WUFT (TV)

WUFT (channel 5) is a PBS member television station in Gainesville, Florida, United States.

The five stations share studios at Weimer Hall on the university's campus; WUFT's transmitter is located on Northwest 53rd Avenue in Gainesville.

For decades, it has also been available on cable in Jacksonville, currently on Comcast Xfinity channel 25, providing a second choice for PBS programming alongside WJCT (which signed on two months before WUFT).

WUFT first signed on the air with instructional programming on November 10, 1958, becoming the third educational television station in Florida.

WUFT-TV broadcasts local newscasts staffed and produced by students in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications.

As part of the SAFER Act, WUFT kept its analog signal on the air until June 29 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters.

Broadcast transmitter for WUFT in Gainesville, Florida in June 2018
On the set of News 5 (note previous logo)