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New PBS and PBS Kids Channels on Roku Offer Hundreds of Videos On-Demand, including NOVA, MASTERPIECE, FRONTLINE, SUPER WHY!, CURIOUS GEORGE and Local Favorites Such as Florida This Week and WEDU Arts Plus

Community Cinema, a national documentary screening series presented locally by WEDU, West Coast Florida’s primary PBS station (www.wedu.org/cinema) and Independent Television Service (ITVS) presents a screening of The Revolutionary Optimists at The...

Community Cinema, a national documentary screening series sponsored locally by WEDU, West Coast Florida’s primary PBS station (www.wedu.org/cinema) and Independent Television Service (ITVS) presents a screening of The Island President at New College of...

WEDU and Hillsborough County Schools Partner to Develop Early Learning STEM Program

Acclaimed Director of Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes Explores the African American Community’s Relationship with Soul Food

WEDU announces preview screenings of the popular BBC drama “Downton Abbey” in Sarasota on Jan. 2nd, Tampa on Jan. 3rd, and Lakeland on Jan. 4th.

Free Screening of Documentary Follows a Woman’s Journey as She Overcome Struggles to Become a Solar Engineer In Order to Make Her Community Self-Reliant and Sustainable. Showing at USF's the Patel Center for Global Solutions.

WEDU, west central Florida’s primary PBS station, is accepting applications that highlight the best work from area 501(c)(3) organizations, which will be celebrated at the February 21, 2013 8th Annual WEDU Be More Awards™.

Sarasota Resident, Jerry Bilik joins WEDU's Board of Directors

New PBS and PBS Kids Channels on Roku Offer Hundreds of Videos On-Demand, including NOVA, MASTERPIECE, FRONTLINE, SUPER WHY!, CURIOUS GEORGE and Local Favorites Such as Florida This Week and WEDU Arts Plus

Community Cinema, a national documentary screening series presented locally by WEDU, West Coast Florida’s primary PBS station (www.wedu.org/cinema) and Independent Television Service (ITVS) presents a screening of The Revolutionary Optimists at The...

Community Cinema, a national documentary screening series sponsored locally by WEDU, West Coast Florida’s primary PBS station (www.wedu.org/cinema) and Independent Television Service (ITVS) presents a screening of The Island President at New College of...

WEDU and Hillsborough County Schools Partner to Develop Early Learning STEM Program

WEDU, West Central Florida’s primary PBS station, continues its Community Cinema season this month with a free preview screening of Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines.

Susan Howarth, WEDU President and Chief Executive Officer announced the election of the new Board of Directors of WEDU, West Central Florida’s leading PBS station.

WEDU's new weekly arts and culture series, WEDU Arts Plus, will premiere Thursday, February 28th at 8pm on WEDU.

WEDU, west central Florida’s leading PBS television station, recognized more than 100 nonprofit organizations and individuals in the area who applied for honors and recognition in the eighth annual WEDU Be More Awards, on Feb. 21, 2013 in Tampa.

New documentary, Makers: Women Who Make America, comes to WEDU on February 26, 2013

Community Cinema, presented locally by WEDU presents a screening of The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights at Pasco Hernando Community College Brooksville Campus on Thursday, February 7th at 6:00pm.

WEDU will honor the memory of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Eugene C. Patterson by re-broadcasting his March '09 profile on WEDU’s “Suncoast Business Forum” on Thursday, January 31st at 8:30 pm, and Sunday, February 3rd at 2:30 pm.

WEDU will honor the memory of legendary Tampa Bay attorney William Reece Smith, Jr. by re-broadcasting his July 2010 profile on “Suncoast Business Forum” on Thursday, January 31st at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, February 3rd at 2:00 pm.

Acclaimed Director of Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes Explores the African American Community’s Relationship with Soul Food

WEDU announces preview screenings of the popular BBC drama “Downton Abbey” in Sarasota on Jan. 2nd, Tampa on Jan. 3rd, and Lakeland on Jan. 4th.

Free Screening of Documentary Follows a Woman’s Journey as She Overcome Struggles to Become a Solar Engineer In Order to Make Her Community Self-Reliant and Sustainable. Showing at USF's the Patel Center for Global Solutions.

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has honored WEDU with sixteen Suncoast Regional Emmy® Award nominations.

WEDU to host a screening of Half the Sky - Thursday, September 20th in the Mildred Sainer Pavilion on the New College Campus in Sarasota. Doors will open at 5:30pm, film starts at 6:00pm. A town hall discussion will follow the film. RSVP requested.

WEDU, west central Florida’s primary PBS station, is accepting applications that highlight the best work from area 501(c)(3) organizations, which will be celebrated at the February 21, 2013 8th Annual WEDU Be More Awards™.

Jim Davis to Speak on “Process, Politics & Policy in Congress” During WEDU’s 7th Annual Tax, Estate and Financial Planning Seminar

Florida's Kids & Alcohol: Synthetics, Prescriptions and Peer Pressure, will air on WEDU Thursday, April 19 at 9 pm.

WEDU will host special guests Sgt. Nathan Harris, and Wife Ashley, during a free Community Cinema preview film screening of "Hell and Back Again" followed by Q&A with audience on Tuesday, April 10 in Spring Hill, FL.

Winners Announced for the “Academy Awards for Nonprofits”

WEDU provides Sid the Scientist Kid® books to kids During “Little Scientist Day” with hands-on science stations, Sid the Science Kid appearances and more.

The seventh annual WEDU Be More Awards™ will take place on Thursday, February 9, 2012 at the A La Carte Event Pavilion in Tampa. The annual event, recognized as the “Academy® Awards for Nonprofits,” begins at 11:00am.

WEDU Public Media will host an Early Childhood Educator Workshop featuring PBS series “Sid the Science Kid” on January 19th, 2012. The workshop will incorporate a PBS educational resources focusing on a early childhood STEM learning environment.

Multiple Emmy® winner (including Best Miniseries!), Downton Abbey, premieres the long awaited second season on Sunday, January 8, 2012 at 9pm on WEDU.

West Central Florida’s leading PBS station, WEDU, was recently honored by The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences with 7 Emmys® – more than any other public or commercial television station in the region and the most ever for WEDU.