WUFT, Gainesville WUCF-TV, virtual channel 24 (UHF digital channel 23), is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Orlando, Florida, United States and serving the Central Florida television market.
WSRE, Pensacola We have a report that shows you what to expect if you installed a TV within your home.. Owned by the University of Central Florida, it is the region's sole PBS member station, reaching an estimated population of 4.6 million people in its viewing area. Informing, inspiring and entertaining nearly 4 million viewers since 2011. In April 2012, WMFE ended the planned sale, saying "the current deal we had in place was being drawn out longer than we anticipated" and that "The market conditions have changed in a favorable way to be able to pursue other options for WMFE." WMFE-TV finally went on the air on March 15, 1965 from the campus of Mid Florida Tech. WUCF-TV is co-owned with WUCF-FM, Central Florida's secondary National Public Radio station, by the University of Central Florida. “We look forward to working with WUCF TV to offer the very best of national and locally produced content to the people of Orlando.”. — “American Masters: Inventing David Geffen” premieres at 8 p.m. Nov. 20.
The new owners planned to air Daystar programming, but also intended to partner with UCF to air educational programming. The schedule will include such curriculum-based series as SESAME STREET, CURIOUS GEORGE, DINOSAUR TRAIN and many others. Just a few days after WUCF TV launches, viewers will be able to watch America’s biggest and brightest birthday party at 8 p.m. July 4. “Serving our communities is a key component of our institution and our partnership’s mission,” Drake said.
The purchase of WMFE's license by UCF dissolved WUCF's partnership with BCC, and in November 2012, UCF completed the move of the WUCF-TV call letters and intellectual unit to the stronger channel 24. GREAT PERFORMANCES will air a production of Verdi’s “Rigoletto” starring tenor Placido Domingo at 9:30 p.m. July 15. WUCF is Central Florida Storytellers. In September 2012, WMFE was relaunched as WUCF following approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). On April 1, 2011, WMFE announced that it would sell the station due to these financial difficulties and "critical uncertainties in federal and state funding". With our viewers’ support, I know that WUCF TV will be a success.”. When news spread of the sale of WMFE in 2012, a campaign was undertaken by local residents and students at UCF to try to keep an active PBS station in the Orlando market. The new station became the Orlando market's only PBS station, as WDSC-TV in Daytona Beach left PBS on July 1, concurrent with WMFE's departure from PBS and the launch of WUCF. WUCF TV can be contacted at wucftv@ucf.edu or 1-855-423-9823 (WUCF). “We believe our new partnership channel, WUCF TV, will fulfill our mission by delivering programming to viewers that will educate, enlighten and inspire.”. TONIGHT on WUCF TV (Tuesday, May 12) 7 pm - PBS NewsHour 8 pm ... WUCF channels are currently OFF-AIR for many viewers. WEDU/WEDQ, Tampa © University of Central Florida, UCF News | Stories of Impact + Innovation | Orlando, FL, http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/Summer-Season-2011.aspx. More information about the partnership and its new high-definition channel is available on the WUCF TV website – www.wucftv.org – which launched today. The deal had foundered when the Federal Communications Commission questioned whether Lamb and the Daystar-aligned nonprofits were qualified to buy WMFE and another former PBS outlet, KDYW (formerly KWBU-TV) in Waco, Texas. The channel also will feature first-class local content about the Central Florida community. By Zenaida Kotala “WUCF TV is growing to better serve our community with programs that inform, inspire and entertain all of Central Florida,” said Grant J. Heston, associate vice president for Communications & Public Affairs at the University of Central Florida. Customers of Spectrum are still able to see WUCF channels due to a fiber connection.
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.
June 2, 2011. BCC has owned and operated a non-commercial television channel — WBCC — for more than two decades. Ken Burns’ latest film chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history with vivid interviews with 26 survivors of those hard times and dramatic, seldom-seen footage. We engage curiosity and learning through compelling content and community engagement. “In April, when WMFE-TV announced its affiliation with PBS would end as of June 30, we at UCF knew that Central Florida stood to lose a treasured community resource,” Hitt said.