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WTSS-TV
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WTSS-TV, channel 28, was a television station that would have operated in Tampa, Florida. The station never signed on the air. History Original permit The channel 28 allocation in Tampa Bay was to have been used in the 1950s. It is very unlikely that WTSS ever made it to air. Second permit Another channel 28 construction permit was issued to Lucille Frostman, involved in the construction of WSMS-TV in Fort Lauderdale, in 1966, for a station which would have been called WTSS-TV, which was never built and deleted in 1971. Applications for a new channel 28 station in Tampa were received again in 1977, with the Christian Television Network the first to bid, followed by a group proposing a Spanish-language station; Family Television Corporation of Tampa, also of a Christian orientation; and Suncoast Telechoice, associated with subscription television equipment manufacturer Blonder Tongue Labs. Christian Television dropped out, amended its application to specify channel 22 at Clearwater, and won a construction permit for WCLF in February 1979. The other two parties dropped out in settlement agreements in early 1981, and Family received a construction permit in March. Family stockholders included T. Terrell Sessums, former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, and former state senate president Louis A. de la Parte Jr. The channel 28 allocation is now occupied by ABC affiliate WFTS-TV. The WTSS calls also reside on an unrelated FM radio station in Buffalo, New York. 
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