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| Branding | WRUF-TV Gator Weather |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | 10.1:Independent/24-hour Weather |
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| WRUF,WRUF-FM,WUFT,WUFT-FM | |
| History | |
First air date | November 1989 (1989-11) |
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Former channel numbers | Analog: 10 (VHF, 1989–2010) |
Call sign meaning | "Radio from the University of Florida" (from sister radio stationsWRUF-AM-FM) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 4200 |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 0.3kW |
| HAAT | 261.4 m (858 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°42′34.9″N82°23′39.4″W / 29.709694°N 82.394278°W /29.709694; -82.394278 (WRUF-LD) |
| Links | |
Public license information | LMS |
| Website | ufweather |
WRUF-LD (channel 10) is alow-powerindependent television station inGainesville, Florida, United States. It is owned by theUniversity of Florida alongsidePBS memberWUFT (channel 5),NPR memberWUFT-FM (89.1), andcommercial radio stationsWRUF (850 AM) andWRUF-FM (103.7). The five stations share studios at Weimer Hall on the University's campus; WRUF-LD's transmitter is located on Northwest 53rd Avenue in Gainesville.
Oncable, WRUF-LD can be seen onCox Communications channel 6 in Gainesville; this is reflected in the station's logo. It is also carried on Cox channel 20 inOcala. Most of WRUF-LD's programming is devoted to local weather, with some news and sports coverage, as well as UF features and happenings.[2]
The station was granted aconstruction permit foranalog broadcasting on VHF channel 10 on July 29, 1988 (after having applied for the channel in 1981),[3] and was issued thecall sign W10BR;[4] it filed for a license to cover on November 27, 1989, which was granted on December 29.[5] The callsign was changed to WLUF-LP in 1995.[4] As WLUF, it served as a secondary PBS member station,[2] broadcasting mainly repeats of PBS and WUFT programming, plustelecourses for UF students. The station converted to digital broadcasting, becoming WLUF-LD, in 2010.[4]
The station was relaunched as a commercially based 24-hour weather channel on June 1, 2011; this came after state funding to Florida's public radio and television stations wasvetoed byGovernorRick Scott in May.[2] The call letters had been changed to WRUF-LD, matching the University of Florida's commercially operated WRUF radio stations (850 AM, and103.7 FM), on November 19, 2010.[4] Regular WLUF programming ended on May 23, 2011, with WRUF-LD carryingNASA TV's coverage ofthe final mission ofSpace ShuttleEndeavour in the interim.[6]
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| 10.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WRUF | Main WRUF-LD programming |
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