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Shop WGCU, Support Your Community The WGCU Web Store Quality Programming, DVDs, CDs, & Much More About WGCU Mission Statement The Mission of WGCU Public Media is to provide media content and services that enrich the lives of our citizens and strengthen the social, democratic, and cultural health of our region by fostering personal growth, celebrating human diversity and motivating community engagement. WGCU History WGCU Public Media and its predecessor WSFP-TV/FM have served Southwest Florida with the finest in public television and radio programming for over 25 years. Originally a satellite operation licensed to the University of South Florida, WGCU Public Media became an independent entity in 1996 when the broadcast licenses were transferred to Florida Gulf Coast University, a new public university that was being built to serve the Southwest Florida region. The stations' call letters were changed to WGCU-TV/FM, and a new state-of-the-art broadcast facility was built as part of the new university's campus. Since that time we have dramatically strengthened and expanded the physical infrastructure, the financial base and the media services that now comprise WGCU Public Media: expanded our service by providing up to four distinct digital television programming streams -- including a full time High Definition channel