WPAN (channel 53) is a television station licensed to Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States, and also serving Pensacola.
The Fort Walton Beach Broadcasting Company applied in 1982 for a new television station on channel 53 to serve that city,[3] a plan that had been gestating since 1980.
[9] However, Fort Walton Beach could not operate the station from a financial standpoint, and it closed at midnight on November 16, 1986; one minority partner noted they simply could not sell enough advertising.
[18] Since the station needed to move to channel 21 as part of the FCC repack, it opted to construct a new tower in Molino to offer market-wide coverage for the first time.
The translator was sold to Word of Life Community Church in Chickasaw, Alabama, before going off the air for good to make way for the digital signal of WFGX.