![]() ![]() Since there were only 12 VHF channels available, there were limitations as to how closely the stations could be spaced.Īfter the FCC's Sixth Report and Order ended the license freeze and opened the UHF band in 1952, it devised a plan for allocating VHF licenses. The VHF bands were more desirable because they carried longer distances. In the early days of broadcast television, there were 12 VHF channels available and 69 UHF channels (later reduced to 55 in 1983). The station was a major beneficiary of a quirk in the FCC's plan for allocating stations. WUFT first signed on the air with instructional programming on November 17, 1958, becoming the third educational television station in 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). WUFT serves 16 counties in north-central Florida. The five stations share studios at Weimer Hall on the University's campus WUFT's transmitter is located on Northwest 53rd Avenue in Gainesville. It is owned by the University of Florida alongside low-power independent station WRUF-LD (channel 10), NPR member WUFT-FM (89.1), and commercial radio stations WRUF (850 AM) and WRUF-FM (103.7). WUFT (channel 5) is a PBS member television station in Gainesville, Florida, United States. Broadcast transmitter for WUFT in Gainesville, Florida in June 2018 ![]()
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