Fort Myers Broadcasting Co

Fort Myers Broadcasting Co

Southwest Florida broadcast media

Overview

Fort Myers Broadcasting Co is a regional television, radio, news, and digital media company. It produces and distributes local news, weather, sports, entertainment, advertising, and community programming across media channels. Its audiences include Southwest Florida viewers and listeners, while local businesses use its advertising and production capabilities. The company combines newsroom reporting with broadcast production, engineering, digital publishing, sales, creative services, traffic, and station operations. Work spans journalism, weather, production, digital, broadcast engineering, advertising sales, creative, and administration.

About Fort Myers Broadcasting Co

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Why Fort Myers Broadcasting Co is rated
C+
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated D+ on Differentiation

Industries

Entertainment

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Headquarters

Fort Myers, Florida

Founded

1939

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What believers are saying

  • July 29, 2026 ClimaVision radar plus WINK's dual-polarization system deepens weather moat.
  • August 2025 acquisitions added WJPT, WWCN, and WBCN, expanding local radio inventory.
  • March 3, 2026 Fox Florida carried WINK newscasts, extending reach without building a newsroom.

What critics are saying

  • March 30, 2026 lawsuit against Matt Devitt brings damages claims and injunction risk.
  • March 2026 WFTX shutdown and layoffs show integration strain and potential morale damage.
  • If WFTX distribution slips, Sun Broadcasting can unwind sharing and weaken WINK's expansion.

What makes Fort Myers Broadcasting Co unique

  • WINK Live Doppler 3X gives Southwest Florida proprietary weather coverage from Babcock Ranch.
  • Fort Myers Broadcasting controls WINK-TV, WINK-FM, WAVV, WTLQ, and newly acquired stations.
  • March 2026 WFTX sharing gives WINK news distribution across another major channel.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

Life Insurance

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

Company News

Yahoo Finance
Jun 15th, 2025
Southwest Florida Is Now Seeing Properties Languishing On The Market For Months — What’S Behind This Trend

The previously hot real estate market of southwest Florida has recently seen a worrying slowdown. Properties that would typically sell quickly are now sitting unsold for months, sparking concerns among homeowners and real estate professionals. Darleen Strange has been trying to sell her mother's home in Fort Myers since last November. “It makes me wonder, is it ever gonna happen?” she told WINK News. “It's been on the market for about 157 days. We've only had four people come look at it.” Data suggests the situation in southwest Florida may be an indicator of broader challenges in the real estate market across the state

PYMNTS
Sep 22nd, 2023
Starbucks Expands Pickup-Only Locations As Qsrs Adapt For Digital

As Starbucks rethinks its store concepts with an eye towards the restaurant industry’s digital future, the coffeehouse chain is reportedly opening its first in-airport pickup-only location. The restaurant is opening a location in Houston Texas’s George Bush International Airport that exclusively accepts digital orders for pickup, according to QSR Magazine. . Additionally, Wink News, a CBS affiliate in Southwest Florida, reported that coffeehouse giant has been approved to open its a drive-thru-only store in Fort Myers, Florida, believed to be the first such Starbucks location

Forbes
Jul 13th, 2023
Bloodied Butcher Who Launched Bow Like A Spear On Jan. 6 Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison

Topline. A bloodied rioter and professional butcher who participated in the January 6 U.S. Capitol attack has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for throwing a wooden bow like a spear at a police officer’s head and attacking other members of the police force—in one of the longest sentences for a January 6 rioter. Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they push barricades to storm the US . [+] Capitol in Washington D.C on January 6, 2021. - Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the a 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification

WINK News
Dec 23rd, 2022
Jewish Federation of Greater Naples celebrating Hanukkah

At the event, WINK News introduced the Collier County Sheriff, Kevin Rambosk to the stage.

NewscastStudio
Jun 21st, 2022
WINK Digital Media launches dual-polarization radar system

WINK News, serving Ft. Myers and Southwest Florida, has launched a new dual-polarization radar system.

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