This is a list of media serving the Omaha metropolitan area in Omaha, Nebraska and Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Start dates are for the frequency/station license, not for callsign or programming that may have moved from license to license. Omaha radio stations gets 25 Analog FM stations, 10 Digital HD Radio FM stations including 8 subchannels Like HD-2 and HD-3, 11 Analog AM stations, and 1 Digital HD Radio AM Station affiliated KFAB.
AM radio stations | ||||||
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Frequency | HD | Call sign | Name | Format | Owner | City |
590 AM | Repeats on KEZO-HD2 | KXSP | AM 590 ESPN Radio | Sports | SummitMedia | Omaha, Nebraska |
660 AM | No | KCRO | Omaha's Christian Talk | Christian Talk | Hickory Radio | Omaha, Nebraska |
1020 AM | No | KMMQ | La Preciosa | Spanish (Regional Mexican) | NRG Media | Plattsmouth/Omaha |
1110 AM | 1 | KFAB | NewsRadio 1110 | News/Talk | iHeartMedia, Inc. | Omaha, Nebraska |
1180 AM | No | KZOT | The Zone 2 | Sports | NRG Media | Bellevue/Omaha |
1290 AM | No | KOIL | -- | News/Talk | NRG Media | Omaha, Nebraska |
1340 AM | No | KHUB | The Big Dog | Country | Walnut Radio | Fremont, Nebraska |
1420 AM | No | KXCB | Bluffs Country 106.5 | Country | Hickory Radio | Omaha, Nebraska |
1490 AM | No | KIBM | Boomer Radio | Oldies | Walnut Radio | Omaha, Nebraska |
1560 AM | No | KLNG | -- | Christian | Wilkins Communications | Council Bluffs, Iowa |
1620 AM | No | KOZN | The Zone Fox Sports Radio | Sports | NRG Media | Bellevue/Omaha |
Television stations in the Omaha Metro area (Ascending order) | |||||||||
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Virtual Ch. ATSC | Call | City | Owner | Start | Digital Ch. RF | DTV HD | Nickname | Programming | |
3.1 | KMTV | Omaha | E. W. Scripps Company | 1949 | 31 | 1080i | 3 News Now | CBS | |
3.2 | 720p | Grit | Grit | ||||||
3.3 | 480i | Laff | Laff | ||||||
3.4 | 480i | Mystery | Ion Mystery | ||||||
3.4 | 480i | CourtTV | Court TV | ||||||
6.1 | WOWT | Omaha | Gray Television | 1949 | 22 | 1080i | WOWT 6 News On Your Side | NBC | |
6.2 | 480i | COZI | Cozi TV | ||||||
6.3 | 480i | HandI | H&I | ||||||
6.4 | 480i | ION | Ion Television | ||||||
6.5 | 480i | StartTV | Start TV | ||||||
7.1 | KETV | Omaha | Hearst Television | 1957 | 20 | 1080i | Newswatch 7 | ABC | |
7.2 | 480i | KETV-ME | Me-TV | ||||||
15.1 | KXVO | Omaha | Mitts Telecasting (operated through SSA by Sinclair Broadcast Group) | 1995 | 29 | 1080i | TBD | TBD | |
15.2 | 480i | Charge! | Charge! | ||||||
15.3 | 480i | Stadium ! | Stadium | ||||||
26.1 | KYNE NEB PUBLIC MEDIA | Omaha | Nebraska Public Media Foundation | 1965 | 17 | 1080i | NE-PBS | PBS | |
26.2 | 1080i | NE-W | World | ||||||
26.3 | 480i | NE-C | Create | ||||||
26.4 | 480i | NE-KIDS | PBS Kids | ||||||
26.5 | 480i | NE-FNX | FNX | ||||||
27.1 | KOHA-LD | Omaha | Flood Communications of Omaha LLC | 1992 | 27 | 1080i | Telemundo Nebraska | Telemundo | |
27.2 | 720p | NCN | News Channel Nebraska (Ind.) | ||||||
27.3 | 1080i | DayStar | Daystar | ||||||
32.1 | KBIN IOWA PBS | Council Bluffs | Iowa Public Broadcasting Board | 1975 | 33 | 1080i | IOWA PBS | PBS | |
32.2 | 720p | IOWA PBS Kids | PBS Kids | ||||||
32.3 | 480i | IOWA PBS World | World | ||||||
32.4 | 480i | IOWA PBS Create | Create | ||||||
36.1 | KHIN IOWA PBS | Red Oak | Iowa Public Broadcasting Board | 1975 | 35 | 1080i | IOWA PBS | PBS | |
36.2 | 720p | IOWA PBS Kids | PBS Kids | ||||||
36.3 | 480i | IOWA PBS World | World | ||||||
36.4 | 480i | IOWA PBS Create | Create | ||||||
42.1 | KPTM | Omaha | Sinclair Broadcast Group | 1986 | 26 | 720p | FOX42 | Fox | |
42.2 | 480i | MyNetTV Dabl | MyNetworkTV Dabl | ||||||
42.3 | 480i | CW | CW | ||||||
42.4 | 480i | Comet | Comet | ||||||
The Omaha World-Herald , the Omaha Bee , and by 1900 the Omaha Daily News had developed into the city's most influential journals.
