Media Services – WLX-Horizon

WLX-Horizon broadcasts instructional television programming, school board meetings, and local shows about schools throughout the county, reaching homes and businesses 24 hours a day, every day across several platforms to ensure wide accessibility.

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.

The District Marquee features announces upcoming school and community events, and broadcasts district-wide announcements, offering a convenient way for residents to stay informed about local activities.

Schools and community groups may use this channel to promote upcoming events on their campuses and around St. Lucie County.

Studio Production

Media Services – WLX-Horizon accommodates prerecording of television shows in its 30′ x 50′ studio. This area includes audience seating for guests who can become part of the production. Shows can be sent out live over a house feed to Comcast channels 13 and 19 and District Wireless channel 36. Production capabilities of the main studio include up to 8 studio cameras, graphics, wired and wireless microphone systems, teleprompting, computer to video conversion, and feeds from satellite receivers.

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 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