally the
UPN affiliate for the
Panama City market, airing tourist information during the overnight hours as well as carrying some
syndicated
Syndication may refer to:
* Broadcast syndication, where individual stations buy programs outside the network system
* Print syndication, where individual newspapers or magazines license news articles, columns, or comic strips
* Web syndication, ...
talk shows,
drama series,
movies, and off-network
sitcoms during the day outside of prime time network programming until 2001, when UPN was dropped in favor of 24-hour tourist info programming.
Technical information
Subchannel
Analog-to-digital conversion
WPCT shut down its analog signal, over
UHF
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (on ...
channel 46, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to
transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 47.
Through the use of
PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's
virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 46.
References
External links
Independent television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1987
PCT
1987 establishments in Florida
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