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WLRN-TV
	Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Branding	WLRN
Channels	Digital: 20 (UHF);
Subchannels	17.1 PBS
Affiliations	PBS (since 1970)
Owner	Miami-Dade County Public Schools; (The School Board of Miami-Dade County, Florida)
First air date	1962
Call letters’ meaning	LeaRN
Sister station(s)	WLRN-FM
Former callsigns	WSEC-TV (1962-1979)
Former channel number(s)	Analog:; 17 (1962-2009)
Former affiliations	NET (1962-1970)
Transmitter Power	870 kW
Height	301 m
Facility ID	66358
Transmitter Coordinates	25°58′47.9″N 80°11′45.5″W / 25.979972°N 80.195972°W
Website	www.wlrn.org

WLRN-TV is a PBS member station broadcasting on channel 17 (DTV 20) in Miami, Florida.

WLRN-TV signed on the air as WSEC-TV in 1962 as a second educational non-profit television station, licensed to the Dade County School Board, and affiliated with National Educational Television (NET).

During the early years of public television in South Florida, the Dade County School Board and the Community Television Foundation of South Florida shared time on Channel 2 (each had its own transmitter and its own call letters). The School Board would broadcast five hours of instructional television during the day (on WTHS), while the CTF would broadcast two hours in the evening (on WPBT). This arrangement would continue with the CTF broadcasting longer hours as time went by. Eventually, the School Board and the CTF decided that this arrangement could not continue. The School Board returned the license for WTHS over to the Federal Communications Commission in 1978, while WPBT continued broadcasting (now fulltime) on Channel 2. The calls for WSEC were changed to WLRN-TV as well, to match the radio station.

WLRN-TV presents a variety of educational and local programming to the South Florida community. The station offices and studios are located in Miami.

In addition, WLRN operates twenty closed-circuit educational channels for use by Miami-Dade's public schools and WLRN Learn, a MHz Worldview affiliate on cable 79 in most areas.^[2]

The school board also owns WLRN-FM 91.3, a member of NPR.

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[edit] References

^ The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says June 26, while the Television and Cable Factbook says September 7.
^ http://www.wlrn.org/web/learnc.php

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[0] The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says June 26, while the Television and Cable Factbook says September 7.

[1] ttp://www.wlrn.org/web/learnc.php

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