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media in Los Angeles

{{Short description|Overview of mass media in Los Angeles, United States}}

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File:Mt Wilson antenna farm winter.jpeg, a major transmitter site for Los Angeles radio and TV stations]]

The media of Los Angeles are influential and include some of the most important production facilities in the world. As part of the "Creative Capital of the World",{{cite web |url=http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/smart-takes/is-los-angeles-really-the-creative-capital-of-the-world-report-says-yes/2202 |title=Is Los Angeles really the creative capital of the world? Report says yes |publisher=SmartPlanet |date=November 19, 2009 |access-date=October 14, 2011}} it is a major global center for media and entertainment. In addition to being the home of Hollywood, the center of the American motion picture industry, the Los Angeles area is the second largest media market in North America (after New York City).{{cite press release | title = Tampa Bay 12th largest media market now | publisher = Tampa Bay Partnership | date = August 26, 2006 | url = http://tampabay.org/press.asp?rls_id=991& | access-date = 2007-05-31 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070808072027/http://tampabay.org/press.asp?rls_id=991& | archive-date = August 8, 2007 }} Many of the nation's media conglomerates either have their primary headquarters (like The Walt Disney Company) or their West Coast operations (like NBCUniversal) based in the region. Universal Music Group, one of the "Big Four" record labels, is also based in the Los Angeles area.

The major daily newspaper is the Los Angeles Times, while La Opinión is the city's major daily Spanish-language paper. The Hollywood Reporter and Variety are significant entertainment industry papers in Los Angeles. There are also a wide variety of smaller regional newspapers, alternative weeklies and magazines, including LA Weekly, Los Angeles magazine, the Los Angeles Business Journal, the Los Angeles Daily Journal, and the Los Angeles Downtown News. In addition to the English- and Spanish-language papers, numerous local periodicals serve immigrant communities in their native languages, including Korean, Persian, Russian and Japanese.

Los Angeles neighborhoods also have community weekly newspapers and news websites, which include The Argonaut, Westside Today and the Westside Current, which covers the Westside neighborhoods, Park La Brea News, which covers the Park La Brea and Miracle Mile neighborhoods and The Eastsider which covers Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles, Northeast Los Angeles neighborhoods, Echo Park, Silver Lake, Atwater Village, Los Feliz and East Hollywood.

The Southern California News Group, a subsidiary of Digital First Media, operates eleven other regional daily newspapers in greater Los Angeles, with all covering four of the five Los Angeles DMA counties. The Los Angeles Daily News, published in the San Fernando Valley community of Woodland Hills, serves as the flagship newspaper of SCNG in Los Angeles County; other publications under the SCNG umbrella include the Torrance-based Daily Breeze (serving the South Bay and southwestern Los Angeles County), Long Beach Press-Telegram which serves Long Beach and Gateway Cities, San Gabriel Valley Tribune serves the central and eastern San Gabriel Valley, the Whittier Daily News serves the Greater Whittier area, the Pasadena Star-News serves the Greater Pasadena area and the Orange County Register, which SCNG acquired (along with the Riverside Press-Enterprise) from Freedom Communications in March 2016.

Los Angeles arts, culture and nightlife news is also covered by a number of local and national online guides like Time Out Los Angeles, Thrillist, Kristin's List, LAist, LA Taco, and Flavorpill.{{cite web|url=http://beta.flavorpill.com/losangeles |title=Discover - Flavorpill Beta |access-date=2015-09-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130207012702/http://beta.flavorpill.com/losangeles |archive-date=2013-02-07}}

Film

{{main|Cinema of the United States|Major film studios}}

The city's Hollywood neighborhood is notable as the home of the U.S. film industry, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry and the people in it. The industry's "Big Five" major film studios (Sony, Disney, Paramount, Universal, and Warner Bros.) are all based in or around Hollywood. Several other smaller and independent film companies also operate in the Los Angeles area.

Sony Pictures Entertainment entrance 1.jpg|Sony

Walt_Disney_Studios_Alameda_Entrance.jpg|Disney

Paramountpicturesmelrosegate.jpg|Paramount

Gate2universalstudios.JPG|Universal

Gate_4_Warner_Bros._Studios.jpg|Warner Bros.

