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WINK FT. MYERS LAUNCHES IN HOUSE WEATHER/NEWS SUB CHANNEL

gregg75

gregg75

I notified Media Matters about the subchannel weeks ago.

As I refreshed the tuner on my tv set about four weeks ago, I noticed
1) WINK finally moved from channel 9 to channel 50;
2) the subchannel (11.2).

I emailed them about the subchannel and speculated as to what Fort Myers Broadcasting was planning to launch on it. At first, it was a SD broadcast of WINK TV. Two weeks ago, I tuned in and discovered the format for the new channel. I was a bit disappointed because I was hoping for either an independently-run channel or the launch of one of several minor networks available.

Oh well...
 
Interestingly, Fort Myers has an all-news radio station simulcast patterned after WINK, and is one of the few sub-top 25 radio markets to have a round-the-clock news station.

At least the new subchannel is not a video simulcast of the radio station.
 
DToTheJ said:
Interestingly, Fort Myers has an all-news radio station simulcast patterned after WINK, and is one of the few sub-top 25 radio markets to have a round-the-clock news station.

At least the new subchannel is not a video simulcast of the radio station.
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Hopefully, it'll be a serious all-news station, and not looped audio of the latest TV newscast, just like it is for WNEM radio in Saginaw, Michigan, which is their radio extension for WNEM-TV:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNEM_(AM)

Also, who knows how WINK's all-news station's going to be -- in the Tampa Bay area, there were two attempts for all-news radio, both on the 620 dial -- WSUN in the late-1980s, and WSAA in the late-1990s (the latter being an audio simulcast of Bay News 9), but they both flopped.
 
Sub channels are quite cheap to operate. Throw in some paid commercials inserted in re-broadcast newscasts and they should make some money. News money is the lifeblood of most stations.

I think it's a win for the main channel also. They can now air something else other than constant local
newscasts.
 
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