Media in Seattle

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Seattle is well served by newspapers and television and radio stations.

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[edit] Newspapers

As of 2004, three daily newspapers are published in Seattle: The Seattle Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce. There is also The Daily of the University of Washington, the University of Washington's school paper, published when school is in session.

Seattle is also home to several ethnic newspapers. Among these are the African American papers The Facts and the Seattle Medium; the Asian American papers the Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle Chinese Post, and the International Examiner; and the JTNews (formerly the Jewish Transcript).

Popular alternative newspapers include the Seattle Weekly and The Stranger, both published weekly; the Seattle Gay News; and Real Change, a weekly activist paper sold by homeless and low income people. The Rocket, a long-running weekly paper devoted to the music scene, stopped publishing in 2000.

Seattle also has numerous neighborhood newspapers, such as the Seattle Sun and Star, the West Seattle Herald, the Ballard News-Tribune, and the papers of the Pacific Publishing Company, which include the Queen Anne News, Magnolia News, North Seattle Herald-Outlook, Capitol Hill Times, Beacon Hill News & South District Journal, and the Madison Park Times.

[edit] Television

Seattle is home to numerous television stations. The major network affiliates are KOMO 4 (ABC), KING 5 (NBC), KIRO 7 (CBS), KCTS 9 (PBS) and KCPQ 13 (Fox).

Also broadcasting are KSTW 11 (The CW), KONG 16 (Independent), KTBW 20 (TBN), KMYQ 22 (MyNetworkTV), KBTC 28 (PBS), KWPX 33 (I), KSSN 45 (Intercontinental Television) and KUNS 51 (Univision).

Cable television viewers throughout the Seattle media market also receive CBUT 2 CBC from Vancouver, British Columbia, often as cable channel 99.

[edit] Magazines

Two locally owned magazines for parents, ParentMap Newsmagazine and Seattle's Child, are published monthly. The multiethnic glossy Colors NW publishes a companion Colors NW video podcast. Seattle Magazine and Seattle Metropolitan, local lifestyle magazines, are published monthly.

[edit] Radio

Some of Seattle's most popular commercial radio stations according to Arbitron ratings include:

There are also two National Public Radio member stations in the Seattle market:

Other public radio stations in the area include:

[edit] Internet Media

On the internet Seattle is covered by Seattle Indymedia, and by the blogs Seattlest, Seattle Metroblogging, SeattleArt.org, and Slog, amongst many others.

To better understand Seattle's romance with the Internet, look at the city's persistent media traditions, ranging from small presses to low power FM radio broadcasting. Seattle's independent volunteer-run KRAB FM radio, a high powered station that operated on 107.7 MHz in the regular broadcast band, influenced a generation of listeners and citizens during the 1960s and 1970s. Later, a number of very low power, microradio FM stations broadcast on the few remaining FM frequencies not allocated to high power stations, before Internet radio became practical. Currently, FCC deliberations and rulings about Internet radio are followed not only by Internet entrepreneurs, but by those Seattleites who produced and listened to local radio in those media, as well as those who produce and read countless local print publications.

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