| City of license | WGCU: Fort Myers, Florida |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Southwest Florida |
| Frequency | 90.1 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Repeaters | WMKO-FM 91.7, Marco Island |
| First air date | 1983 |
| Format | News/talk/jazz (classical music on HD2) |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 248 meters |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 69042 |
| Callsign meaning | W Gulf Coast University |
| Former callsigns | WSFP-FM (1983-1996) |
| Affiliations | NPR |
| Owner | Florida Gulf Coast University |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.wgcu.org |
WGCU-FM (90.1 FM) is an NPR-member radio station. Licensed to Fort Myers, Florida, USA, the station is owned by Florida Gulf Coast University.
WGCU's schedule consists of jazz and NPR news and talk. WGCU-FM's programming is simulcast on 'WMKO FM 91.7, a full-time station licensed to Marco Island to serve the Naples area.
WGCU-FM first signed on in 1983 as WSFP-FM, a station owned by the University of South Florida in Tampa, owners of public broadcasting stations WUSF FM and TV. At the time, Fort Myers / Naples was the only media market in Florida without any public broadcasting stations. WSFP-FM was largely a rebroadcast of WUSF-FM.
The broadcast license was transferred to the new Florida Gulf Coast University in 1996, while the finishing touches were being put on Florida's newest university. WSFP-FM changed its calls to WGCU-FM on June 13, 1997, two months before FGCU opened.
Broadcasting from its transmitter site in southern Charlotte County, WGCU-FM's signal is barely listenable in Naples, though its grade-B signal reaches much of northern Collier County. Soon after FGCU opened, it requested funding for a second station to serve the Naples area. WMKO signed on for the first time in 1999.
In 2009, WGCU moved its classical music programming to a 24/7 feed on its digital subchannel.
WGCU is also referenced for hurricane information on signs across southwest Florida.
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