WINK-TV

WINK-TV, virtual channel 11, is the CBS-affiliated television station for Southwest Florida that is licensed to Fort Myers. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 50 from a transmitter north of Fort Myers Shores near the Lee and Charlotte County line in Tuckers Corner, FL. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 5 and in high definition on digital channel 433. However, unlike other stations in the market, it does not identify itself on-air using its cable channel location. It is locally owned by the McBride family and their Fort Myers Broadcasting Company along with several radio stations. It has studios on Palm Beach Boulevard (SR 80) in Fort Myers.

Its coverage area includes Lee, Collier, Sarasota, Hendry, Glades, Charlotte, DeSoto, Highlands, and Hardee Counties. In the Tampa Bay market, WINK-TV is one of two Fort Myers stations carried by Comcast in Venice and Wauchula. It is the only Southwest Florida-based station on Comcast in Sebring. This is originally due in part because Tampa Bay's CBS affiliate WTSP had a signal that could not be seen that well in Sarasota, Hardee, and Highlands Counties (all part of the Tampa Bay DMA), at the time when that station's transmitter was in Holiday in the northern part of the Tampa Bay area (it had since relocated to Riverview in October 2011). In general, WINK-TV's aerial coverage area extends as far north as southern Polk County.