WFTT-TV

WFTT-TV (channel 62) is a television station licensed to Venice, Florida, United States, serving the Tampa Bay area as an affiliate of the Scientology Network. Owned by Entravision Communications, the station maintains transmitter facilities in Riverview, Florida.

Channel 62 began broadcasting as WBSV-TV on May 3, 1991. It was an independent station targeting the Venice–Sarasota–Bradenton area, including local newscasts in its early years. It was built by DeSoto Broadcasting, which had bought the construction permit from Venice Broadcasting after a years-long process protracted by issues locating the station's tower. Parallel to channel 62, the Spanish International Network, later Univision, established a Tampa Bay presence with the launch of a translator on channel 50 in 1982. It moved to channel 61 in 1987 and became known as WVEA-LP in 1995. The station instituted local newscasts in 1998.

In 1998, Entravision agreed to buy WFTT-TV, and in March 2001, channel 62 moved its transmitter to Riverview and became WVEA-TV, essentially upgrading the former WVEA-LP to full-power status. During this time, Univision also bought a Tampa Bay station—WBHS (channel 50), which became the original WFTT when Telefutura (now UniMás) launched in January 2002. Entravision's agreements with Univision, which ran more than 20 years from the time of the WBHS purchase, prevented the network from moving its affiliation. In 2017, Univision moved the network programming and WVEN-TV call letters to its own transmitter on channel 50, but Entravision continued to operate both stations until the end of 2021, when channel 62 lost its programming from UniMás.