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Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...
is home to the first commercial radio station in the United States, KDKA 1020AM; the first community-sponsored television station in the United States, WQED 13; the first "networked" television station and the first station in the country to broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, KDKA 2; and the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, the ''
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Descended from the ''Pittsburgh Gazette'', established in 1786 as the first newspaper published west of the All ...
''. Until 2016 Pittsburgh was one of the few mid-sized metropolitan areas in the U.S. with two major daily papers; both the ''
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Descended from the ''Pittsburgh Gazette'', established in 1786 as the first newspaper published west of the All ...
'' and the ''
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'', also known as "the Trib," is the second largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Although it transitioned to an all-digital format on December 1, 2016, it rem ...
'' have histories of breaking in-depth investigative news stories on a national scale. In 2016, the Tribune-Review moved to an all-digital format. The Post-Gazette moved to publishing five print editions a week in 2018, three print editions a week in 2019, and two print editions a week in 2021. The alternative papers in the region include the '' Pittsburgh City Paper''; '' Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle''; ''The New People'', published weekly by the Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Social Justice; the '' New Pittsburgh Courier'', one of the larger ethnic publications in the region; and
Zajedničar (''Fraternalist'') is a newspaper of the Croatian Fraternal Union of America (CFU), a fraternal benefit society of the Croatian diaspora. The magazine was started in 1904, during the CFU's presidency of Josip Marohnić, its founder and the first ...
, the only Croatian-language newspaper currently published in the United States. ''
The Pitt News ''The Pitt News'' is an independent, student-written and student-managed newspaper for the main campus of the University of Pittsburgh in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The Pitt News has been active in some form since 1910 and is publish ...
'', a financially independent student-written and -managed newspaper of the
University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the universit ...
, is closing in on its 100th year of publication. The University of Pittsburgh School of Law also hosts
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, the world's only university-based legal news service.


Newspapers

This is a list of newspapers in Pittsburgh, including print and online. *Major newspapers: **''
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Descended from the ''Pittsburgh Gazette'', established in 1786 as the first newspaper published west of the All ...
'' **''
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'', also known as "the Trib," is the second largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Although it transitioned to an all-digital format on December 1, 2016, it rem ...
'' *Alternative newspapers: **'' Pittsburgh City Paper'' **''
Pittsburgh Current The Pittsburgh Current is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The paper is distributed on Wednesdays and covers local news and arts. It was founded in 2018 by Charlie Deitch to promote Freedom of the press claiming his ...
'' *Specialty newspapers: **''
The Bulletin Bulletin or The Bulletin may refer to: Periodicals (newspapers, magazines, journals) * Bulletin (online newspaper), a Swedish online newspaper * ''The Bulletin'' (Australian periodical), an Australian magazine (1880–2008) ** Bulletin Debate, ...
'' **'' The Front Weekly'' **'' Green Tree Times'' (western city neighborhoods and suburbs) **'' Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle'' **'' NewPeople'' (Published by Thomas Merton Center) **''
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'' (northern city neighborhoods) **''
Pittsburgh Business Times American City Business Journals, Inc. (ACBJ) is an American newspaper publisher based in Charlotte, North Carolina. ACBJ publishes The Business Journals, which contains local business news for 44 markets in the United States, Hemmings Motor News ...
'' **'' Pittsburgh Catholic'' **'' Pittsburgh Courier'' (African-American community) **'' Print'' (eastern city neighborhoods) **'' Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents'' **'' South Pittsburgh Reporter'' (southern city neighborhoods and suburbs) **''
Zajedničar (''Fraternalist'') is a newspaper of the Croatian Fraternal Union of America (CFU), a fraternal benefit society of the Croatian diaspora. The magazine was started in 1904, during the CFU's presidency of Josip Marohnić, its founder and the first ...
'' *Academic newspapers: **'' The Duquesne Duke'' **''
The Pitt News ''The Pitt News'' is an independent, student-written and student-managed newspaper for the main campus of the University of Pittsburgh in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The Pitt News has been active in some form since 1910 and is publish ...
'' **'' The (CMU) Tartan'' **''
University Times The ''University Times'' is a bi-weekly, independent newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by the University of Pittsburgh since 1968. It primarily serves as the faculty and staff newspaper of the university, but is also distributed at ...
'' **'' The (PPU) Globe'' *Online newspapers: **''
The Incline The Incline is an online newspaper focused on the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania region. Launched in 2016, the news outlet curates syndicated content and produces original stories aimed towards millennials. Instead of ads, The Incline's revenue comes ...
'' **'' NEXTPittsburgh'' **'' PublicSource''


