Allison Kropff was a news anchor at WTSP in Tampa, Florida. She anchored the Noon and 5 to 6:30 newscast. Prior to 2017, she anchored on Weekend and later Weekday Mornings. Early Life and College Kropff was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. She went to St. Bonaventure University where she graduated in 2005 majoring in Journalism and Mass Communications. Career She started her TV career at WOAY-TV in Beckley, West Virginia and then move to Charleston, West Virginia and WVLT-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee before coming to Tampa, Florida in 2011. She started being the weekend morning anchor before going to weekday mornings in 2013, replacing Ginger Gadsden. In 2017, WTSP made major changes to the news department which saw Kropff moving to afternoons. In 2016, She got National Attention after walking into Meteorologist Bobby Deskins shot while he was doing the forecast playing Pokemon Go. She has won two Emmys, one Best Anchor in the On-Camera Talent category and one for a story she did titled "Firefighter Cancer Scan" in 2020. She announced on her social media while celebrating 10 years at WTSP that she was leaving the station on the end of October. Her last day was October 29th, 2021.
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