Lloyd Sowers

Lloyd Sowers

Anchor & reporter

Lloyd Sowers is a co-anchor for the FOX 13 News weekend editions, and he covers many stories for other FOX 13 newscasts.

Lloyd joined FOX 13 in February 1987. He has covered many major stories, including hurricanes Andrew, Hugo, Opal, Elena, and Charley.

Lloyd has won many honors, including two Emmy Awards and the Florida Bar Association Award for reporting legal issues. He has also received AP, UPI and SPJ awards.

Lloyd earned his degree in Journalism from West Virginia University and graduated Magna Cum Laude. He minored in Speech Communication and English.

Before joining the FOX 13 news team, Lloyd worked at WINK-TV in Ft. Myers, Florida; WDTV in Clarksburg, West Virginia; WCLG in Morgantown, West Virginia and WMSG in Oakland, Maryland.

In his spare time, Lloyd enjoys scuba diving, travel, history and old radios. He, his wife Kim and sons Jack and Gray, live in Tampa. 

If you would like to contact lloyd, you can email him at Lloyd.Sowers@fox.com. You can also connect with him on Facebook and follow him on Twitter @LloydSowers.

The latest from Lloyd Sowers

Tampa gets new fire trucks; mayor, union disagree on Channelside fire station

If you call 911 in the city of Tampa, first responders now have a fleet of new emergency vehicles to bring to your aid, but the firefighters union says the city still needs to hire at least 49 firefighters, and it wants a new fire station built to cover the fast-growing Channelside and Water Street area.