Media in Monterey County is a designated market area (DMA) or

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that includes print media (

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s and

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s) and broadcast media (

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and

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) in Monterey County, California. It includes the cities of Monterey and Salinas, as well as the towns in the Salinas Valley in the

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Television

The Monterey-Salinas metropolitan statistical (or service) area (MSA) is served by a variety of local television stations, and is the 124th largest designated market area (DMA) in the U.S. with 222,900 homes: *

KSBW-DT2 KSBW (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Salinas, California, United States, serving the Monterey Bay area as an affiliate of NBC and American Broadcasting Company, ABC. Owned by Hearst Television, the station has studios on John ...

- Central Coast ABC - (

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) - Salinas (Comcast Cable 7) * KSBW - channel 8: - ( NBC) - Salinas (Comcast Cable 6) * KMUV-LD - channel 23: - (

Telemundo Telemundo (; formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language Terrestrial television, terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Television and Streaming#NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a divi ...

) - Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz (Simulcast of

KSTS KSTS (channel 48) is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Telemundo network to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group al ...

48) * KQET - channel 25: - (

PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcasting, public broadcaster and Non-commercial activity, non-commercial, Terrestrial television, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly fu ...

) - Watsonville (Simulcast of San Francisco's

KQED KQED may refer to: * KQED (TV), a PBS member station in San Francisco * KQED-FM KQED-FM (88.5 MHz) is a NPR-member radio station in San Francisco, California. Its parent organization is KQED Inc., which also owns its television partners, both ...

) * KYMB-LD - channel 27 - ( This TV) - Monterey (Comcast Cable 19) * KDJT-CD - channel 33: - (

UniMás UniMás (, stylized as ''UNIMÁS'', and originally known as TeleFutura from its launch on January 14, 2002, to January 6, 2013) is an American Spanish free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. The network's programming, which is ...

) - Salinas/Monterey * KCBA - channel 35: - (

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) - Salinas (Comcast Cable 3) * KBIT-LD - channel 43: - ( Azteca América) - Monterey/Salinas * KION - channel 46: - ( CBS) - Monterey (Comcast Cable 5) * KSMS-TV - channel 67: - (

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) - Monterey (Comcast Cable 4) * KRON-TV - channel 4: - ( KRON) - Bay Area (Comcast Cable 193)

ABC affiliate

The Monterey-Salinas area lost its

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broadcast affiliate in 2000, when

KNTV KNTV (channel 11), branded as NBC Bay Area, is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's NBC network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Sta ...

was purchased, and then became the NBC station for the San Francisco Oakland San Jose metropolitan area.

later moved its tower from

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, ceasing its coverage in Monterey. At that time, ABC reached an agreement with Comcast Cable to provide a slightly-customized feed of

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ABC O&O KGO-TV for the Monterey area, branded simply as ''ABC 7'' and occasionally referred to by the mock call letters ''AABC''. On December 20, 2010, KSBW announced that they will carry ABC programming over on its second digital subchannel, which has already launched on April 18, 2011.

Radio

Radio stations Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz area of dominant influence (ADI) or continuous measurement market (CMM) that are in Monterey County.

FM

List of Monterey County FM

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stations: * KAZU - 90.3 (Pacific Grove) * KHDC - 90.9 (Chualar) * KSPB - 91.9 (Pebble Beach) * KTOM - 92.7 (Marina) * KEXA - 93.9 (King City) * KRML - 102.1 (Carmel) The Locals Station for the Monterey Bay, Rock/Indie Rock/Local Bands & local emergency information * KKHK - 95.5 (Carmel) * KWAV - 96.9 (Monterey) * KARW - 97.9 (Salinas) * KLOK - 99.5/99.9 (Greenfield) * KPRC - 100.7 (Salinas) * KCDU - 101.7 (Carmel) * KRKC - 102.1 (King City) * KDON - 102.5 (Salinas) * KRAY - 103.5 (Salinas) * KDFG - 103.9 (Monterey) * KHIP - 104.3 (Gonzales) * KOCN - 105.1 (Salinas) * KSES - 107.1 (Seaside) * KFRS - 89.9/92.9 (Soledad, King City)

AM

List of Monterey County AM

stations: * KRXA - 540 (Carmel Valley) * KSUR - 630 (Monterey) * KKMC - 880 (Gonzales) * KDBV - 980 (Salinas) * KYAA - 1200 (Monterey) * KMBY - 1240 (Monterey) * KRML - 1410 (Carmel) * KION - 1460 (Salinas) * KRKC - 1490 (King City) * KTGE - 1570 (Salinas) * The Monterey Channel - 1610 (Monterey) * Local Emergency Radio Station - 1620 (Pebble Beach)

Internet

List of Monterey County Internet Radio stations: * SalinasRadio (Monterey County)

Newspapers

* ''

Carmel Pine Cone The ''Carmel Pine Cone'' is a weekly newspaper serving the city of Carmel-by-the-Sea and the surrounding Monterey Peninsula, Carmel Valley and Big Sur region of Monterey County in central California. Despite not having a digital presence, a PDF of t ...

'' * '' Cedar Street Times'' * ''

Gonzales Tribune The ''Salinas Valley Tribune'' is a weekly paid newspaper which serves the California cities of Gonzales, Soledad, Greenfield, Salinas and surrounding Monterey County in the Salinas Valley. At one time the largest circulating paper in the county ...

'' * ''

Greenfield News The ''Greenfield News'' is a weekly newspaper founded in 1936 serving the city of Greenfield, California and the surrounding areas of southern Monterey County. Its circulation is estimated at 1,150 copies. It is a product of South County Newspapers ...

'' * ''

King City Rustler The ''King City Rustler'' is a publication that serves King City in southern Monterey County, California. The newspaper covers local news, sports, events, business, community and agriculture. The ''King City Rustler'' was purchased in July 2019 by ...

'' * '' The Monterey County Herald'' * ''

Monterey County Weekly The ''Monterey County Weekly'' (sometimes called the "Weekly," formerly the ''Coast Weekly.'') is a locally owned and independent newsmedia company founded in 1988. As per the publication's name, it publishes in print weekly, and since 2020 onli ...

'' * ''

The Salinas Californian ''The Salinas Californian'', sometimes referred to as ''The Californian'', is a digital and print newspaper published in Salinas, California, covering mainly the Salinas Valley. Founded in 1871 as ''The Salinas City Index'', it went through sever ...

'' * ''El Sol'' * ''

Soledad Bee The ''Soledad Bee'' is a weekly newspaper serving the town of Soledad, California and southern Monterey County. It has a circulation of 1,050 weekly paid readers. The paper is a member of the Soledad Chamber of Commerce The owner of the ''Soledad ...

Magazines

* ''831 Magazine'' * ''ARTWORKS Magazine'' * ''Carmel Magazine'' * ''Coastal Canine Magazine''Coastal Canine Magazine
/ref> * ''Monterey County Magazine'' * ''WestCoast Magazine''

References

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