About Connect
An exciting multimedia initiative designed to give Southwest Floridians a dynamic place to explore ways to connect within the region’s diverse and ever-evolving communities. The project spotlights the following ways to connect:
- through the arts
- by volunteering
- by living green
- through wellness
- by exploring our region
- through grassroots activism
- through continual learning
WGCU-TV
- features a half-hour television show the first three weekends of every month
- spotlights inspiring examples of Southwest Florida’s unique people, places, organizations and opportunities
WGCU/WMKO-FM
- features a relevant topic from the week’s television show and welcomes audience input on its award-winning, live, call-in talk show, Gulf Coast Live! at noon the first three Mondays of every month
wgcu.org
- serves as an archive for all of the television and radio segments and as a place for further online discussions
- invites the public to submit ideas for future program topics and to share the ways they personally Connect!
- features a repository of video, audio, and web-based information that will be accessible twenty-four hours a day…by anyone throughout the world.
Communities Served:
ALVA, ARCADIA, BOCA GRANDE, BOKEELIA, BONITA SPRINGS, BUCKINGHAM, CABBAGE KEY, CAPE CORAL, CAPE HAZE, CAPTIVA, CAYO COSTA, CHOKOLOSKEE, CLEWISTON, ENGLEWOOD, ESTERO, EVERGLADES CITY, FORT MYERS, FORT MYERS BEACH, GASPARILLA ISLAND, GOLDEN GATE, GOODLAND, IMMOKALEE, LABELLE, LEHIGH ACRES, LONGBOAT KEY, MARCO ISLAND, MATLACHA, MOORE HAVEN, NAPLES, NORTH CAPTIVA, NORTHPORT, PINE ISLAND, PLACIDA, PORT CHARLOTTE, PUNTA GORDA, ROTONDA WEST, SAN CARLOS PARK, SANIBEL ISLAND, SARASOTA, SEBRING, ST. JAMES CITY, USEPPA ISLAND, VENICE: