Licensed to Fort Myers, it is owned by Florida Gulf Coast University with studios along FGCU Boulevard, on campus.

WGCU also operates WMKO 91.7, a full-time simulcast station licensed to Marco Island to serve the Naples area.

Programs from NPR and other public radio networks include Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Fresh Air, 1A, Here and Now and Marketplace.

They include Bullseye, The Moth Radio Hour, This American Life, Radiolab, Milk Street Radio, To the Best of Our Knowledge, Travel with Rick Steves, The Splendid Table, On The Media, Science Friday, Latino USA, Reveal, Snap Judgement, Code Switch, Living on Earth and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

At the time, Fort Myers - Naples was the only media market in Florida without any public broadcasting stations of its own.

WSFP-FM and WSFP-TV changed their call letters to WGCU-FM and WGCU (TV) on June 13, 1997, just weeks before students would arrive.

For its first 13 years as a locally focused station, WGCU-FM aired a mix of NPR news programs and classical music.

At that point, WGCU-FM added an HD3 subchannel with classical music programming to fill the gap left by the end of WNPS.