This is a list of media publications and sources in Louisville, Kentucky .
This is a list of media publications and sources in Louisville, Kentucky .
The local daily newspaper in Louisville is The Courier-Journal , a property of the Gannett chain.
Local weekly newspapers include Business First of Louisville , Louisville Defender (African American paper published since 1933), Louisville Eccentric Observer (or LEO, a free alternative paper) and The Voice-Tribune.
Louisville Magazine , published monthly, highlights the city's culture and lifestyles.
Louisville is also well served by television. Louisville's television stations include:
| Call letters | Channel | Network affiliation |
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| WAVE | 3 (Cable 6) | (NBC) |
| WHAS | 11 (Cable 4) | (ABC) |
| WKPC | 15 (Cable 13) | (PBS/KET1) |
| WBNA | 21 (Cable 21) | (Ind) |
| WMYO-CD | 24 (Cable 138) | (Laff) |
| MetroTV | 25 (Cable Only) | Louisville Metro affairs |
| WLKY | 32 (Cable 5) | (CBS) |
| WDRB | 41 (Cable 9) | (FOX) |
| WBKI WBKI-3 | 58 (Cable 7) 58.3 (Cable 10) | (CW) (MyNetworkTV) |
| WKMJ | 68 (Cable 15) | (PBS/KET2) |
The only cable service available in Louisville is from Charter Communications (doing business as Spectrum). They provide standard and premium cable TV service, high-speed Internet access and digital telephone service.
Louisville's radio broadcasting stations cater to a wide variety of musical and other interests.
| Call letters | AM frequency | Type | Special notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Channel | 530 | Information | |
| WAKY | 620 | Classic Hits | simulcast on WAKY-FM/103.5, W261CO/100.1, and W292FS/106.3 |
| WHBE | 680 | Sports | ESPN Radio affiliate |
| WKRD | 790 | Sports | |
| WHAS | 840 | News/Talk | |
| WFIA | 900 | Christian | |
| WGTK | 970 | News/Talk | |
| WLCR | 1040 | Christian | EWTN Catholic radio |
| WKJK | 1080 | Talk | |
| WLLV | 1240 | Southern Gospel | |
| WLOU | 1350 | Urban Oldies | simulcast on W297BV/104.7 |
| WLRS | 1570 | News/Talk | |
| NOAA Weather Radio [1] | 1610 | Weather | |
| Trimarc Traffic Channel [2] | 1610 | Traffic | Louisville Metro traffic |
Louisville is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States. By land area, it is the country's 24th-largest city. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border.
The Courier Journal, also known as the Louisville Courier Journal (and informally The C-J or The Courier), and called The Courier-Journal between November 8, 1868, and October 29, 2017, is the highest circulation newspaper in Kentucky. It is owned by Gannett and billed as "Part of the USA Today Network". According to the 1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook, the paper is the 48th-largest daily paper in the United States.
WHAS is an AM radio station owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and licensed to Louisville, Kentucky. Its studios are located in the Louisville enclave of Watterson Park, and the transmitter site is in Long Run, in far east Jefferson County. First licensed in July 1922, it is the oldest radio station in Kentucky.
WAVE is a television station in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Gray Television. The station's studios are located on South Floyd Street in downtown Louisville, and its transmitter is located in Floyds Knobs, Indiana.
WHAS-TV is a television station in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, affiliated with ABC. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station maintains studios on West Chestnut Street in Downtown Louisville, and its transmitter is located in rural northeastern Floyd County, Indiana.
Nashville, Tennessee is the 29th largest media market in the United States with roughly 966,000 homes, 0.8% of the country's media market.
Kentucky Educational Television (KET) is a state network of PBS member television stations serving the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is operated by the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television, an agency of the Kentucky state government, which provides more than half of its annual funding. KET is the dominant public broadcaster in the commonwealth, with transmitters covering the vast majority of the state as well as parts of adjacent states; the only other PBS member in Kentucky is WKYU-TV in Bowling Green. KET is the largest PBS state network in the United States; the broadcast signals of its sixteen stations cover almost all of the state, as well as parts of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The network's offices, network center and primary studio facilities are located at the O. Leonard Press Telecommunications Center on Cooper Drive in Lexington; KET also has production centers in Louisville and at the Kentucky State Capitol Annex in Frankfort.
WKYT-TV is a television station in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW. The station is owned by Gray Television, and maintains studios and transmitter facilities on Winchester Road near I-75 on the east side of Lexington. In addition to WKYT-TV, Gray owns WYMT-TV in Hazard, Kentucky, a separate CBS affiliate serving eastern Kentucky with its own syndicated programming inventory and local newscasts.
WKMJ-TV is a PBS member television station in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It is the flagship station for KET2, the second television service of Kentucky Educational Television (KET), which is owned by the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television.
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Bowling Green, Kentucky is the 182nd largest media market in the United States, with roughly 78,870 homes, 0.069% of all homes in the United States. As of 2022, the Bowling Green DMA comprises Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Hart, Metcalfe, and Warren Counties in Kentucky.
The Kentucky Channel, also known by its Program and System Information Protocol short name and on-screen logo bug as KET KY, is a full-time 24/7 statewide digital television programming service originating from PBS member state-network Kentucky Educational Television. The channel features programming related to the U.S. state of Kentucky, as well as coverage of Kentucky General Assembly when it is in session.
Glasgow, Kentucky is technically considered to be part of the Bowling Green, Kentucky DMA, which is ranked as the 182nd largest media market in the United States.
The Little Rock–Pine Bluff media market, which encompasses the state capital and two of the largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. state of Arkansas, maintains a variety of broadcast, print and online media outlets serving the region. The Little Rock–Pine Bluff market includes 38 counties in the central, north-central and west-central portions of the state, serving a total population of 1,172,700 residents ages 12 and over as of 2021. As of September 2021, it is ranked as the 59th largest American television market by Nielsen Media Research and the 92nd largest American radio market by Nielsen Audio.
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