Print media

File:LATimesBuilding.jpg headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles]]

=Daily newspapers=

=Weekly, biweekly and monthly newspapers=

  • Argonaut (Marina del Rey/Culver City community weekly)
  • Beverly Press (community weekly)[http://parklabreanewsbeverlypress.com/news/about-us/ About Us {{!}} Park Labrea News/ Beverly Press] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131124015244/http://parklabreanewsbeverlypress.com/news/about-us/ |date=2013-11-24 }}
  • CaribPress (Caribbean monthly)
  • The Century City News (community bi-weekly)
  • Cultural News (English-language Japanese monthly)
  • India Journal (Indian weekly)[http://www.indiajournal.com/subscribe-2 India Journal - Subscribe] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109120736/http://www.indiajournal.com/subscribe-2 |date=2012-11-09 }}
  • The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles (Jewish weekly)
  • L.A. Watts Times (community weekly)[http://www.lawattstimes.com/ L.A. Watts Times]
  • LA Weekly (alternative weekly)
  • Larchmont Chronicle (community weekly)
  • Los Angeles Asian Journal (Filipino biweekly)[http://www.ajdigitaledition.com/webpaper/ Asian Journal Digital Editions]
  • Los Angeles Blade (LGBT+ biweekly)
  • Los Angeles Business Journal (business weekly)
  • Los Angeles Downtown News (community weekly)
  • Los Angeles Free Press (weekly underground newspaper){{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160403151459/http://losangelesfreepress.com/about-2/ About Us {{!}} Los Angeles Free Press]}}
  • The Los Angeles Independent (community weekly)[http://laindependent.com/about/ The Los Angeles Independent - About]
  • Los Angeles Sentinel (African-American weekly)
  • Los Angeles Wave - Culver City edition (community weekly)[http://wavenewspapers.com/eedition/ Los Angeles Wave - eEditions] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103005425/http://wavenewspapers.com/eedition/ |date=2013-11-03 }}
  • "Our Weekly" - Black, African-American news and information. www.ourweekly.com
  • Culver City Star
  • PACE NEWS-African-American news. www.pacenewsonline.com
  • The Westsider
  • Los Angeles Wave - Northeast edition (community weekly)
  • Belvedere Citizen
  • Eagle Rock Sentinel
  • East L.A. Tribune
  • Eastside Journal
  • Highland Park News Herald & Journal
  • Lincoln Heights Bulletin
  • Mount Washington Star Review
  • El Sereno Star
  • Los Angeles Wave - West edition (community weekly)
  • Angeles Mesa News
  • Central News Wave
  • Inglewood/Hawthorne Wave
  • Southside Journal
  • Southwest Topics Wave
  • Tribune News
  • Los Feliz Ledger (community monthly)
  • Pacific Citizen (Asian-American semi-monthly)
  • Palisadian-Post (community weekly)
  • Park Labrea News (community weekly)[http://parklabreanewsbeverlypress.com/news/about-us/ About Us {{!}} Park Labrea News/ Beverly Press] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131124015244/http://parklabreanewsbeverlypress.com/news/about-us/ |date=2013-11-24 }}
  • The Pride LA
  • The Angelus (Catholic weekly - Formerly The Tidings)
  • The Tolucan Times (community weekly)
  • Valley Vantage (community weekly){{Cite web |url=http://www.valleynewsgroup.com/about.html |title=Valley News Group - About us |access-date=2013-11-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102095912/http://www.valleynewsgroup.com/about.html |archive-date=2013-11-02 |url-status=dead }}
  • Warner Center News (community weekly)

=Magazines=

  • The Advocate
  • Angeleno[http://www.modernluxury.com/angeleno Angeleno magazine]
  • Bel-Air View[http://www.westsidetoday.com/about2/13/ Westside Today - Letter From The Publisher] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102195153/http://www.westsidetoday.com/about2/13/ |date=2013-11-02 }}
  • Brentwood Magazine
  • Brentwood News
  • Discover Hollywood Magazine[http://www.discoverhollywood.com Discover Hollywood Magazine]
  • Entertainment Weekly[https://variety.com/2017/biz/news/entertainment-weekly-headquarters-los-angeles-1202579673/ Entertainment Weekly Moving Headquarters to Los Angeles]
  • The Hollywood Reporter
  • The Reader Magazine{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060104111028/http://www.readermagazine.net/ The Reader Magazine]}}
  • L.A. Record
  • Los Angeles
  • Los Angeles Confidential[http://la-confidential-magazine.com/ Los Angeles Confidential]
  • Pacific Palisades 90272
  • Sense
  • Time Out Los Angeles
  • Variety

