WUCF-TV
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Orlando, Florida United States |
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| Branding | WUCF |
| Slogan | Central Florida's PBS |
| Channels |
Digital: 23 (UHF) Virtual: 24 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | PBS (since 2012; also from 1970–2011) |
| Owner | University of Central Florida |
| First air date |
Station: March 15, 1965 WUCF intellectual unit: July 1, 2011 (via WBCC) |
| Call letters' meaning |
University of Central Florida |
| Sister station(s) | WUCF-FM |
| Former callsigns | WMFE-TV (1965–2012) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 24 (UHF, 1965–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
NET (1965–1970) V-me (2011–2012) |
| Transmitter power | 950 kw |
| Height | 380.1 m |
| Facility ID | 12855 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 28°36′8″N 81°5′37″W / 28.60222°N 81.09361°WCoordinates: 28°36′8″N 81°5′37″W / 28.60222°N 81.09361°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.wucftv.org |
WUCF-TV is a Public Broadcasting Service television station serving the Central Florida television market. The station, operated by the University of Central Florida, is the region's sole PBS member station, reaching an estimated population of 4.6 million people in its aerial viewing area.
Channel 24 had previously been WMFE-TV, the main ETV and PBS outlet for Central Florida from 1965 to 2011, when then-owner Community Communications dropped PBS programming in preparation for a sale. In response, the University of Central Florida (UCF) and Brevard Community College (BCC) partnered to approve the creation of WUCF-TV, a new PBS station to serve the Central Florida market. The station operated on the primary digital channel of BCC's PBS station, WBCC. Days after the agreement was reached to replace WMFE, Daytona Beach PBS station WDSC-TV announced that it would cease its affiliation with PBS due to financial hardship, leaving WUCF as the only PBS affiliate in Central Florida. In 2012, PBS programming returned to WMFE, as the station's ownership announced that it would sell all of the station's assets, except the studio facilities, to UCF for $3.3 million. In September 2012, WMFE was relaunched as WUCF following approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
WUCF-TV is co-owned with WUCF-FM, Central Florida's secondary National Public Radio station, by the University of Central Florida.
In 1963, the public school systems of Orange, Volusia, Lake, Osceola, Seminole, Brevard and Flagler counties formed Florida Central East Coast Educational Television with the goal of winning the license for channel 24. In the meantime, WDBO-TV (now WKMG-TV) and WLOF-TV (now WFTV) donated air time for educational Spanish-language and Florida history programs produced by the group.
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