WFLA-TV 8, Tampa, Florida
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WFLA-TV 8 is the NBC affiliate in the Tampa/St. Petersburg market.
Waymark Code: WM2HJX
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 11/06/2007
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WFLA-TV is the NBC affiliate television station on the west coast of the U.S. state of Florida, serving the Tampa-St. Petersburg market. The station is the flagship station of its owner and operator, Media General. WFLA is the only station in the market to be affiliated with the same network (NBC) since signing on.
The station shares the "News Center" building in Tampa with co-owned The Tampa Tribune and TBO.com.
The station is the home of Tampa Bay Buccaneers preseason games, primarily called by Chris Myers and Chris Davis.
WFLA-TV signed on Valentine's Day 1955 with a live broadcast of the Gasparilla Pirate Festival, which it has aired live every year since then. The station was owned by the Tribune along with WFLA radio (AM 970 and FM 93.3, now WFLZ). Largely because of its newspaper background, it was the early ratings leader in Tampa, until WTVT passed it in 1962.
The station is currently branded as "NewsChannel8".
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