The African American community in Omaha has had several newspapers serve it. The first was the Progress, established in 1889 by Ferdinand L. Barnett. Cyrus D. Bell, an ex-slave, established the Afro-American Sentinel in 1892. In 1893 George F. Franklin started publishing the Enterprise, later published by Thomas P. Mahammitt. It was the longest lived of any of the early African American newspapers published in Omaha. The best known and most widely read of all African American newspapers in the city was the Omaha Monitor, established in 1915, edited and published by Reverend John Albert Williams. It stopped being published in 1929. In 1906, Lucille Skaggs Edwards published, The Women's Aurora, making her the first black woman to publish a magazine in Nebraska.George Wells Parker, co-founder of the Hamitic League of the World, founded the New Era in Omaha from 1920 through until 1926. The Omaha Guide was established by B.V. and C.C. Galloway in 1927. The Guide, with a circulation of over twenty-five thousand and an advertisers' list including business firms from coast to coast, was the largest African American newspaper west of the Missouri River. The Omaha Star , founded by Mildred Brown, began publication in 1938, and continues today as the only African American newspaper in Omaha. [1] [2]
Historic newspapers in the Omaha Metro area [3] alphabetical | |||||
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Name | Description | ||||
Arrow | Founded in 1854, it was the first newspaper in Omaha | ||||
Nebraskian | Founded in 1854 | ||||
Times | Founded in 1857 | ||||
Democrat | Founded in 1858 | ||||
Republican | Founded in 1858 under Dr. Gilbert C. Monell and from 1859 to 1861 was under E. D. Webster | ||||
Telegraph | Founded in 1860 | ||||
Daily Herald | Founded in 1865 under Dr. George L. Miller | ||||
Daily Evening Tribune | Founded in 1870 with Phineas W. Hitchcock as a chief stockholder | ||||
Evening Bee | Founded in 1871 | ||||
Den Danske Pioneer | The Danish Pioneer was founded in Omaha in 1872 and printed in the city until 1958 | ||||
Bee | Founded in 1874, bought by World-Herald in 1937 and closed | ||||
The Evening World | Founded in 1885; purchased The Daily Herald in 1889 | ||||
The Progress | Founded in 1889 by Ferdinand L. Barnett as an African-American newspaper | ||||
Afro-American Sentinel | Founded in 1892 by Cyrus D. Bell as an African-American newspaper | ||||
Enterprise | Founded in 1893 by George F. Franklin, later published by Thomas P. Mahammitt as an African-American newspaper | ||||
The Women's Aurora | Founded in 1906 by Lucille Skaggs Edwards | ||||
Omaha Tribune | Founded in 1912 as a national German-language weekly; publishing company still operates in Omaha as the Interstate Printing Company | ||||
Omaha Monitor | Founded in 1915 by Father John Albert Williams as an African-American newspaper | ||||
New Era | Founded in 1920 by George Wells Parker as an African-American newspaper | ||||
Omaha Guide | Founded in 1927 by B.V. and C.C. Galloway as an African-American newspaper | ||||
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