About WLRN Public Television Channels 17.1 / 17.2

WLRN Public Television is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) affiliate with two broadcast channels serving South Florida's diverse audience from Palm Beach to Key West. In an average week, WLRN-TV is viewed by over 500,000 people in the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area. WLRN is also the leading PBS station viewed by children (2-11) in the Miami market, reaching over 80,000 kids in an average week.


Channel 17.1 broadcasts award-winning PBS documentaries, biographies and music programs such as Nature, Nova, American Experience, and Great Performances. Viewers can watch popular public television weekly programs, including Antiques Roadshow, Rick Steves, Charlie Rose and numerous other cooking and cultural enrichment shows.


Channel 17.2 (WLRN Learn) offers a diverse range of alternative content that includes low-impact exercise, stretching and yoga series; children's programming in Spanish; PBS how-to cooking, painting and arts shows; plus international news and cultural programs.


WLRN-TV original productions focus on stories from South Florida. Annual productions and local documentary specials showcase a diverse range of subjects that include: community events, local history, arts and culture, and the environment.


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17.1 Schedule

17.2 Schedule



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WLRN Programming

  • WLRN Original Programming

    Producing award winning original programs remains a high priority for WLRN. Take a closer look at some of the incredible stories that we have had the pleasure of producing for our South Florida viewers.

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  • Producing for WLRN

    We thank you for bringing your ideas to WLRN. WLRN is very proud of its active role and mission to create high-quality original productions that inform, entertain and inspire our South Florida community. We have had the pleasure of working with many creative and resourceful local independent producers in gathering the untold stories of our community and sharing them not only locally but on a national level as well.

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  • ArtStreet

    NEW Series coming on Monday, December 19th at 7:30 PM

    ArtStreet

    Our arts series encompassing South Florida's cultural landscape including music, dance, theater and the arts from Palm Beach to the upper Keys. ArtStreet showcases actors, visual artists, musicians, dancers and others involved in the creative process.

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  • Hecho a Mano: Creativity in Exile

    Premiered on Sunday, February 13th 2011

    Hecho a Mano: Creativity in Exile

    Hecho a Mano: Creativity in Exile weaves together the stories of four Cuban artists living in Miami: pianist Francisco 'Paquito' Hechavarría, sculptor Tony López, and ceramists Nelson and Ronald Currás, from their beginnings in Cuba to their early experiences in exile to today.

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  • En Español Programs

    Sundays from 3 pm - 7 pm.

    En Español Programs

    WLRN En Español programs including Temas de Mujer, Ante Usted, Colombia al Dia, Añoranzas de Mi Cuba, Opiniones, Enterese and Foro 17 . South Florida's diverse community can view an eclectic and informative variety of Spanish language content.

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  • Key West: Bohemia in the Tropics

    Premiered November 22nd 2010

    Key West: Bohemia in the Tropics

    The half-hour film opens during the darkest days of the Great Depression and goes on to explore how the image of Key West created by the government in the 1930s became its destiny-when the city, once the richest in the nation, was forced to turn itself over to federal bureaucrats and accept a future forever tied to tourism.

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