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Channel:

25

Programming:

58.1 - Beach TV - tourist information

Transmitter Location:

[map] - Just east of the Holley community, north of Navarre, where River Road and Five Forks Road meet north of FL-87.

Power (ERP):

42 kW

Height Above Average Terrain (HAAT):

200 feet

Antenna:

Directional

Other Information:

41 dBu protected contour map, from the FCC. (OSM Link)

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History:

Originally on analog channel 58, this station caters to the hotel crowd with tourist information programming.  It's one of the lower powered "full power" stations in the country, and may not actually be on the air as of 2016, using the license to force cable/satellite carriage across the entire Mobile-Pensacola TV market. 

After the digital transition, the station moved to RF channel 49.  They moved again in the fall of 2019 to RF channel 25 as part of the spectrum repacking process.