Philadelphia Media

Philadelphia's two major daily newspapers are The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, both of which are owned by Philadelphia Media Holdings L.L.C. The Philadelphia Inquirer, founded in 1829, is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States. The Bulletin, another newspaper that operates in Philadelphia, traces its history back to The Philadelphia Bulletin that went defunct in 1982. The Bulletin is locally owned by The Bulletin, Inc.

The Inquirer Building on North Broad Street.The first experimental radio license was issued in Philadelphia in August, 1912 to St. Joseph's College. The first commercial radio stations appeared in 1922. WIP, then owned by Gimbel's department store, became the first on March 17 of that year. Also launched that year were WFIL, WOO, WCAU and WDAS. The highest-rated stations in Philadelphia include soft rock WBEB, KYW Newsradio, and urban adult contemporary WDAS-FM.

During the 1930s, the experimental station W3XE, which was owned by Philco Corp, became the first television station in Philadelphia. The station, which would later become KYW-TV (CBS), became NBC's first affiliate in 1939. By the 1970s WCAU-TV, WPVI-TV, WHYY-TV, WPHL-TV, and WTXF-TV were founded. In 1952 WFIL (now WPVI), premiered the television show Bandstand, which later became the nationally broadcast show American Bandstand hosted by Dick Clark. Today, as in many large metropolitan areas, each of the commercial networks has an affiliate, and call letters have been replaced by corporate IDs: CBS3, 6ABC, NBC10, FOX29, Telefutura28, Telemundo62, Univision65, plus My PHL 17 and CW Philly 57. On the public media side, the Philadelphia region is served by WYBE-TV (Philadelphia), WHYY-TV (Wilmington, Delaware and Philadelphia), WLVT-TV (Lehigh Valley), and New Jersey Network. In September, 2007, Philadelphia approved a public access cable channel. On the radio side, Philadelphia is served by three large public radio stations, plus several smaller ones; the larger ones are WHYY-FM (NPR), WRTI (jazz, classical), and WXPN-FM (adult alternative music).

Philadelphia has a competitive rock radio market, especially between WMMR and WYSP, which both specialize in playing modern and classic rock. The two stations enjoy a very intense rivalry with each station's listeners being faithfully loyal to their favorite station in most cases. Since 2005, WMMR now plays more music due to a shift in WYSP's programming from a rock station (which also carried controversial shock jock Howard Stern) to a Free FM station (which now carries the Kidd Chris morning show). WYSP also carries live radio broadcasts of all Philadelphia Eagles home and road games. WMMR has the top rated morning show in the Philadelphia area, The Preston and Steve Show, which has been at the top of the ratings since Howard Stern left for Sirius Radio.

Philadelphia's four urban stations (WUSL ("Power 99"), WPHI ("100.3 The Beat"), WDAS and WRNB) are popular choices on the FM dial. WJJZ is the city's "smooth jazz" station. When WJJZ was discontinued in August 2006, it caused an uproar among listeners, but it was revived three months later, under new ownership (Greater Media) from Burlington, NJ radio station WJJZ, on a new frequency (97.5). The former WJJZ is now WISX, "Philly's 106.1".

Source of Article:

Wikipedia. (2008). Philadelphia. Retrieved May 31, 2008 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia

This is a list of media based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Newspapers

Newspaper/ Founded/ Type/ Website

The Philadelphia Inquirer 1829 Daily philly.com/mld/inquirer
Philadelphia Tribune 1884 Bi-weekly phila-tribune.com
Philadelphia Magazine 1908 Monthly phillymag.com
Philadelphia Daily News 1925 Daily philly.com/mld/dailynews
South Philly Review 1947 Weekly southphillyreview.com
University City Review Weekly ucreview.com
The Northeast Times 19?? Weekly northeasttimes.com
Philadelphia Weekly 1971 Weekly philadelphiaweekly.com
Philadelphia Gay News 1976 Weekly epgn.com
Philadelphia City Paper 1981 Weekly citypaper.net
Al Día 1994 Weekly aldiainc.com
Brazilian News Week 2000 Weekly brazilianweekly.com
Philadelphia Metro 2000 Daily metro.lu
The Bulletin 2004 Daily www.thebulletin.us
Philadelphia Business Journal Weekly bizjournals.com/philadelphia
The Temple News 1921 Weekly temple-news.com
The Daily Pennsylvanian 1885 Daily dailypennsylvanian.com

Television Stations

Television Station/ Affiliate/ Founded/ Website

KYW-TV CBS 1941 cbs3.com
WPVI-TV ABC 1947 6abc.com
WCAU NBC 1948 nbc10.com
WHYY-TV PBS 1957 whyy.org
WPHL-TV My Network TV 1965 myphl17.trb.com
WTXF-TV Fox 1965 myfoxphilly.com
WUVP-TV Univision 1981 univision.com
WFPA-CA Telefutura
WWSI-TV Telemundo 2001 wwsi-tv.com
WYBE-TV Public Television 1990 wybe.org
WGTW-TV Trinity Broadcasting Network 1995 tbn.org
WPSG-TV The CW 1981 cwphilly.com
CN8 basic cable 1996 cn8.tv
Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia basic cable 1997 philadelphia.comcastsportsnet.com
Prism premium 1977

AM Radio Stations

AM Radio Station/ Frequency (kHz)/ Format/ Founded/ Website

KYW 1060 News 1922 kyw1060.com
WFIL 560 Religious 1922 wfil.com
WIP 610 Sports 1922 610wip.com
WPHT 1210 Political Talk 1922 thebigtalker1210.com
WEXP 1600 College 1972 lasalle.edu/wexp
WUBA 1480 Spanish Tropical 2007 rumba1480.com
WHAT 1340 Standards 2007 martiniloungeradio.com
WNTP 990 Talk newstalk990.com
WNWR 1540 Ethnic wnwr.com
WPEN 950 Sports sportstalk950.com
WCHR 920 Religious wchram.net
WURD 900 News/Talk talkradio900.com

FM Radio Stations

FM Radio Stations/ Frequency (MHz)/ Format/ Founded Website

WMMR 93.3 Rock 1942 wmmr.com
WXPN 88.5 Adult album alternative 1945 xpn.org
WRTI 90.1 Classical/Jazz 1948 wrti.org
WHYY 90.9 News/Talk 1954 whyy.org
WKDU 91.7 College 1958 wkdu.org
WDAS 105.3 Urban Adult Contemporary 1959 wdasfm.com
WBEB 101.1 Adult Contemporary 1963 b101radio.com
WPST 94.5 Top-40 1965 wpst.com
WRFF 104.5 Modern Rock 1965 radio1045.com
WYSP 94.1 Rock 1971 wysp.com
WMGK 102.9 Classic Rock 1975 wmgk.com
WUSL 98.9 Urban 1975 power99.com
WRDV 89.3 Oldies 1980 wrdv.org
WPEB 88.1 Educational 1981 hdms.net/wpeb
WXTU 92.5 Country 1984 wxtu.com
WOGL 98.1 Oldies 1987 wogl.com
WIOQ 102.1 Pop 1989 q102.com
WISX 106.1 Rhythmic AC 2006 philly1061.com
WRDW 96.5 Rhythmic 2003 wired965.com
WBEN 95.7 Adult Hits 2005 957benfm.com

Internet

South-Philly.com

Source of Article:

Wikipedia. (2008). Media of Philadelphia. Retrieved May 31, 2008 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_Philadelphia