WFTT-TV

WFTT-TV (channel 62) is a religious television station licensed to Venice, Florida, United States, serving the Tampa Bay area.

Owned by Entravision Communications, the station maintains transmitter facilities in Riverview, Florida.

The station first signed on the air on May 3, 1991,[2] as WBSV-TV (for Bradenton, Sarasota, and Venice, the three cities it primarily served); locally owned by DeSoto Broadcasting, it originally operated as an English-language independent station serving the Sarasota area, and competed with the area's ABC affiliate WWSB (channel 40) and the other stations in the Tampa Bay and nearby Fort Myers markets.

WBSV's history ended in early 2001, when the station ceased broadcasting for a few weeks to perform the move and establish WVEA's new studio facilities.

[3] On October 13, 2021, Univision announced it would take over operation of WVEA, as well as Orlando Univision affiliate WVEN-TV, effective January 1, 2022, coinciding with the end of licensing agreements on December 31, 2021, effectively ending WFTT's UniMás affiliation.