Anchors | ShopTalk Longtime WFLA Anchor Bill Ratliff Dies By Andrew Gauthier on May. 8, 2012 - 5:43 PM Longtime WFLA anchor Bill Ratliff passed away this afternoon. The Tampa NBC-affiliate reports that he died after complications with surgery. Ratliff worked at WFLA for nearly three decades, from 1982 to 2009, during which time he ...