=Defunct=

  • El Clamor Público ("The Public Outcry", Spanish, 1855–1859){{cite web |title=Clamor Público Archive |url=https://www.newspapers.com/paper/clamor-publico/32492/ |website=Newspapers.com |access-date=26 November 2024 |date=2 February 1856}}
  • La Crónica (Spanish, c.1872–1889){{cite web |title=Crónica Archive |url=https://www.newspapers.com/paper/cronica/32174/ |website=Newspapers.com |access-date=26 November 2024 |date=11 January 1873}}
  • Eastside Sun (community weekly)[http://egpnews.com/about/ Eastern Group Publications - About Us]
  • Illustrated Daily News
  • LA Youth
  • Los Angeles CityBeat
  • Los Angeles Daily News (c.1860–1872, not to be confused with either the 1923–1954 Daily News or the current Daily News){{cite web |title=Los Angeles Daily News Archive |url=https://www.newspapers.com/paper/los-angeles-daily-news/26072/ |website=Newspapers.com |access-date=26 November 2024 |date=9 January 1872}}
  • Los Angeles Daily News (1923-1954, orig. Illustrated Daily News)
  • Los Angeles Evening Telegram (c.1882–1882){{cite web |title=Los Angeles Evening Telegram Archive |url=https://www.newspapers.com/paper/los-angeles-evening-telegram/27577/ |website=Newspapers.com |access-date=26 November 2024 |date=9 September 1882}}
  • Los Angeles Herald-Examiner (1963 – November 2, 1989)
  • Los Angeles Herald-Express (1931–1962)
  • Los Angeles Herald (1873–1931)
  • Los Angeles Express (1871–1931)
  • Los Angeles Examiner (1903–1962)
  • Los Angeles Post-Record (1933–c.1936)
  • Los Angeles Evening Record (1895–1933)
  • Los Angeles Star / Estrella de Los Ángeles (English and Spanish, 1851–1879)
  • Mexican American Sun (community weekly)
  • New Times LA
  • Northeast Sun (community weekly)
  • Tuesday's Child
  • Daily Variety
  • Wyvernwood Chronicle (community weekly)

Television

{{Further|List of Los Angeles television stations}}

The Los Angeles area is the home of several major offices and production facilities in the television industry. The Fox Broadcasting Company is based in the Century City district of Los Angeles inside the 20th Century Studios studio lot, while the Fox Television Center is in West Los Angeles. CBS owns CBS Studio Center in Studio City and previously owned Television City in the Fairfax District, although the network still maintains operations on that lot. ABC and parent company Disney produce programs at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank and The Prospect Studios in the Los Feliz neighborhood. NBC primarily produced shows at what is now The Burbank Studios before parent NBCUniversal moved their operations to a complex adjacent to the Universal Studios lot. Several other film studios may also produce TV shows on their respective lots.

File:Foxstudiosentrance.jpg|Entrance to the Fox Studios lot

File:CBS Studio Center, Soundstage 2.JPG|CBS Studio Center, Soundstage 2

File:CBS TelevisionCity02.jpg|Television City

File:Prospect Studios gate.jpg|The Prospect Studios, formerly the ABC Television Center

File:The burbank studios alameda.jpg|The Burbank Studios, formerly NBC Studios

File:Knbcstudiobldg.JPG|Entrance to Gate 3 at Universal Studios, with signage for KNBC and KVEA

File:ExecutiveOfficeBldg OldWarnerBrosStudio nowKTLA comd.jpg|Sunset Bronson Studios, home of KTLA

Broadcast radio

A number of radio stations are broadcast from and/or are licensed to Los Angeles, including the following:{{cite web|title=AMQ AM Radio Database Query |publisher=Federal Communications Commission |url=http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/amq.html |access-date=2014-08-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825063614/http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/amq.html |archive-date=August 25, 2009 }}{{cite web|title=FMQ FM Radio Database Query|url=http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/fmq.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825071957/http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/fmq.html|archive-date=August 25, 2009|access-date=2009-10-17|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}}

=AM stations=

: 1 clear-channel station

=FM stations=

Asterisk (*) indicates a non-commercial or the RDS is called "No text" (public radio/campus/educational) broadcast.

See also

{{Portal|Los Angeles}}

References

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External links

  • [http://www.laalmanac.com/media/index.htm LA Almanac - Media]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103055248/http://www.lavote.net/clerk/Newspaper_Circulation.cfm Naming Your Business: Newspaper of General Circulation]
  • [http://ceo.lacounty.gov/Forms/Media/Ethnic.pdf Ethnic Newspapers – Los Angeles County]

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