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WFSU is the PBS member station of Tallahassee, Florida - a public television station owned by Florida State University, broadcasting from the Public Broadcast Center on Red Barber Plaza on the FSU campus since 1960. With satellite WFSG extending the signal to Panama City and the Emerald Coast, it serves the whole Florida Panhandle and beyond into southwest Georgia, and its programming also streams live online.

The station's history is inseparable from its university owner: Florida State persuaded the FCC to make Tallahassee's only VHF channel a noncommercial license, bringing public television to the region years before commercial television fully arrived - and giving the capital city a public station before it had all three commercial networks.

Public Television with a Capital Beat

As the PBS station in Florida's capital, WFSU's programming carries a civic weight most public stations never assume. In 1973, WFSU and Jacksonville's WJCT launched Today in the Legislature - coverage of the Florida Legislature that was the first program of its kind in the United States, preceding legislative television in other states and even C-SPAN's congressional coverage. That tradition continues in the station's modern civic coverage: candidate forums for state and local races, policy discussions and election programming, streamed live and archived for the voters of the capital region, alongside PBS's national schedule of news, documentary, science and children's programming.

From the FSU Campus to the Emerald Coast

WFSU-TV went on the air 20 September 1960 on channel 11, the Tallahassee market's only VHF allocation. The FCC's decision to make it noncommercial - secured by Florida State - shaped the market for decades: Tallahassee waited years for full commercial network service while public broadcasting arrived first. WFSG, the Panama City satellite, signed on 22 July 1988 to replace a low-power translator and now simulcasts WFSU across the western Panhandle and the Emerald Coast. The station's siblings round out a full public media operation: NPR member WFSU-FM and classical WFSQ share the Public Broadcast Center, making the FSU campus home to one of Florida's complete public broadcasting complexes.

The Red Barber Plaza Studios

The Public Broadcast Center sits on Red Barber Plaza - named for the broadcasting legend - on the Florida State campus, with the main transmitter near Bloxham. From that base, WFSU produces local documentaries and civic programs for the Panhandle, carries the PBS schedule that generations of Panhandle children grew up on, and streams the whole operation to whatever screen the viewer holds - a university-owned station serving the capital region for more than six decades.

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