The new WUSF-TV complex, completed in 2001.

WUSF (call letters stand for W-University-of-South-Florida) is home to both an NPR-affiliated public radio station (frequency 89.7 FM), on the air since 1963, and a PBS affiliate (analog channel 16), which has broadcast since 1969. Both the radio and television complexes are located at the University of South Florida in north Tampa. 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ... Radio transmission diagram and electromagnetic waves Radio is a technology that allows the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of light. ... The abbreviations FM, Fm, and fm may refer to: Electrical engineering Frequency modulation (FM) and its most common applications: FM radio, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers Science Femtometre (fm), an SI measure of length... Events January-February January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. ... PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... University of South Florida The University of South Florida, or USF, is a public university located in Tampa, Florida, with branch campuses in St. ... Tampas skyline For alternate meanings, see Tampa (disambiguation) Tampa is a city located in Hillsborough County on the west coast of Florida. ...

In 2003, WUSF-FM became the first radio station in the United States to air all of its programming exclusively in digital format. Since then, the television station has also switched to high definition programming. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ... A digital system is one that uses discrete values rather than a continuous spectrum of values: compare analog. ... When used as a specific technical term used to distinguish from standard definition television in the context of High Definition Television (HDTV) the term high definition has become associated with a particular set of technical specifications or with the values of certain parameters within such specifications. ...

WUSF's main rival for viewers is Tampa public television station WEDU. WEDU (the call letters short for EDUcation) is a PBS station, serving Tampa and Saint Petersburg, Florida. ...

External links

• WUSF site (http://www.wusf.usf.edu/index.cfm)
• WUSF 89.7 (http://www.wusf.usf.edu/WUSF-FM/programming/FM_Classical_TVLk.cfm)
• WUSF TV-16 (http://www.wusf.usf.edu/WUSF-TV/index.cfm)