WFTS, virtual channel 28, is the ABC affiliate television station for the Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida market, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. It broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 29. Its transmitter is located in Riverview, Florida.

WFTS-TV first went on the air on December 14, 1981 as an independent station. Being a flagship of the locally-based Family Group Broadcasting, the station programmed a family-oriented general entertainment format with cartoons, off-network dramas, old movies and religious shows. Its call letters originally stood for Family Television Station. An era of local ownership ended on April 22, 1984, when it was acquired by Capital Cities Communications. It was Capital Cities' first station in Florida, the group's first—and only—independent station, and was also the last station acquired by the group prior to its merger with ABC. The first incarnation of channel 28 was to have been WTSS-TV, an affiliate of the DuMont Television Network in the 1950s. It is very likely that that station never made it to air.

Drew Soicher ( /ˈsɔɪʃər/), the evening sports reporter for KUSA-TV, joined KUSA in January 2000. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and has a bobblehead doll museum in his basement. In fact, he owns more than 500 of the spring-loaded figures. He also coaches The Mighty Bobbleheads Little League baseball team. Before working at KUSA, he worked at KPIX-TV in San Francisco. Before that, he worked at Tampa's WFTS-TV from 1994 to 1998. His brother is Marc Soicher, who worked at KWGN-TV until June, 2008.

Alvin Craig Harper (born July 6, 1967 in Lake Wales, Florida) is a former American football player in the National Football League. After going 1-15 in 1989 and 7-9 in 1990, the Dallas Cowboys were poised to capitalize on some key draft opportunities. In the 1991 NFL Draft, of its three first-round picks, the team drafted defensive tackle Russell Maryland (first) and wide receiver Harper (12th).

Harper would play in Dallas for four years as the Cowboys went from the team with the worst NFL record to become back-to-back championships in Super Bowl XXVII and Super Bowl XXVIII.

At Frostproof High School, Harper was a standout football player, earning USA Today High School All-American honors as a senior in 1986. He also excelled in track and field, where he at one time held the Florida High School high jump record and won two state Class A high jumping titles, as well as basketball where he averaged 23 points and 10 rebounds per game.

He went onto the University of Tennessee, where he practiced football and track and field.