Media and Communications in Los Angeles, CA The new media services from Los Angeles large population of the city of the west coast. The Los Angeles Times is the major daily newspaper. The main document is the Spanish language La Opinion. The city also supports a wide variety of smaller regional newspapers, alternative weeklies and magazines, including Los Angeles Daily News, LA Weekly, Los Angeles CityBeat, Los Angeles Business Journal Los Angeles Daily Journal, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety.
In addition to the documents listed English and Spanish, a good variety of local periodicals serve immigrant communities in various native language, including Japanese, Korean, Persian and Russian.
A number of cities near Los Angeles have their own newspapers, those who cover and are available in some neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Two examples are the Daily Breeze and Long Beach Press-Telegram.
On air, the Los Angeles subway a wide variety of local television stations and is the second largest media market area in the United States, it is the only city to have seven VHF allocations that are assigned. Other markets have the same number of credits, but they are divided between the cities of parts. For example, New York City has seven grants, but two of them are assigned to cities in neighboring New Jersey.
Interestingly, with Washington, DC, Los Angeles is one of only a very select group of television markets that do not have a VHF allocation reserved for public broadcasting.
The principal subsidiaries include television networks KABC-TV 7 (ABC), KCBS 2 (CBS), KNBC 4 (NBC), KTTV 11 (FOX), KTLA 5, KCOP 13 and KPXN 30. PBS has a number of surface stations: KVCR 24 KCET 28, KOCE KLCS 50 and 58. World TV operates on two channels, KNET-LP 25 and LP-6 KSFV. TV networks speaking Spanish are also present, including KMEX 34 (Univision), KFTR 46 (Telefutura), KVEA 52 (Telemundo) and Kaza 54 (Azteca America).
There are several independent television stations in the area, including: KCAL 9 (owned by CBS); KSCI 18 (Asian language programming); KWHY 22, 27 and LP-KNLA KRCA 62 (Spanish); KSMV LP-33 KJLA and 57 (variety), KXLA 44 (classic programming) and KDOC 56 (local sports).
Posted on June 9, 2010.
