Waycross Public Media

**Waycross Public Media** is a Twitch TV station that is an unofficial PBS member station for Waycross, Georgia.

## History

### Before WWPS

PBS Fernandina was formed in August 2020. It was a project launched alongside PBS Twitch. While none of these stations made it, PBS Fernandina served as the direct predecessor to WWPS.

### WWPS Initial Launch

WWPS signed on the air in November 2020. It reached initial success due to it's ability to act like a real PBS station. WWPS aired PBS content as well as a local program called Waycross News @9.

### Comtoons/WWPS partnership

During WWPS original run, it picked up programming for a Comtoons block (then under it's original name, JFM-TV). The original Comtoons block lasted until a few days before WWPS' original shutdown. In March 2022, it was announced via the schedule that the Comtoons block was back for the new WWPS which would've coincided launch with the channel. However on March 28th, it was announced that the partnership had ended citing low test viewership and copyright concerns.

### WWPS and PlazmaTV rivalry

During WWPS initial run, the owner of PlazmaTV, Ultriax and Daniel Lawson got on bad terms with each other. This caused Ultriax to split from WWPS and form a new channel called BluuTV (renamed PlazmaTV). However as of 2022, they are on good terms again.

### Shutdown

WWPS was announced to shutdown on November 25, 2020 with Daniel citing 'mental health issues' as the main reason. The channel ended it's broadcast at 5:59pm that day after A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. The channel aired the National Anthem with credits. After that, a slide was shown for a few minutes explaining what happened before the stream cut off. Right before the transmitters were abruptly cut off, it was also revealed that PowerFilm was a contributing factor of the shutdown to save costs.

### Revivals

In June 2021, WWPS launched due to Catcher bringing up the name whilst working on a project called "WDLE". It launched in July, and lasted until September. It was replaced by D-CTwitch.

In October 2021, due to the success of past WWPS attempts, it was brought back for the 3rd time! In November, it closed again, soon to be replaced with N-Twitch.

On April 4, 2022, to coincide with PowerFilm's 5th anniversary, WWPS was relaunched at 6:00am with Ready Jet Go!. The channel would perform well at first but ratings began to decline. To combat this, WWPS would shutdown and rebrand to Blurapid. The final program on WWPS was Ready to Learn, originally scheduled to premiere on May 12th.

In October of 2022, Waycross PBS relaunched as an alternative for the scrapped *Dash and Dot Show* , since a voice actor for Dash was never found. It was here that Jacob had joined the Waycross PBS team, originally to help out with the show. That same month, Waycross PBS was shut down.

On the night of December 18, 2022, Waycross PBS relaunched again. It started with a Kahoot game hosted by Eugene of *Eugene's Show*, followed by the network premiere of *Puppet People*, then a marathon of PBS Kids shows. The next morning, a rerun of the *Puppet People* Christmas Special aired at 5:30am, followed by a live broadcast of Eugene's Ode to Public Television entitled *Public Television, My Beloved*. Then, the Puppet People counted down to the official launch of Waycross PBS. This was followed by *WordWorld*, marking the official launch of Waycross PBS and Waycross PBS Kids.

A few months later, due to technical issues, Waycross PBS took another break from streaming. They came back in May 2023 due to the Qubo revival not going as planned and this run of Waycross PBS is still going on to this day.