WUSF-TV

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WUSF-TV
Image:WUSF (FM) logo.jpg
Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida
Slogan Watch and Learn
Watch Listen Learn
Channels Analog: 16 (UHF)

Digital: 34 (UHF)
Affiliations PBS
Owner University of South Florida
First air date September 12, 1966
Call letters’ meaning 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 27°50′51.5″N, 82°15′49.4″W
Website www.wusf.usf.edu

WUSF-TV is a PBS member television station in Tampa, Florida, broadcasting on analog channel 16 and digital channel 34. Owned by the University of South Florida, WUSF-TV signed on in 1966.

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 regularly program.

WUSF is not available on cable in some parts of the market, including southern Sarasota County, where it is not on Comcast's Venice headend.

[edit] Digital television

WUSF's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Programming
16.1 Main WUSF programming
16.2 Annenberg Channel
16.3 Create
16.4 Florida Knowledge Network (Weekdays 6AM to 6PM only)

[edit] Photos

The new WUSF-TV complex, completed in 2001.

[edit] External links


University of South Florida  v • d • e 

Campus Locations

University of South Florida • University of South Florida Lakeland • University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee • University of South Florida St. Petersburg

History

USF History • USFL History • USFSM History • USFSP History

People

List of University of South Florida alumni • John S. Allen • Betty Castor • Judy Genshaft • W. Reece Smith Jr. • Karen A. White

Athletics

Herd of Thunder • Rocky the Bull • South Florida Bulls • The War on I-4 • USF Sailing Team

Media

The Crow’s Nest • The Oracle • WBUL • WUSF (FM) • WUSF-TV

Facilities

USF Athletic Facility • University of South Florida Botanical Gardens • USF Soccer Stadium • USF Sun Dome

Related

New College of Florida • Phi Alpha Theta • The Historian
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Broadcast television in the Tampa / St. Petersburg / Sarasota market  (Nielsen DMA #13)
Local stations

WEDU 3 (PBS) · WFLA 8 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) · WTSP 10 (CBS) · WTVT 13 (Fox) · WPDS-LP 14 (Edu.) · W15CM 15 (AS) · WUSF 16 (PBS) · WSVT-CA 18 (DS) · WARP-CA 20 (MTV2) · WCLF 22 (CTN) · WXAX-LP 26 (AZA) · WFTS 28 (ABC, AccuWX TV on DT2) · WTAM-LP 30 (Multimedios) · WMOR 32 (Ind) · W33CC 33 (HSN) · WSPF-CA 35 (St. Pete city access) · W36CO (TBN) WTTA 38 (MNTV) · W43CE 43 (unknown) · WTOG 44 (The CW) · WVEA-LP 46 (HSN) · WZRA-CA 48 (Ethnic/A1/NTV/CTV/DW) · WRMD-CA 49 (TEL) · WFTT 50 (TFU) · W56EB 56 (TBN) · WVEA 62 (UNI, LATV on DT2) · WXPX 66 (ION)
Stations in
outlying areas

WLWA-LP 14 (Ind/Rel) · WHRT-CA 17 (Ind) · WWSB 40 (ABC) · WYKE-LP 47 (FN) · W48CN 48 (TBN) · W60CE 60 (TBN)
Local cable
channels
Significantly Viewed
Out-of-Market
Stations

Reception may vary by geographical location
 Fort Myers: WINK 11 (CBS) · WFTX 36 (Fox)
Orlando: WKMG 6 (CBS) · WFTV 9 (ABC) · WOFL 35 (Fox)
Gainesville: WUFT 5 (PBS)
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PBS Member Stations in the state of Florida
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, Religious, Spanish and Other stations in the state of Florida