Media
The major daily newspaper is the New Orleans Times-Picayune, publishing since 1837. Other alternative weekly publications include The Louisiana Weekly and Gambit Weekly.
Greater New Orleans is well served by television and radio. The market is the 43rd largest Designated Market Area (DMA) in the U.S., serving 672,150 homes and 0.610% of the U.S. Major television network affiliates serving the area include WWL 4 (CBS), WGNO 26 (ABC), WDSU 6 (NBC), WVUE 8 (FOX), WNOL 38 (WB), WUPL 54 (UPN), and WPXL 49 (ION). PBS stations include WYES 12 and WLAE 32. WHNO 20 also operates as an independent station in the area, providing mainly religious programming.
Radio stations serving Greater New Orleans include:
- Jazz: WWNO-FM (88.9), WWOZ-FM (90.7), WTUL-FM (91.5)
- Classical: WWNO-FM (89.9)
- Country: WNOE-FM (101.1)
- Contemporary: KLRZ-FM (100.3), WLMG-FM (101.9), WDVW-FM (92.3)
- Gospel/Christian: KHEV-FM (104.1), WYLD-AM (940), WBSN-FM (89.1), WLNO-AM (1060), WSHO-FM (800), WOPR-FM (94.9), WVOG-AM (600)
- Latino: KGLA-AM (1540), WFNO-FM (830)
- Oldies: WTIX-FM (94.3), WJSH-FM (104.7), WMTI-FM (106.1)
- Public: WRBH-FM (88.3), WWNO-FM (89.9)
- Rock: KKND-FM (106.7), WRNO-FM (99.5), WEZB-FM (97.1), WKBU-FM (95.7)
- Sports: WODT-AM (1280)
- Talk: WWL-AM (870), WWL-FM (105.3), WSMB-AM (1350), WIST-AM (690)
- Urban/Urban Contemporary: KMEZ-FM (102.9),KNOU-FM (104.5), WQUE-FM (93.3), WYLD-FM (98.5)
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Famous quotes containing the word media:
“The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“Never before has a generation of parents faced such awesome competition with the mass media for their children’s attention. While parents tout the virtues of premarital virginity, drug-free living, nonviolent resolution of social conflict, or character over physical appearance, their values are daily challenged by television soaps, rock music lyrics, tabloid headlines, and movie scenes extolling the importance of physical appearance and conformity.”
—Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)
“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one’s ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the “educational system” are the prime sources of racism in the United States.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)