Tampa Bay 28

The E.W. Scripps Company

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About this app

Tampa Bay 28 gives you up-to-the-minute local news, breaking news alerts, 24/7 live streaming video, accurate weather forecasts, severe weather updates, and in-depth investigations from the local news station you know and trust.

Connect to your community through our local news app. We're celebrating what makes our community great, giving you context to understand local issues and sharing solutions to help you solve problems and take action.

LOCAL NEWS:
• Get up-to-the-minute breaking news alerts and stories.
• Tap 'Top News' to read the most important news of the day as curated by our local news teams.
• Tap 'Most Recent' to read the news stories published most recently.
• Get full support for Dark Mode and Light Mode based on your device preference.

LOCAL VIDEO:
• Watch our 24/7 live streaming news channel.
• Watch video on demand clips from recent WFTS newscasts.
• You're in control over what you want to watch and when.

LOCAL WEATHER:
• Get daily video weather updates from your trusted local weather team.
• Stay up to date with hourly and daily weather forecasts.
• View interactive weather radar to help you track rain, snow and storms.
• Get weather conditions and forecasts for your location.

We're committed to continually improving your experience in our app. Please let us know how we're doing by leaving a review in the Google Play Store.

Ratings and reviews

After many issues with the new app (before the name change) freezing or crashing when trying to stream the live show in the morning on my android phone, I'm back to up my rating to 5 stars from 1. This latest update was just what my phone needed, and I'm happily back in business 😎 Thanks, Scripps, for your willingness to help find the problem!! Most pleased with the app once again.

For the last few weeks the app has been showing spam. It pops up with you're the winner of a Walmart gift card and other spam type messages. You cannot get out of it unless you exit completely. It just happened a few moments ago while sharing a news article via text. Also, the app shows it's up to date. I'm not clicking on any of the ads in the app either. Someone is going to get scammed because of this stupid app.

Notifications push out news headlines, but links never take you to those particular stories. Notifications also tell you if an interesting news break is happening on live stream, but the live stream has never worked for me a single time. Always says we'll be right back, never plays. Once in a while I'll get a commercial but no streaming news. Even when I clicked a notification shortly after receiving it, so I know I couldn't have completely missed it yet.

What’s new

This release includes some maintenance items to improve your overall news experience. Thanks for supporting local journalism!