WGCU – WGCU-FM

WGCU TV 31 is a PBS-member TV station in Fort Myers, Florida, owned and operated by Florida Gulf Coast University. The station calls itself "TV 3", as it is located on channel 3 on most cable TV systems in the area.WGCU television first signed on in 1983 as WSFP-TV. The station was 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. Area cable systems usually piped in WEDU in Tampa or WPBT in Miami, depending on the location. WSFP-TV was a separate station from WUSF-TV, broadcasting first-run programming from PBS.