WUSF (89.7 FM) is the flagship National Public Radio member station in the Tampa Bay area. It is licensed to Tampa and owned by the University of South Florida. WUSF signed on in 1963, seven years after USF's founding in 1956. It joined NPR in 1976 and was the first public radio station in the country—and the first station of any kind in Florida—to launch HD radio. WUSF's current format features news and talk programming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, outsourced from NPR and other public radio production outfits. Its HD Radio feed features classical music from sister station WSMR.