WUFT (TV)

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WUFT
File:Wuft2011.jpg
Gainesville, Florida
United States
Branding WUFT-TV
"Florida's 5"
Channels Digital: 36 (UHF)
Virtual: 5 (PSIP)
Subchannels 5.1 PBS
5.2 The Florida Channel/Create
5.3 World
Affiliations PBS (since 1970)
Owner University of Florida
(Board of Trustees, University of Florida)
First air date November 17, 1958; 65 years ago (1958-11-17)
Call letters' meaning University of
Florida
Television
Sister station(s) WUFT-FM
WRUF (AM)
WRUF-FM
WRUF-LD
Former channel number(s) Analog: 5 (1958-2009)
Former affiliations NET (1958-1970)
Transmitter power 1000 kW
Height 263 m
Facility ID 69440
Transmitter coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.wuft.org/

WUFT channel 5 is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member Public television station owned by the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

History

WUFT first signed on the air November 17, 1958; the Gainesville television market is unique in that a public television station is the market's oldest television station (Gainesville's first commercial television station, WCJB-TV, did not sign on until 1971). It serves a 16-county area which includes the cities of Gainesville and Ocala, and is also available on cable in Jacksonville.

Newscasts

WUFT-TV broadcasts local newscasts staffed and produced by students in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. WUFT-TV broadcasts two main newscasts, along with a variety of special reports and half-hour specials. "First Edition", currently a six-minute newscast, airs weekdays at noontime for 100 shows per year. "First at Five" (the main newscast, formerly known as "WUFT News", "Report 5" and "Evening News") is a half-hour weekday newscast at 5:00pm which airs 200+ days per year. Starting in the Spring of 2014, WUFT-TV added a 6:00pm newscast, that is also thirty minutes long.

WUFT rebranded in August 2010, calling itself "Florida's 5".

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[1]
5.1 1080i 16:9 WUFT-HD Main WUFT programming / PBS
5.2 480i 4:3 WUFT-D2 The Florida Channel (6 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday)
Create (6 p.m.-6 a.m. Monday-Friday and all day Saturdays and Sundays)
5.3 WUFT-D3 World

Analog-to-digital conversion

WUFT discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 36.[2] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 5.

References

  1. RabbitEars TV Query for WUFT
  2. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
File:WUFT.jpg
On the set of News 5 (note previous logo)

http://www.wuft.org/news/first-at-five/

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