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Antennas on Mount Wilson, 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",[1] 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).[2] 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, the Eastsider which covers Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles, Northeast Los Angeles neighborhoods, Echo Park, Silver Lake, Atwater Village, Los Feliz and East Hollywood and Los Angeles Downtown News, which covers the Downtown area.

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, and Flavorpill.[3]

Film

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Main articles: Cinema of the United States and Major film studio

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.

  • The Big Five major film studios
  • Sony
    Sony
  • Disney
    Disney
  • Paramount
    Paramount
  • Universal
    Universal
  • Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros.
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Former Los Angeles Times headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles

Daily newspapers

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Weekly and monthly newspapers

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Defunct

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Television

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Further information: 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.

Broadcast radio

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A number of radio stations are broadcast from and/or are licensed to Los Angeles, including the following:[27][28]

AM stations

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1 clear-channel station

FM stations

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Is Los Angeles really the creative capital of the world? Report says yes". SmartPlanet. November 19, 2009. Retrieved October 14, 2011.
  2. ^ "Tampa Bay 12th largest media market now" (Press release). Tampa Bay Partnership. August 26, 2006. Archived from the original on August 8, 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-31.
  3. ^ "Discover - Flavorpill Beta". Archived from the original on 2013-02-07. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
  4. ^ The Los Angeles Bulletin
  5. ^ Metropolitan News-Enterprise
  6. ^ "VetsinTech to launch Women-VetsinTech initiative". www.calvet.ca.gov. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
  7. ^ About Us | Park Labrea News/ Beverly Press Archived 2013-11-24 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ India Journal - Subscribe Archived 2012-11-09 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ L.A. Watts Times
  10. ^ Asian Journal Digital Editions
  11. ^ About Us | Los Angeles Free Press
  12. ^ The Los Angeles Independent - About
  13. ^ a b c Los Angeles Wave - eEditions Archived 2013-11-03 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ About Us | Park Labrea News/ Beverly Press Archived 2013-11-24 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ a b "Valley News Group - About us". Archived from the original on 2013-11-02. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
  16. ^ Angeleno magazine
  17. ^ a b c Westside Today - Letter From The Publisher Archived 2013-11-02 at the Wayback Machine
  18. ^ Discover Hollywood Magazine
  19. ^ Entertainment Weekly Moving Headquarters to Los Angeles
  20. ^ The Reader Magazine
  21. ^ Los Angeles Confidential
  22. ^ "Clamor Público Archive". Newspapers.com. 2 February 1856. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  23. ^ "Crónica Archive". Newspapers.com. 11 January 1873. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  24. ^ a b c d Eastern Group Publications - About Us
  25. ^ "Los Angeles Daily News Archive". Newspapers.com. 9 January 1872. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  26. ^ "Los Angeles Evening Telegram Archive". Newspapers.com. 9 September 1882. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  27. ^ "AMQ AM Radio Database Query". Federal Communications Commission. Archived from the original on August 25, 2009. Retrieved 2014-08-10.
  28. ^ "FMQ FM Radio Database Query". Federal Communications Commission. Archived from the original on August 25, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
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