Central Avenue facility provides the best protection against damaging winds. On August 14, 2006 through a news share agreement, the station began producing a nightly prime time newscast for cable-exclusive "WNFM" which eventually become the market's MyNetworkTV affiliate on September 5. Known as ABC 7 Gulfshore News at 10 on My TV 8, the broadcast was the first competitor to Fox affiliate WFTX-TV, whose 10 p.m. newscast has been long dominant in the ratings. However, as a result of Comcast's frequent technical difficulties (as the cable company operated "WNFM") which hindered the show's ratings as well as the March 26, 2007 launch of a WINK-produced 10 p.m. newscast that quickly garnered enough viewership to emerge as a strong second place in the 10 p.m. timeslot, WZVN canceled the program on May 25, 2007. On July 12, 2007, WZVN upgraded its newscasts to 16:9 widescreen enhanced definition. On October 20, however, rival WINK-TV became the first station in Southwestern Florida to broadcast news programming in high definition. WZVN would itself upgrade its newscasts to HD on July 19, 2008. On October 26 of that year, several changes occurred to WZVN and WBBH's news programming in order to better compete with WINK-TV. WZVN dropped the first hour of its weekday morning newscast (as of 2012, that hour has since been restored) and a mid-morning newscast at 10 a.m. WBBH debuted a new hour-long midday broadcast at 11 a.m. while keeping its hour-long noon newscast. Meanwhile, WZVN added an hour-long weekday morning newscast at 9 a.m. On September 8, 2009, the station began producing a half-hour 7 p.m. newscast on weeknights to compete against WINK-TV's newscast airing in the same timeslot. On January 16, 2012, WZVN debuted an hour-long newscast at 5 p.m. weeknights, which incidentally directly competes with WBBH's own 5 p.m. newscast. On the week of May 11, 2015, WZVN canceled the hour-long 5 p.m. newscast and replaced it with Extra at 5 p.m. and The Insider at 5:30 p.m. (both have since been replaced in the 5 p.m. time slot with The Kelly Clarkson Show). On September 7, 2015, WZVN's 9 a.m. newscast moved back to its original 10 a.m. time period. As of March 2022, WZVN-TV is one of only a handful of ABC affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone that doesn't carry a 5 p.m. and/or a 5:30 p.m. newscast. Notable current on air staff John Patrick (AMS