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| City | Fort Myers, Florida |
| Channels | |
| Branding | NBC2 |
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| History | |
First air date | December 18, 1968 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 20 (UHF, 1968–2009) |
| ABC (secondary, 1968–1974) | |
Call sign meaning | Buerry, Burgess, and Hoffman, original investors in the station[2] |
| Technical information[3] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 71085 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 454.5 m (1,491 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 26°49′22.4″N 81°45′53.6″W / 26.822889°N 81.764889°W |
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| Website | www |
WBBH-TV (channel 20) is a television station licensed to Fort Myers, Florida, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for Southwest Florida. It is owned by Hearst Television, which provides certain services to Naples-licensed ABC affiliate WZVN-TV (channel 26) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Montclair Communications. The two stations share studios on Central Avenue in Fort Myers; WBBH-TV's transmitter is located along SR 31 in unincorporated southeastern Charlotte County. The station is known as "NBC 2", reflecting its primary channel number on local cable television systems.
WBBH-TV went on the air in December 1968 as the second station in Fort Myers; it has been an NBC affiliate since its first day on air. Waterman Broadcasting owned WBBH from 1979 to 2023; WBBH took over most of the operations of what is now WZVN-TV in 1994. It has generally fought CBS affiliate WINK-TV for first place in local news ratings.
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