Media in the Tampa Bay area

[2] It distributes a free Monday-through-Friday tabloid called tbt* in most areas of Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco counties.

La Gaceta is a weekly trilingual (English, Spanish and Italian) newspaper published in Tampa's historic Ybor City since 1922.

[4] Two newspapers serve the local black community: the Florida Sentinel Bulletin (Tampa) and The Weekly Challenger (St. Petersburg).

Tampa Bay Magazine, established in 1986, is printed monthly and features dining and entertainment content.

Several cities outside the Tampa-St. Petersburg core but within the Tampa Bay media market have smaller-circulation daily newspapers with overlapping coverage and distribution areas.

The reason for this was that WTSP, channel 10 which was the ABC affiliate at the time, had a smaller transmission tower in southwest Pasco County in Holiday.

The rest of the network television stations broadcast from a higher tower in the Riverview area of east-central Hillsborough County.

At around the same time, WTSP became a CBS affiliate and received a waiver increase their power, but it did not correct the problems with reception in Sarasota County.

In 2011, WSTP received a waiver to move their transmitter to the Riverview antenna farm which alleviated their reception issues in Sarasota County.