WINN FM

What is WINN FM?

WINN FM is a radio station on 98.9 FM; its site expands the name as West Indies News Network and gives its address as The Sands Complex, Newtown Bay Road, Basseterre.^[1][2] The address winnfm.com redirects to winnmediaskn.com, where the station publishes its news.

Its About page states: “WINN FM is owned and operated by the Federation Media Group, a private company with 50 shareholders, none of whom owns more than 10 percent of the company's shares.”^[2] That is the station's own statement, retrieved on 26 September 2026; no register of broadcast licences or of company shareholdings was retrieved to confirm it.

The About page states the station's aim as “to offer local, Caribbean and international programming, and to contribute meaningfully to the information, awareness and the development of our nation and the region”.^[2]

What does WINN FM cover?

Bulletins. Its site lists Daily WINN FM Sports News, broadcast at 7:40 am and 6:40 pm, and a programme titled On the Ball among its video uploads.^[1]

Local sport. WINN FM reported on 23 March 2026 that Charles E Mills Secondary School won the 2026 TDC Track and Field Interschool Championship, with Charlestown Secondary School second.^[4] It reported on 11 August 2026 that the St. Kitts & Nevis Aquatics Federation had named a team for its first appearance at the 30th Goodwill Swimming Championships, held from 14 to 16 August 2026 at the National Aquatics Centre in Couva, Trinidad and Tobago.^[5]

Regional and international sport. As retrieved on 26 September 2026 its sports category also carried international football, Caribbean Premier League and Cricket West Indies items, and Winter Olympic reports from February 2026.^[3] The category's items were dated from August 2025 to 26 September 2026, with gaps of several weeks between some of them.^[3]

How large is WINN FM's audience?

No audience-measurement body publishing ratings, readership or audited web traffic for Saint Kitts and Nevis was found, and Reporters Without Borders publishes no country page for Saint Kitts and Nevis at the address its country pages use. No audience figure for WINN FM's broadcasts, streams or website is given here.

WINN FM's About page lists internet radio alongside its FM service; it publishes no listener figure on the pages retrieved.^[2]

Since when has WINN FM existed?

WINN FM's About page states: “WINN FM 98.9 began operations in St Kitts and Nevis in May 2002.”^[2] That is the station's own account; no second source for the date was retrieved.

Why does WINN FM matter in Saint Kitts and Nevis's sport?

WINN FM is a privately owned station, by its own statement, with a twice-daily sports bulletin.^[2][1] Its sports category reports school athletics and the national aquatics federation alongside regional cricket.^[4][5] Its report of the 2026 interschool championship quotes the medal count of the winning school: 29 gold, 20 silver and 25 bronze.^[4]

It reports regional cricket governance under its own dateline. Its report of 8 December 2025, datelined “St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN)”, states that the president of Cricket West Indies, Kishore Shallow, had announced that he would not seek re-election, following his election to serve in the government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.^[6] That report does not give the date of the Cricket West Indies election.^[6]