About Connect
An exciting multimedia initiative designed to give Southwest Floridians a dynamic place to explore ways to connect within the region’s diverse and ever-evolving communities. Through Connect!, the outdated concept of a passive audience will be transformed into an interactive, two-way street, where WGCU invites your participation. The project will spotlight the following ways to connect:
- through the cultural arts
- by volunteering
- by living green
- through wellness
- by exploring our region
- by starting a small business
- through political action
- through continual learning
A multimedia project designed to motivate new and longtime Southwest Floridians to become engaged in community activities, to improve the quality of life for themselves and others, and to strengthen the social, democratic, and cultural health of our region.
WGCU-TV
- will feature a weekly half-hour television show beginning in January 2008.
- will spotlight inspiring examples of Southwest Florida’s unique people, places, organizations and opportunities.
WGCU/WMKO-FM
- will feature a relevant topic from the week’s television show and welcome audience input on its award-winning, live, call-in talk show, Gulf Coast Live!
- will cover related topics through feature stories that will air during our popular NPR shows, Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
wgcu.org
- will serve as an archive for all of the television and radio segments and as a place for further online discussions.
- will invite the public to submit ideas for future program topics and to share the ways they personally Connect!
- will feature a repository of video, audio, and web-based information that will be accessible twenty-four hours a day…by anyone throughout the world. All materials will be available for downloading onto digital storage and playback devices.
- will welcome contributions of video, photographs and writings.
Expressions
- will feature creative and unusual angles on the topics covered in radio and television each month.
- will welcome audience submissions of photos and writings for possible publication.
Communities Served:
ALVA, ARCADIA, BOCA GRANDE, BOKEELIA, BONITA SPRINGS, BUCKINGHAM, CABBAGE KEY, CAPE CORAL, CAPE HAZE, CAPTIVA, CAYO COSTA, CHOKOLOSKEE, CLEWISTON, ENGLEWOOD, ESTERO, EVERGLADES CITY, FORT MYERS, FORT MYERS BEACH, GASPARILLA ISLAND, GOLDEN GATE, GOODLAND, IMMOKALEE, LABELLE, LEHIGH ACRES, LONGBOAT KEY, MARCO ISLAND, MATLACHA, MOORE HAVEN, NAPLES, NORTH CAPTIVA, NORTHPORT, PINE ISLAND, PLACIDA, PORT CHARLOTTE, PUNTA GORDA, ROTONDA WEST, SAN CARLOS PARK, SANIBEL ISLAND, SARASOTA, SEBRING, ST. JAMES CITY, USEPPA ISLAND, VENICE