WEFS-TV Local Content and Service Report 2017

WEFS 2017 LOCAL CONTENT AND SERVICE REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY “This is, and has been, a constant source of informative entertainment for many years.” - R & J Haskell WEFS is proud to be an independent public television station, offering a unique broadcast service to our Central Florida community. LOCAL VALUE WEFS offers relevant and compelling programming to the viewers in our community. Being an Independent Public Television Station based in Brevard County gives us a unique identity in the Orlando/Melbourne/ Daytona Beach Communities. WEFS gives its viewers alternative independent educational programs. And we are able to provide programming that other stations carrying a full schedule of PBS shows cannot. 2017 KEY SERVICES Aside from our primary channel we offer: Classic Arts Showcase highlighting performances of variety of the arts including, ballet, symphony, theater, film, and opera. On our third channel we carry the NASA Education Channel. Both of these services are carried exclusively by WEFS in the area we serve. Our fourth channel is The Florida Channel featuring programming covering all three branches of Florida state government. LOCAL IMPACT Comments from our viewers are overwhelmingly positive. For example, one of our viewers said of the exercise show we air, “Sit and be Fit,” “I can't thank you enough for the gentle but effective exercises. I had a stroke at age 63 and started right in again with the program two days after my release from the hospital. At home, I seek educational programming. I surf the tele channels and have more and more found myself camped at YOUR station's door step!”