Cleveland - Media

Media

Cleveland's sole remaining daily newspaper is The Plain Dealer. Previous major newspapers in Cleveland include the afternoon newspaper, the Cleveland Press, which printed its last edition on June 17, 1982, and the Cleveland News, which ceased publication in 1960. Additional newspaper coverage includes the Thursdays-only Sun Post-Herald and Parma Sun Post, which serve a few neighborhoods on the city's west side. The city is also served by Cleveland Magazine, a regional culture magazine published monthly; Crain's Cleveland Business, a weekly business newspaper; Cleveland Jewish News, a weekly Jewish newspaper; and Cleveland Scene, a free alternative weekly paper which absorbed its competitor, the Cleveland Free Times, in 2008. In addition, nationally distributed rock magazine Alternative Press was founded in Cleveland in 1985, and the publication's headquarters remain based in the city.

Combined with nearby Akron and Canton, Cleveland is ranked as the 18th-largest television market by Nielsen Media Research (as of 2009–10). The market is served by 10 stations affiliated with major American networks including: WEWS-TV (ABC), WJW (Fox), WKYC (NBC), WOIO (CBS), WVIZ (PBS), WBNX-TV (The CW), WUAB (MNTV), WVPX-TV (ION), WQHS-DT (Univision), and WDLI-TV (TBN). The Mike Douglas Show, a nationally syndicated daytime talk show, began in Cleveland in 1961 on KYW-TV (now WKYC), while The Morning Exchange on WEWS-TV served as the model for Good Morning America. Tim Conway and Ernie Anderson first established themselves in Cleveland while working together at KYW-TV and later WJW-TV (now WJW). Anderson, the father of director Paul Thomas Anderson, both created and performed as the immensely popular Cleveland horror host Ghoulardi on WJW-TV's Shock Theater.

Cleveland is served directly by 31 AM and FM radio stations, 22 of which are licensed to the city; numerous other stations are heard from elsewhere in Northeast Ohio. News/talk station WTAM serves as the AM flagship of Cleveland's three major professional sports teams (the Browns, Cavaliers, and Indians), and as such, is frequently among the highest rated stations. Commercial FM music stations consistently round out the rest of Arbitron's top-ten: WDOK, WQAL (adult contemporary); WMJI (classic hits); WGAR-FM (country); WENZ, WZAK (hip-hop/R&B); WAKS (pop); W256BT, WMMS, WNCX (rock); and WHLK (variety hits). WCPN public radio functions as the local NPR affiliate, and WCLV is one of the few remaining commercial classical stations in the country. Cleveland's first FM sports station, WKRK-FM serves as the flagship for the Cleveland Gladiators. WKNR covers sports via ESPN Radio, and functions as the flagship for the Lake Erie Monsters; as WJW (AM), the station was once the home of Alan Freed — the Cleveland disc-jockey credited with first using and popularizing the term "rock and roll" to describe the music genre. News/talk station WHK was the 15th radio station in the United States and the first in Ohio; its former sister station, rock station WMMS (formerly WHK-FM), dominated Cleveland radio in the 1970s and 80s and was at that time one of the highest rated radio stations in the country. In 1972, WMMS Program Director Billy Bass coined the phrase "The Rock 'n' Roll Capital of the World" to describe Cleveland. In 1987, Playboy named WMMS DJ Kid Leo (Lawrence Travagliante) "The Best Disc Jockey in the Country".