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Fort Myers Broadcasting Company

Television station in Fort Myers, Florida

WINK-TV (channel 11) is a television station licensed to Fort Myers, Florida, United States, serving as the CBS and MyNetworkTV affiliate for Southwest Florida. It is owned by the McBride family and their Fort Myers Broadcasting Company and operated alongside Fox affiliate WFTX-TV (channel 36), CW affiliate WXCW (channel 46), low-power Univision affiliate WUVF-LD (channel 2), and low-power WANA-LD (channel 18).2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Mar 18, 1954Founded1
  • Industryradio broadcasting, terrestrial television1
  • HeadquartersFort Myers1

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WINK-TV (channel 11) is a television station licensed to Fort Myers, Florida, United States, serving as the CBS and MyNetworkTV affiliate for Southwest Florida. It is owned by the McBride family and their Fort Myers Broadcasting Company and operated alongside Fox affiliate WFTX-TV (channel 36), CW affiliate WXCW (channel 46), low-power Univision affiliate WUVF-LD (channel 2), and low-power WANA-LD (channel 18).2

Corporate structure

Fort Myers Broadcasting Company sits at the top of its group. 1 entity, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Fort Myers Broadcasting Company Fort Myers
    • WAVV Owned · Florida, United States
    • WINK-FM Owned · Florida, United States
    • WINK-TV Owned · United States
    • WJPT Owned · Florida, United States
    • WTLQ-FM Owned · Florida, United States
    • WWCN Owned · Florida, United States

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Fort Myers Broadcasting Company reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

  • WAVV
  • WINK-FM
  • WINK-TV
  • WJPT
  • WTLQ-FM
  • WWCN

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

Subsidiaries and ownership

Also owns

  • WAVV
  • WINK-FM
  • WINK-TV
  • WJPT
  • WTLQ-FM
  • WWCN

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. Mar 18, 1954Founded Founded1

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$2.1M 2020–2020
Money received by yearMoney received by year, 2020–2020: $2.1M in all. PPP loans $2.1M.$0$1M$2M$3M2020 · PPP loans: $2.1M2020
Figures by year
YearPPP loansTotal
2020$2.1M$2.1M

PPP loans

Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 and up, approved April 2020 to July 2021, from the SBA3. Matched to this company by name and state.

  1. Apr 28, 2020$2.1M PPP loan (first draw) from Bank of America, National Association3To FORT MYERS BROADCASTING COMPANY, Fort Myers FL; $2.1M forgiven Jun 16, 2021

Sources

The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.

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