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Media in Miami

{{Short description|Media in Miami, Florida, United States}}

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Media in Miami, Florida, United States, includes newspapers, magazines, Internet-based web sites, radio, television, and cinema. Florida produces some of its own media, while some comes from outside the state for Floridian consumption.

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{{See also-text|List of newspapers in Florida (includes Miami)}}

The Miami Metropolis newspaper began publication in May 1896, overseen initially by W.S. Graham and Wesley M. Featherby, and later by B.B. Tatum. In 1934, it became the Miami Daily News.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1941}}{{cite web |url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/contains/?t=%22Newspapers+--+Miami+(Fla.)%22&f=SU |title=Newspapers -- Miami (Fla.) |publisher=University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries |work= Digital Collections |access-date= April 6, 2017 }} The Herald newspaper began in 1899, followed by the Central News and Miami Weekly in 1920. Tropic Magazine began in 1914.{{sfn|Rowell|1922}}

The first Miami Book Fair was held in 1984.

Radio

{{See also|List of radio stations in Florida}}

The earliest radio stations in Miami were WQAM (est. 1923) and WIOD (est. 1926).{{sfn|Alicoate|1939}}

= AM =

= FM =

(*) — indicates a non-commercial radio station.
([RDS]) — indicates a supported by the Radio Data System.

= Shortwave =

= Defunct =

  • WFAB—Miami (1962–1977)
  • WFAW—Miami (1922–1923)
  • WMJX—Miami (1948–1981)

TV

{{See also|List of television stations in Florida}}

The Miami–Fort Lauderdale region is currently ranked by Nielsen Media Research as the 16th-largest television market in the United States.{{cite web |title=Local Television Market Universe Estimates |date= September 2016 |author=Nielsen Company |url=https://www.tvb.org/Public/Research/Measurement/NielsenDMARanks.aspx |via=Television Bureau of Advertising, Inc. }} Affiliations listed below are the primary subchannel of each respective station (displayed as x.1 via PSIP). Additional networks/diginets are also available on many of the following stations' secondary subchannels (x.2 and up).

= Full-power =

= Low-power =

(*) - indicates channel is a network owned-and-operated station.

= Streaming =

= Cable =

= Defunct =

See also

Notes

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References

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Bibliography

  • {{cite book |title=American Newspaper Directory |year=1900 |publisher=George P. Rowell |location=New York

|chapter= Florida: Miami |page=116

|hdl=2027/umn.31951002273861a?urlappend=%3Bseq=124 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002273861a?urlappend=%3Bseq=124 |via=HathiTrust

| ref = {{harvid|Rowell|1900}}

}}

  • {{cite book |title=American Newspaper Annual & Directory |location=Philadelphia |publisher=N. W. Ayer & Son |year=1922

|chapter= Florida: Miami |page= 156

|hdl=2027/umn.31951001295695n?urlappend=%3Bseq=232 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951001295695n?urlappend=%3Bseq=232

| ref = {{harvid|Rowell|1922}}

}}

  • {{citation |title=Radio Annual |oclc=2459636 |year=1939 |editor= Jack Alicoate |publisher= Radio Daily |location=New York

|chapter=Florida: Miami |pages=219–220

|chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/radioannual193900radi#page/219/mode/1up |via=Internet Archive

| ref = {{harvid|Alicoate|1939}}

}} {{free access}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Federal Writers' Project |title= Planning Your Vacation in Florida: Miami and Dade County |series=American Guide Series |location=Northport, NY |publisher= Bacon, Percy & Daggett

|year= 1941

|chapter= Newspapers and Radio |pages=91–96

|isbn= 9780404579074 |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/planningyourvac00writrich#page/91/mode/1up

| ref = {{harvid|Federal Writers' Project|1941}}

}}

  • Nixon Smiley. Knights of the Fourth Estate: The Story of the Miami Herald. E.A. Seemann Publishing, 1974.
  • Roy M. Fisher. The Trial of the First Amendment: Miami Herald vs. Tornillo. Freedom of Information Center, 1975.
  • {{cite journal |title=WTVJ's Miami Crime War: A Television Crusade |author= Paul G. Ashdown |journal= Florida Historical Quarterly |volume= 58 |jstor=30140494 |year= 1980

|issue= 4 |pages= 427–437 }}

  • Nixon Smiley. The Miami Herald Front Pages, 1903–1983. H.N. Abrams, 1983.
  • {{cite journal |journal=Columbia Journalism Review |volume=23 |title=Cuban Connection and the Gringo Press |author= John Rothchild |year=1984

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  • Edna Buchanan. The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat. Random House, 1987.
  • {{citation |title=Spanish-Language TV Called Biased |work=New York Times |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/24/arts/spanish-language-tv-called-biased.html |date=July 24, 1989

}}

  • {{cite book |author= Gonzalo R. Soruco |title= Cubans and the Mass Media in South Florida|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2cdvNHYtcXcC |publisher=University Press of Florida|isbn=978-0-8130-1379-4 |year= 1996

|chapter= Media in Miami |pages=34–53

}}

}}

  • Martin Merzer, ed. The Miami Herald Report: Democracy Held Hostage. St. Martin's Press, 2001.
  • {{cite journal |author= John Sinclair |title=Hollywood of Latin America: Miami as Regional Center in Television Trade |doi=10.1177/1527476403254159 |journal= Television & New Media |volume=4 |year=2003

|s2cid=145538531 }}

  • {{cite book|editor=Christopher H. Sterling|title=Encyclopedia of Radio |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQhDq8fPj2IC |year= 2004|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn |location=New York |isbn=978-1-135-45648-1

|chapter= Miami |pages= 896–898

|author= Juliet Gill Pinto

}}

  • {{cite journal |title=We Must Picture an 'Octopus': Anticommunism, Desegregation, and Local News in Miami, 1945-1960 |author= Gregory W. Bush |journal=Tequesta |volume=65 |issn= 0363-3705 |publisher=Historical Association of Southern Florida |url= http://www.historymiamiarchives.org/pdfs/Tequesta2005-p48-63.pdf |via=Florida International University |year= 2005

}} {{free access}}

  • Aurora Wallace. Newspapers and the Making of Modern America: A History. Greenwood Press, 2005. (Chapter 5: Florida in Chains: The Miami Herald and the Tampa Tribune)
  • {{cite journal |title=Mass Media Use Among South Florida Hispanics: An Intercultural Typology |author1= Gonzalo Soruco |author2=Juliet Pinto |journal= Florida Communication Journal |issn=1050-3366 |publisher=Florida Communication Association |year=2010 |volume= 38

}}

External links

{{Commons category|Media of Florida}}

  • {{cite web |url= http://dmoztools.net/Regional/North_America/United_States/Florida/Localities/M/Miami/News_and_Media/ |work=DMOZ |publisher=AOL |title=Florida: Localities: Miami: News and Media }} (Directory ceased in 2017)
  • {{cite web |url=https://www.tvb.org/Public/MarketsStations/Markets/MarketProfile.aspx?@IP_IDENTITY_MCID=0000022810 |title=Market Profile: Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL |publisher=Television Bureau of Advertising, Inc. }}
  • {{cite web |url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/results/?state=Florida&city=Miami&rows=50&sort=date |title=US Newspaper Directory: Florida: Miami |location=Washington, D.C. |work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress }}
  • {{cite web |url=http://dloc.com/exhibits/cubanexilenewspapers |via=Digital Library of the Caribbean |author1=University of Miami |author2=University of Florida |title= Cuban Exile Newspapers at the University of Miami }}

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File:1896 Miami Metropolis 5 June.jpg|Miami Metropolis newspaper, 1896

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