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WINK-TV, virtual channel 11 (UHF digital channel 50), is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Fort Myers, Florida, United States. The station is owned by the Fort Myers Broadcasting Company. WINK's transmitter is located north of Fort Myers Shores. The station broadcasts on Comcast channel 5 and in high definition on digital channel 433. ==History== The station began broadcasting on March 23, 1954 as part of the Fort Myers Broadcasting Company. Its sister stations were WINK radio (1240 AM, now WJUA at 1200 AM; and 96.9 FM). WINK-TV was the first television station in Southwest Florida and is the fifth-oldest surviving station in the state. WINK-TV gained the only VHF license allocated to its area. It carried programming from NBC, ABC and DuMont. WINK-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 11, at noon on February 17, 2009. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 9. The station's digital signal relocated to UHF channel 50 in mid-2011〔http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1353988&Service=DT&Form_id=301&Facility_id=22093〕 using PSIP to display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 11. WINK lost its DuMont affiliation in 1956 and its NBC programming in December 1968 but continued to share ABC programming with WBBH until August 1974. The station broadcast PBS's ''Sesame Street'' on weekday mornings until 1978. On October 20, 2007, WINK-TV became the first television station in Southwest Florida to begin broadcasting in high definition. In January 2008, several programming changes were made on WINK-TV. It began airing ''The Early Show'' (which was replaced by ''CBS This Morning'' in January 2012) in its entirety after CBS began requiring all of its affiliates to air the full two-hour broadcast of the program. On May 26, 2011, WINK-TV debuted an hour-long 4 p.m. newscast, one of many added on television stations around the United States on that date to replace ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', which ended its 25-year run the day before.〔(In Fort Myers, WINK Replacing ‘Oprah’ with Newscast ), ''Media Bistro'', April 29, 2011.〕 On June 11, 2011 WINK-TV debuted a 90-minute morning newscast on Saturday and Sunday mornings.〔(On the Heels of New Afternoon Newscast, WINK Prepares Weekend Expansion ), ''Media Bistro'', May 24, 2011.〕 WINK-TV also added a half-hour late morning newscast at 10 a.m. on September 6, 2011.〔(WINK Adds 10 a.m. Newscast to Daily Programming ), "Media Bistro", August 22, 2011.〕 On September 16, 2013, WINK-TV expanded its weekday morning newscast a half-hour early to 4:30 a.m. and expanded the extension of that program on WXCW by one hour to 7 to 10 a.m.〔(More News on WINK... ) ''Florida NewsCenter'', September 11, 2013.〕 In January of 2015, WINK-TV expanded the 6:30 p.m. newscast to weekends on WXCW.〔(WINK's 6:30 p.m. newscast expands to weekends on WXCW. ) ''The Changing Newscasts Blog'', January 28th, 2015.〕 In August 2015, a former WINK-TV investigative reporter and weekend news anchor filed a lawsuit against the station's owner, Fort Myers Broadcasting Company, alleging he was fired for refusing to participate in an illegal cover-up. A documentary film about the lawsuit titled "Code of Ethics" is currently in production. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WINK-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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