WUSF
WUSF-TV | |
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Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida | |
Branding | WUSF 16 |
Slogan | Watch and Learn Watch Listen Learn |
Channels | Analog: 16 (UHF) Digital: 34 (UHF) |
Affiliations | PBS |
Owner | University of South Florida |
Founded | September 12, 1966 |
Call letters meaning | W University of South Florida |
Former affiliations | NET (1966-1970) |
Transmitter Power | 1620 kW (analog) 475 kW (digital) |
Height | 308 m (analog) 453 m (digital) |
Facility ID | 69338 |
Transmitter Coordinates | |
Website | www.wusf.usf.edu |
WUSF is the callsign of both an National Public Radio-member radio station (WUSF-FM frequency 89.7 FM) and a PBS member television station (WUSF-TV analog channel 16 and digital channel 34) in Tampa, Florida. Both are owned by the University of South Florida. WUSF-FM signed on in 1963, seven years after USF's founding in 1956. WUSF-TV followed in 1966.
In 2003, WUSF-FM became the first radio station in the United States to air all of its programming exclusively in digital format. Since then, the television station has also switched to high-definition programming.
WUSF-TV's main rival for viewers is WEDU, one of the highest-rated public television stations in the country. However, due to its ties with USF, most of WUSF's programming is educational in nature -- especially telecourses, which WUSF shows during the afternoon and late-night hours. WUSF also known for showing a wide variety of home improvement programming, such as "Home Time", during the late 1980s and 1990s that WEDU did not reguarly program.
Other pictures
The new WUSF-TV complex, completed in 2001. |
External links
- WUSF site
- WUSF 89.7
- WUSF TV-16
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WUSF-TV
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WUSF
- Radio Locator information on WUSF
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WPBT 2 (Miami) - WEDU 3 (Tampa) - WUFT 5 (Gainesville) - WJCT 7 (Jacksonville) - WLUF-LP 10 (Gainesville) - WFSU 11 / WFSG 56 (Tallahassee / Panama City) - WCEU 15 (Daytona Beach) - WUSF 16 (Tampa) - WLRN 17 (Miami) - WSRE 23 (Pensacola) - WMFE 24 (Orlando) - WGCU 30 (Fort Myers) - WXEL 42 (West Palm Beach) - WBCC 68 / BPS-TV 68.3 (Cocoa / Viera) |
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, Religious, Spanish and Other stations in the state of Florida |
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Stations | Ft. Myers WGCU · Ft. Pierce WQCS · Gainesville WUFT · Inverness WJUF · Jacksonville WJCT · Melbourne WFIT · Miami WLRN · Orlando WMFE · Orlando WUCF · Panama City WFSW · Panama City WKGC · Pensacola WUWF · Tallahassee WFSU/WFSQ · Tampa WMNF · Tampa WUSF · W. Palm Beach WXEL |
See also List of NPR stations |