WUFT (TV)

WUFT

Gainesville, Florida United States
Channels	Digital: 36 (UHF) Virtual: 5
Branding	PBS WUFT; WUFT News
Programming
Affiliations	5.1: PBS 5.2: Create 5.3: The Florida Channel
Ownership
Owner	University of Florida (Board of Trustees, University of Florida)
Sister stations	WUFT-FM, WRUF (AM), WRUF-FM, WRUF-LD
History
First air date	November 10, 1958 (66 years ago) (1958-11-10)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 5 (VHF, 1958–2009)
Former affiliations	NET (1958–1970)
Call sign meaning	University of Florida Television
Technical information[1]
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 / 29.709833; -82.394750 (WUFT)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.wuft.org

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).