Tampa Bay’s #1 News Brand
WFLA is Tampa Bay’s most well known television station – a winning streak extending for well over a decade. Our award winning newscasts are consistently top rated in their time periods. Over the course of a month 85-90% of all Tampa Bay homes will tune into WFLA at least once. As of September 2007, all of WFLA’s newscasts are now available in High Definition!
Pewter Partner with Bucs & Sports Partnerships
Our Pewter Partnership with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers offers your business cross-marketing tie-ins with Tampa Bay’s favorite football team that are unavailable anywhere else! In addition to the Bucs, WFLA is an exclusive partner with University of South Florida Sports and the New York Yankee’s Steinbrenner Field.
Top Quality Programming
NBC Prime offers top-quality dramas and comedies, including Heroes, Law & Order, Deal or No Deal and The Office. WFLA is also the home of The Today Show (the #1 national morning news program) and NBC Nightly News (the #1 national evening news program). Top quality programs also include Oprah, The Doctors, Rachael Ray and Entertainment Tonight. NBC is also the home of NFL Sunday Night Football, the Tampa Bay Preseason Buccaneer games and the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Fun Facts about WFLA
Tampa’s NBC affiliate for over 50 years! The only station in the market to be affiliated with the same network (NBC) since signing on.
Out first broadcast day was on Valentine’s Day 1955 with a live broadcast of the Gasparilla Parade
WFLA’s On Your Side slogan has been in place for nearly two decades.
Anchor Gayle Sierens was the first women to ever do play-by-play announcing for an NFL game (1987).
