Editing WTTA (section)

==Newscasts==
===Sinclair era===
In August 2003, WTTA established a news department and began airing a late evening newscast at 10 p.m. weeknights in an attempt to compete with WTVT's longer-established prime time newscast. Known as ''WB 38 News at 10'', it was part of Sinclair's controversial centralized ''[[News Central (American TV program)|News Central]]'' operation and featured a mix of local news and sports stories from staff at WTTA's facility, and national and international reports, weather forecasts and sports segments produced out of Sinclair's corporate headquarters on Beaver Dam Road in Hunt Valley, Maryland. It also aired ''The Point'', a controversial one-minute [[conservative]] political commentary feature, that was a requirement of all Sinclair-owned stations that aired newscasts (regardless of whether it carried the News Central format or not). Due to poor ratings, WTTA's news department was shut down on March 31, 2006, due to cutbacks in Sinclair's news operations companywide, which included the disbandment of its News Central division, with the newscast being replaced by syndicated programming.

Newscasts returned to the station on October 8, 2007, after Sinclair and future sister station WFLA-TV entered into a news share agreement resulting in a weeknight prime time newscast produced by that station called ''NewsChannel 8 at 10 on My TV Tampa Bay''. Original personnel included news anchors Peter Bernard and Katie Coronado with weather from meteorologists Mace Michaels or Leigh Spann. The broadcast was produced from WFLA's studios on South Parker Street in Downtown Tampa. This arrangement was similar to ones established at Sinclair stations in [[WLFL|Raleigh, North Carolina]], [[WNYO-TV|Buffalo]], [[WSMH|Flint, Michigan]], [[WTAT-TV|Charleston, South Carolina]], and [[KVCW|Las Vegas]]. The WFLA-produced newscast was canceled and ended on April 30, 2009.

===Media General/Nexstar era===
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On August 9, 2014, WTTA debuted ''Great 38 News Now'', a series of brief weather and news reports, running thirty seconds in length, three times a day. Initially, the news updates, which debuted eleven days before Media General's acquisition of WTTA, were produced by former sister station [[WPEC]] in [[West Palm Beach]]. The program since expanded as a half-hour public affairs show on Sundays at 7&nbsp;p.m., which was eventually canceled. At the beginning of 2015, production transferred to WFLA-TV, from that station's own studios in Tampa.

On January 4, 2016, WFLA once again began producing a local newscast for WTTA, this time, a nightly hour-long newscast at 8&nbsp;p.m. under the title ''NewsChannel 8 at 8:00 on Great 38'', pushing MyNetworkTV programming back one hour. On August 7, 2017, WFLA began producing another local newscast for WTTA, this time, a two-hour expansion of the former's morning newscast from 7 to 9&nbsp;a.m. under the title ''NewsChannel 8 Today on Great 38'', with the second hour titled ''Make Today Gr8 with Gayle and Leigh'', which is hosted by WFLA morning co-anchor Gayle Guyardo and WFLA morning meteorologist Leigh Spann.

On April 5, 2020, WFLA expanded into Spanish-language news coverage with the addition of a half-hour 9&nbsp;p.m. newscast airing weeknights entitled ''Noticias Tampa Hoy'' on WTTA.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.wfla.com/noticias-tampa-hoy/ | title=WFLA News Channel 8 to Launch Noticias Tampa Hoy! | date=March 23, 2021 }}</ref> WFLA also hosts [https://www.wfla.com/tampa-hoy/ a complementary website] which features local news in Spanish.