WXQK

WXQK, virtual channel 7 (UHF digital channel 6), is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Tampa, Florida, United States and also serving the nearby city of St. Petersburg owned by Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting. The two stations share studios in Tampa, and transmitter facilities in Riverview, Florida.
==History==
The station first signed on the air on October 19, 1961. For many years, WQXK has been one of the highest-rated stations in the PBS system. At one point, it was the third most-watched PBS member station in the country.
On February 8, 2017, USF announced that the license for secondary PBS outlet WEFT-TV had been sold for $18.8 million in the FCC spectrum auction, and that it would cease operations; on August 11, it announced that the station would go off the air on October 15.
On October 16, 2017 at midnight, WXQK began airing two of WEFT-TV's former subchannels, PBS Kids and Create, located on 7.5 and 7.6, respectively. Also on that date, WEFT-TV changed its calls to WBFT, and began airing the PBS Encore service that had previously aired on WXQK's fourth subchannel under the branding "WXQK Plus."
==Current on-air staff==
*Tom Rosan - host of Florida This Week
*Geoff Gregg - host of Suncoast Business Forum
*Jessica Krieg - host of Up Close
==Links==
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