Owned by Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU), it is a sister station to NPR member WGCU-FM (90.1).

The two stations share studios on the FGCU campus in Fort Myers and transmitter facilities in unincorporated southern Charlotte County.

The Myra Janco Daniels Public Media Center, which houses the studios of WGCU radio and television, was completed on the FGCU campus in 1998.

The University of South Florida (USF) filed on February 21, 1978, for a construction permit to build a new public television station on channel 30 in Fort Myers.

[2] To this project was later added a radio station, both of which would be broadcast from a tower to be built in the Cecil M. Webb Wildlife Management Area in southern Charlotte County.

[5] After delays in construction caused by the legal description of the deed to the tower site[6] and rainy weather,[7] WSFP-TV signed on on August 15, 1983, filling a void in national public television coverage.

[10] WSFP's television and radio debut coincided with an increasing presence of the University of South Florida in the Fort Myers area.

The move made WSFP-TV eligible for grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the state government as a full station with its own production facilities.

[21] When WSFP-TV moved into the new broadcast center in January 1998, it eliminated the 45-minute drive from the Bonita Springs studio to the master control facility at the transmitter site, necessary to play out recorded programs.