WFTX-TV
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Cape Coral/Fort Myers/ Naples, Florida United States |
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| City | Cape Coral, Florida |
| Branding | Fox 4 (general) Fox 4 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Fox 4 In Your Corner |
| Channels |
Digital: 35 (UHF) Virtual: 36 () |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | Fox |
| Owner |
E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Broadcasting Holdings, LLC) |
| First air date | October 14, 1985 |
| Call letters' meaning | We're ForT Myers FoX or disambiguation of WFTS-TV |
| Former channel number(s) | 36 (UHF analog, 1985–2009) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1985–1986) |
| Transmitter power | 930 kW |
| Height | 404 m |
| Facility ID | 70649 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 26°47′42″N 81°48′5″W / 26.79500°N 81.80139°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | fox4now.com |
WFTX-TV, virtual channel 36 (UHF digital channel 35), is a Fox-affiliated television station serving Fort Myers and Naples, Florida, United States that is licensed to Cape Coral. The station is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. WFTX maintains studio facilities located on Southwest Pine Island Road (SR 78) in Cape Coral, and its transmitter is located in Punta Gorda (east of I-75/SR 93) near the Charlotte and Lee County line. The station is branded as "Fox 4", in reference to its channel location on most Fort Myers area cable systems.
The station first signed on the air on October 14, 1985, operating as an independent station; the station was originally owned by Family Group Broadcasting, which had previously owned WFTS-TV in Tampa, from which the WFTX call letters are derived. WFTX became a charter affiliate of Fox on October 9, 1986. Family Group Broadcasting sold the station to Terre Haute, Indiana-based Wabash Valley Broadcasting, controlled by the family of Tony Hulman, that December. Under Wabash Valley Broadcasting, elements of the station closely paralleled that of Wabash Valley's flagship station in Terre Haute, WTHI-TV; the two stations used the same voice-over announcer and identical logos, and one of WTHI's news anchors subsequently transferred to WFTX.
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