Media
The city's only daily newspaper is The Sheboygan Press, which has been published since 1907. The free papers The Sheboygan Sun and The Beacon are each mailed weekly to area residents and feature classified ads and other local content.
As Sheboygan is located mid-way between Green Bay and Milwaukee, residents of the city can choose from television and radio stations originating within each of those areas. A. C. Nielsen places Sheboygan within the Milwaukee market, although Green Bay stations also report news, events, and weather warnings pertaining to Sheboygan and target the city with advertising.
Arbitron places Sheboygan and Sheboygan County within one radio market, and several stations serve the area. Midwest Communications owns four stations within the county, including talk station WHBL (1330); country station WBFM (93.7); CHR/Top 40 WXER (104.5 from Plymouth, with a translator station on 96.1 in Sheboygan); and active rock WHBZ (106.5), all of which transmit from a three-tower site on Sheboygan's south side. Fox Sports Radio affiliate WCLB (950) also serves the city, along with the Sheboygan Area School District's WSHS (91.7), a member of the Wisconsin Public Radio Ideas Network, and Plymouth's WJUB (1420), a standards station.
Various religious stations originating from north of Green Bay and Milwaukee via low-power translator stations, including a translator for Kiel's WSTM (91.3), and NOAA Weather Radio station WWG91, all broadcast from a tower north of Superior Avenue along the west side of Interstate 43.
The city is served by Charter Communications, with public-access television cable TV programming origination from WSCS. The city formerly had one licensed television station, WPVS-LP, which is currently off the air due to the digital switchover. In 2011, the station was re-licensed to Milwaukee as a future ethnic broadcaster, and the station's new transmitter in Milwaukee will not reach Sheboygan with service. Channel 28 was reserved for the city in the analog age, but was never utilized by any broadcaster outside of an abandoned construction permit for a television sister to WHBL in the past.
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