WLX-Horizon, formerly WLX-TV, has long served as a trusted source of educational content for families and the St. Lucie County community. WLX-Horizon broadcasts instructional television programming, school board meetings and workshops, local shows and informational programming focused on schools across the county. Its content reaches homes and businesses 24 hours a day, seven days a week, across multiple platforms to ensure broad accessibility.
The WLX Horizon App further enhances the viewer experience by offering access to exclusive live events, hundreds of programs, interviews, and more—anytime, anywhere. It is available as a free download on iOS, Android, and popular on-demand streaming platforms, including Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV.
| Channel/Service | Availability Location |
|---|---|
| Comcast Channel 13 | Ft. Pierce |
| Comcast Channel 19 | Port St. Lucie |
| Hometown Channel 19 | St. Lucie County |
| AT&T TV Channel 99 | Under St. Lucie County Community Channels |
| Bluestream Cable Channel 19 | St. Lucie County |
| SLPS Wireless Channel 36 | St. Lucie County |
| WLX Horizon App | Global |
Broadcasting
In addition to the main channel, our schools have access to special channels including the St. Lucie County Education Channel, special event satellite programming, NASA-TV, and the Classic Arts Channel. Many instructional programs originate from sites around the world and feature electronic field trips providing students with meaningful enrichment. Resource materials for a variety of programs are available online through our program providers.
Programs may not be duplicated further and may not be re-broadcast or uploaded in whole or in part in any form without the express written permission of St. Lucie Public Schools. Programs are for home use only.
Production Facilities
Studio Production
Media Services – WLX-Horizon supports the prerecording of television shows, video podcasts, public service announcements, and short-form content within a 30′ x 50′ modular studio space. Productions can also be broadcast live via a house feed to Comcast channels 13 and 19, District Wireless channel 36, and the WLX Horizon App.
The main studio (Studio A) is equipped with up to eight studio cameras, graphics capabilities, wired and wireless industry-grade microphone systems, teleprompting, computer-to-video conversion (29.97 mp4, H.264), green screen functionality, and livestreaming solutions. Mirroring these capabilities, the boardroom studio (Studio B) serves as the central hub for facilitating and streaming live Board meetings and workshops.
Our 4K modular mobile rigs provide efficient production solutions for on-location shoots, documentary-style interviews, short-form content, and informational programming. In addition, our post-production facilities support the creation of compelling, award-winning visual content designed to engage and inform.
Mobile Production
Our mobile television production vehicle has the capability of recording in digital video with four cameras. Media Services -WLX-Horizon regularly records St. Lucie Public School Board Meetings utilizing our mobile vehicle.
Student Interns
Throughout the regular school year serious television production students are selected to work at Media Services – WLX-Horizon. Interns provide assistance in the studio and with the mobile television production truck.
School Report
School Report is a 90 minute weekly television program featuring classroom lessons, student work, school awards, and other school activities. Classroom teachers may contact us to schedule Media Services staff for recording in their classroom. A school may submit a video of a school activity to Media Services for airing on School Report.
Requirements
- Get your principal’s permission to submit a program
- Check to make sure children may be photographed (this information can be obtained from a child’s school registration form, if not available use the SLC Education Channel’s Talent Release Form
- Send us a written list of credits and any editing instructions
Copyright considerations
- Do not include copyrighted materials, i.e.: photographs from the internet. Use original student work: their own stories, their drawings, their science experiments, their projects in their own words
- For school musical performances, we will need the title, artist or composer, and recording company for each song included in the performance. We will research the copyright holder to see if our licensing covers presentation on the district television channel. Please be aware that school musical performances with copyrighted music will not appear on the district web site