TV Facts -- Tampa Edition

Distributed for free in Hillsborough & eastern Pasco Counties.

TV Facts is a national magazine that, unlike TV Guide, is franchised; in other words, each edition is independently owned and published. The Tampa edition has been published since 1973. There was a Pinellas County edition, but that edition was short-lived, twice (once in the late-1970s to early-1980s, and again in the early-1990s; both versions are unrelated to the Tampa edition). This edition is also published bi-weekly (some editions are published weekly).

Note:

Grids are similar to the ones used in the Toronto Sun and TV Extra.

[3] WEDU (PBS) Tampa
[8] WFLA (NBC) Tampa
[10] WTSP (CBS) St. Petersburg
[13] WTVT (Fox) Tampa
[16] WUSF (PBS) Tampa
[22] WCLF (independent) Clearwater
[28] WFTS (ABC) Tampa
[32] WWWB (WB) Lakeland
[38] WTTA (independent) St. Petersburg
[44] WTOG (UPN) St. Petersburg
[57] WRMD (Telemundo) Tampa (low-power)

Listed in cable chart, but not in listings:

WVEA ch.61 (Univision) Tampa (low power; was listed until TVF's format overhaul)

Notes:

1. In cable chart, [3] is also listed as affiliated with NET. NET, National Educational Television, provided educational and some entertainment programming to educational stations across America until October 1970, when PBS took over.

2. In cable chart, ESPN is listed as "8". When ESPN was first launched in 1979, TelePrompTer Cable TV (a forerunner of Time Warner in Tampa Bay) carried ESPN on channel 8 in Hillsborough County. In 1981, when WFTS (28) signed on, TelePrompTer moved ESPN to channel 27 (where it still is today). In 1982, TelePrompTer was purchased by Westinghouse Broadcasting and became Group W Cable. In 1986, Paragon Cable (now Time Warner) purchased Group W Cable. However, ESPN is listed in grids as [ESPN].