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Full-power digital · channel 31 · FORT MYERS, FL
| Facility ID | 22093 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | FORT MYERS BROADCASTING COMPANY |
| Community of licence | FORT MYERS, FL
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 26.80078, -81.76231 |
| Effective radiated power | 793 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 424.1 m above average terrain · directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | https://www.winknews.com |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 19
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| facility 795193 | 6 | LPD | |
| facility 795356 | 14 | LPD | |
| WBBH-TV | 15 | DTV | FORT MYERS-NAPLES HTV LLC |
| facility 794447 | 17 | LPD | |
| facility 793794 | 17 | LPD | |
| facility 795403 | 19 | LPD | |
| facility 793796 | 19 | LPD | |
| WGPS-LD | 21 | LPD | DTV AMERICA CORPORATION |
| WGCU | 22 | DTV | THE FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY BOARD |
| W24FP-D | 24 | LPD | |
| facility 793801 | 25 | LPD | |
| WLZE-LD | 27 | LPD | SUN BROADCASTING, INC. |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WINK-TV | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WINK-TV | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.