WINK Fort Myers Back on Air

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Station hit by Ian is broadcasting from transmitter site

(Image credit: Lewis Cosby)

CBS affiliate WINK Fort Myers, Florida, was back on the air Friday night (Sept. 30) from its transmitter site two days after being knocked out by Hurricane Ian after a storm surge flooded its broadcast center.

That was according to the station.

The power went out to the station during a newscast Wednesday (Sept. 28), but the station's anchors and meteorologist briefly continued to stream the news over Facebook and provided updates on Facebook and Twitter.

Ian knocked out power to millions in Florida and is expected to have cost tens of billions of dollars in damage.

As of Friday, the FCC said six TV stations in Florida had reported being knocked off the air by the storm. according to its voluntary outage reporting system. ■

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.