WUFT (TV)
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| Channels | |
| Branding | PBS WUFT; WUFT News |
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| WUFT-FM, WRUF (AM), WRUF-FM, WRUF-LD | |
| History | |
First air date | November 10, 1958 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 5 (VHF, 1958–2009) |
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Call sign meaning | University of Florida Television |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 69440 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 263 m (863 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°42′35.4″N 82°23′41.1″W / 29.709833°N 82.394750°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
WUFT (channel 5) is a PBS member television station in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is owned by the University of Florida alongside low-power weather-formatted independent station WRUF-LD (channel 10), NPR member WUFT-FM (89.1), and commercial radio stations WRUF (850 AM) and WRUF-FM (103.7). The five stations share studios at Weimer Hall on the university's campus; WUFT's transmitter is located on Northwest 53rd Avenue in Gainesville.
WUFT serves 16 counties in north-central Florida. For decades, it has also been available on cable in Jacksonville, currently on Comcast Xfinity channel 25, providing a second choice for PBS programming alongside WJCT (which signed on two months before WUFT).