WUCF-FM 89.9 is a listener-supported radio station

Radio station

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 of the University of Central Florida

University of Central Florida

The University of Central Florida, commonly referred to as UCF, is a metropolitan public research university located in Orlando, Florida, United States...

 in Orlando

Orlando, Florida

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, USA

United States

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. The station is one of Central Florida's

Central Florida

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 two NPR

NPR

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 member stations

Affiliate

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, along with WMFE-FM

WMFE-FM

WMFE-FM is a public radio station in Orlando, Florida, owned by Community Communications, Inc., the owners of WMFE-TV.The station signed on in 1980 playing a mix of public radio news/talk, jazz, and classical music, the jazz music was dropped in 1983...

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WUCF-FM is co-owned with WUCF-TV by the University of Central Florida, and is a sister station of WBCC

WBCC

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, which is a partnership between UCF and Brevard Community College

Brevard Community College

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Programming

The station broadcasts a 24-hour schedule of jazz and blues music along with news programming from broadcast studios on the main campus of UCF. The station is a part of the UCF College of Sciences'

University of Central Florida College of Sciences

The UCF College of Sciences is the largest academic college of the University of Central Florida located in Orlando, Florida, USA. The dean of the college is Michael Johnson, Ph.D....

 Nicholson School of Communication, and employs several students of the university.

The station has also been used to broadcast local events, such as the January 1, 2010 Outback Bowl, between the Auburn Tigers and Northwestern University.