USF 2005-2006 Undergraduate Catalog - Pages 62-63
WUSF-TV (Channel 16, Tampa) is a noncommercial educational television station serving the communities of the Tampa Bay region as an important outreach arm of the University. One of the most watched public TV stations in Florida, WUSF-TV provides high-quality educational, instructional, informational, cultural, and public affairs television programming and services and broadcasts its programs in analog and digital TV. The station works closely with the School of Mass Communications to provide students with practicum experience. From its new state of the art facility, it serves viewers in the greater Tampa/St. Petersburg/Sarasota areas including Polk, Pasco, and Hernando Counties, as well as USF faculty, staff, students, and other educational agencies. It also provides extensive production and multi-media services to USF academic and support services units including telecourses, training videos, and DVD projects as well as to corporate clients. The station is a member of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA), Florida Public Broadcasting Service Inc. (FPBS), and the American Public Television Station Inc. (APTS). WUSF-TV is a charter member of the Program Resources Group Inc. (PRG).
WUSF (FM) 89.7 MHz (WUSF 89.7, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater and Sarasota) is a listener supported public radio station that is well known for providing quality in-depth news, classical music, jazz and entertainment programs for the 21st largest radio market in the country. It is the second most listened-to public radio station in Florida and broadcasts in analog and HD radio. WUSF 89.7 features NPR signature programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered; airs 74 hours of jazz each week overnight and provides entertaining programs such as Car Talk, A Prairie Home Companion, Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me and This American Life. WUSF 89.7 produces The University Beat, a program devoted to showcasing outreach efforts of the University of South Florida, and Gulf Coast Showcase, which focuses on the arts community and broadcasts locally recorded concerts from organizations such as the Florida Orchestra and La Musica of Sarasota. Live performances and interviews are regularly aired from the WUSF Performance Studio with some of the most talented national and local classical and jazz musicians in our area. Over 3.5 million people live within the coverage area which extends north to Crystal River, south to Venice and east to Winter Haven. The station provides production services, studio rental and recording services to the USF community and corporate clients.
The WUSF Radio Reading Service (RRS) improves the lives of listeners who have severely-impaired vision and other disabilities by broadcasting readings of newspapers, magazines and shopping ads. The RRS can be heard 24 hours a day via special receivers that pick up the sub-carrier frequency of WUSF 89.7. These receivers are loaned to qualified listeners. The WUSF-RRS can also be heard on WUSF-TV/Channel 16’s Secondary Audio Program (SAP) channel. More than 200 volunteers read live and record from studios in Tampa and at the Sarasota Opera House.
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Effective Date: Semester I, 2005
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