WUCF-FM (89.9
MHz
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) is a listener-supported radio station of the
University of Central Florida
The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a public university, public research university with its main campus in unincorporated area, unincorporated Orange County, Florida, United States. It is part of the State University System of Florida. ...
in
Orlando, Florida
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, United States.
[http://wucf.org/aboutwucf.htm About WUCF-FM] The station is one of
Central Florida's two
NPR member stations, along with
WMFE-FM.
WUCF-FM is co-owned and operated by the University of Central Florida.
Programming
The station broadcasts a 24-hour schedule of jazz and blues music along with news from NPR at the top of each hour.
In addition to its own line-up of jazz programming blocks, the station airs
syndicated jazz music programming from National Public Radio and other distributors including ''
Jazz Inspired'', ''
Jazz Profiles'', ''JazzWorks'' and ''Jazz Night In America''. The station also airs reruns of news programs ''Metro Center Outlook'' and ''Global Perspectives'' from its sister channel
WUCF-TV. Since 2002, WUCF has hosted the syndicated
blues rock
Blues rock is a fusion music genre, genre and form of rock music, rock and blues music that relies on the chords/scales and instrumental improvisation of blues. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electri ...
program ''Smokestack Lightnin.
See also
*
List of jazz radio stations in the United States
References
External links
*
University of Central Florida
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Jazz radio stations in the United States
NPR member stations
Radio stations established in 1978
1978 establishments in Florida
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