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WFTX-TV
Fox television affiliate in Cape Coral, Florida, United States
WFTX-TV (channel 36, cable channel 4), branded as Fox Florida, is a television station licensed to Cape Coral, Florida, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for Southwest Florida. It is owned by Sun Broadcasting, which together with Fort Myers Broadcasting Company owns and operates CBS/MyNetworkTV affiliate WINK-TV (channel 11), CW affiliate WXCW (channel 46), and 12 local radio stations.
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The stations share studios on Corporate Lakes Drive in Gateway. WFTX-TV's transmitter is located northeast of Fort Myers near Babcock Ranch. Channel 36 went on the air on October 14, 1985, as the market's first independent station. It was founded by Family Group Broadcasting, which had previously built Tampa's WFTS-TV, and was sold within a year to Wabash Valley Broadcasting, an Indiana firm that expanded into TV station ownership in Florida. In 1987, it affiliated with Fox, and in 1993, it began airing local news programming. Wabash Valley sold its stations to Emmis Communications in 1998, marking that company's foray into television. Journal Broadcast Group acquired WFTX in 2005 and expanded the station's local news programming with a weekday morning newscast and additional evening news coverage. This continued under the E. W. Scripps Company, which acquired Journal in 2014.
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