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WZVN-TV, virtual channel 26 (UHF digital channel 41), is an ABC-affiliated television station serving Fort Myers, Florida, United States that is licensed in Naples (as such, it is one of two Fort Myers-based stations licensed in Naples, alongside CW affiliate WXCW channel 46). The station is owned by Montclair Communications; the Waterman Broadcasting Corporation, which owns NBC affiliate WBBH-TV (channel 20), operates WZVN-TV under a local marketing agreement. The two stations share studio facilities located on Central Avenue in Fort Myers; WZVN's transmitter is located along SR 31 in unincorporated southeastern Charlotte County. The station is also available on Comcast and CenturyLink channel 7. There is a high definition feed provided on Comcast digital channel 431 and CenturyLink digital channel 1007. Known on-air as "''ABC 7''", the branding is derived from WZVN's primary cable position in the market on Comcast Xfinity and most other cable providers in the area. This practice stems in part from the area's exceptionally high cable penetration rate, which is one of the highest in the United States. ==History== The station first signed on the air on August 21, 1974 as WEVU (a phonetic translation of "WE VieU()"); it was the third television station to sign-on in Fort Myers. The station was owned by Gulfshore Television Corporation, it immediately took over the ABC affiliation which beforehand was relegated to off-hour secondary clearances through WBBH-TV (channel 20) and CBS affiliate WINK-TV (channel 11). However, viewers with a good antenna could also watch the full ABC schedule from Miami's WPLG, West Palm Beach's WPEC, or WLCY-TV (now CBS affiliate WTSP) in St. Petersburg. The station's original studios were located off of US 41 in Bonita Springs, The station's original transmitter facilities were located southeast of Bonita Springs, near the Collier and Lee County line. This location allowed the station to provide a stronger signal into Naples and Southern Collier County as compared with the market's other broadcast outlets. Gulfshore Television sold the station to Caloosa Television, a subsidiary of The Home News Company in 1978. In 1987, the station moved its operations to a new building located on Bonita Bay Boulevard in Bonita Springs. In 1992, it was sold to FCVS Communications (then-owner of WKCH-TV, now WTNZ, in Knoxville, Tennessee and WACH in Columbia, South Carolina), which turned around and sold all three stations to Ellis Communications in 1993. In 1994, WEVU entered into a local marketing agreement with WBBH and moved its operations into that station's facility on Central Avenue. At the time, both stations began identifying by their cable channel slots, with channel 26 starting to use a variant of the circle 7 logo. WZVN's version has the ABC logo attached to the bottom left corner boxed in by a black rectangle. Unlike the more common varieties, such as that used by network flagship WABC-TV in New York City, the "seven" numeral is curved differently. The station changed its call letters to the current WZVN-TV (a phonetic translation of "Z()eVeN") on October 16, 1995 (the WEVU calls later resided on a now-defunct local Class A station). Ellis Communications merged with Raycom Media in 1996 although due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ownership limits in effect at the time that barred common ownership of two television stations in the same market, WZVN's license was spun off to Montclair Communications, which continued the LMA with WBBH. It should be noted that station's operator, Waterman Broadcasting, holds an investment interest in Montclair Communications even though the two companies file separate financial reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As of August 2009, its website is now completely operated by WBBH as a hybrid of that station's web address with a different color scheme. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WZVN-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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