 Its main rival was WEDU, which has long been one of the highest-rated public television stations in the country.However, due to its ties with the university, most of WUSF's programming was educational in nature—including distance learning, which WUSF aired during the afternoon and late-night hours.WUSF was also known for showing a wide variety of home improvement programming, such as "Hometime," during the late 1980s and 1990s that WEDU did not regularly program.