About WGCU

WGCU Public Media provides informative, entertaining, family-oriented programming for Southwest Floridians since 1983.

Mission Statement

• To engage the minds and enhance the lives of the people of Southwest Florida
• To create a well-informed and appropriately involved citizenry
• To provide vital and vibrant information to people who want to know more…do more…be more.
• To motivate our diverse Southwest Florida citizens to become engaged in community activities, in improving the quality of life for self and others, and in strengthening the social, democratic, and cultural health of our region.

WGCU History

WGCU Public Media…a comprehensive media enterprise, 20 years in the making!

From 1983 until 1996, this region’s public television and radio licenses were held and managed by a state university 200 miles away in Tampa, Florida.

Finally, in 1996, the broadcast licenses were transferred to Florida Gulf Coast University, a new public university that was being built to serve Southwest Florida’s Gulf and Everglades region. The stations’ call letters were changed to WGCU-TV/FM, and a new state-of-the-art broadcast facility was built as part of the new university’s campus.

Since the creation of WGCU in 1996, we have been working hard to fulfil and further the mission of public broadcasting throughout Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hendry, Lee and Sarasota counties.

As a result, we recreated our joint operations as WGCU Public Media... a comprehensive media enterprise that provides Southwest Florida with:

• National public television and radio programming that informs, educates, entertains, and enriches;
• Locally produced TV/FM programs focusing on this region’s cultural arts, wellness concerns, environmental topics and issues, communities and Southwest Florida history;
• Numerous community outreach projects, including Florida Landscape, Curious Kids Club, WGCU Renaissance Academy, and our Radio Reading Service for persons with visual disabilities;
• www.wgcu.org, an information-rich website with programming information and Southwest Florida news, history, arts, nature, kids, wellness and communities. It also serves as a means of accessing archives of our local TV and FM programs, magazine articles, and links to national video and audio files;
• Expressions, a graphically exquisite monthly member magazine, filled with information on cultural events, the environment, interesting and relevant essays, poetry, and detailed radio and television program information.

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Download Form 388 Quarter 1 2008