Magazines and journals

*Variety: **'' Jenesis Magazine'' **'' LOCALPittsburgh Magazine'' **''
Pittsburgh Magazine Pittsburgh Magazine is a lifestyle magazine covering the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. It hosts an annual "40 Under 40" featuring prominent young Pittsburghers. It's known for listicles including Pittsburgh's 25 Best Restaurants, Best of the 'Burg ...
'' **'' Pittsburgh Parent'' **''
Pittsburgh Quarterly ''Pittsburgh Quarterly'' is a commerce and culture magazine in Western Pennsylvania, published four times per year with more than 30 distinctive stories every quarter. Topics range from regional indicators, timely issues in Greater Pittsburgh, bo ...
'' **'' Table Magazine'' **''
WHIRL Magazine ''WHIRL Magazine'' is a lifestyle and sports magazine published in Pittsburgh, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, ...
'' *Academic: **''Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture'' (digital journal) **''
Creative Nonfiction Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction or literary journalism or verfabula) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contra ...
'' (magazine) **'' Hot Metal Bridge'' **''
Journal of Law and Commerce The ''Journal of Law and Commerce'' is a law review published by an independent student group at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, focusing on domestic and international commercial and business law. The journal is published biannually, wi ...
'' **'' Pittsburgh Journal of Environmental and Public Health Law'' **'' Pittsburgh Journal of Technology Law & Policy'' **''
Pittsburgh Tax Review The ''Pittsburgh Tax Review'' is a journal of legal scholarship published by an independent student group at University of Pittsburgh School of Law The University of Pittsburgh School of Law (Pitt Law) was founded in 1895. It became a charter ...
'' **'' Sampsonia Way Magazine'' **''
Three Rivers Review ''Three Rivers Review'', or ''Three Rivers Review of Undergraduate Literature'', is a literary magazine published by the University of Pittsburgh Honors College. Three Rivers Review was established in the Fall of 1995 as a student produced magazi ...
'' **''
University of Pittsburgh Law Review The ''University of Pittsburgh Law Review'' is a journal of legal scholarship edited by an independent student group at University of Pittsburgh School of Law and published by the D-Scribe Digital Publishing program at the University Library Sys ...
'' *Promotional/Alumni **Carlow University Magazine ( Carlow University) **Connected (
La Roche University La Roche University is a Private education, private university in McCandless, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1963 by the Congregation of the Sisters of Divine Providence, Sisters of Divine Providence as a Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic c ...
) **Pitt Magazine (
University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the universit ...
) **Pitt Med (University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences) **The Point ( Point Park University)


Television

The Pittsburgh TV market is currently ranked as the 23rd largest in the
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by Nielsen. It has recently gained distinction as one of the most competitive. (In the listing below the table, network O&O's are denoted in bold.) The market is served by: *
VHF Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) from 30 to 300 megahertz (MHz), with corresponding wavelengths of ten meters to one meter. Frequencies immediately below VHF ...
: ** KDKA 2 ( CBS) ** WTAE 4 (
ABC ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet. ABC or abc may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting * American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster ** Disney–ABC Television ...
) ** WPXI 11 ( NBC) ** WQED 13 (
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 ...
) *** This PBS member station is a major contributor to national media as the source for '' Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'', '' National Geographic Explorer'', '' Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?'', and '' Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood''. *
UHF Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (on ...
: ** WEPA-CD 16 ** WPCW 19 ( CW) ** WPNT 22 ( MyNetworkTV) ** WIIC-LD 31 ** WBYD-CD 39 ** WINP 38 (
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) ** WPCB 40 ( Cornerstone) ** WPGH 53 (
FOX Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull, upright, triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or ''brush''). Twelve sp ...
) * Cable news stations: ** Pitt Panthers TV ** Pittsburgh Cable News Channel **
AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh is an American regional sports network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through its sports unit as part of the AT&T SportsNet brand of networks and is an affiliate of Bally Sports. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, the chann ...
*
Digital television Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals. At the time of its development it was considered an innovative advanc ...
stations: ** KNNP-TV


Radio

Pittsburgh radio has long been dominated by KDKA 1020 AM. However, as of early 2006 the station is no longer No. 1 in the ratings.
KQV KQV (1410 AM) is a non-commercial radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and covering the Greater Pittsburgh Region. Owned by Broadcast Educational Communications, the station simulcasts FM 88.1 WKGO in Murrysville and airs an easy liste ...
1410 AM, now an all-news outlet, was Pittsburgh's dominant Top 40 station throughout the 1960s. On the FM dial, album-rock WDVE (102.5 DVE), modern rock WXDX (105.9 The X), adult contemporary WBZZ (Star 100.7), pop and hip-hop WKST-FM (96.1 KissFM) and Pittsburgh Sports Talk on (93.7 The Fan) KDKA-FM FM talk radio is available in the Pittsburgh market at WPGB (104.7 FM NewsTalk). Pittsburgh is also home to three public radio stations: WESA, the local NPR station;
WQED-FM WQED-FM (89.3 MHz) is a non-commercial, public radio station licensed to serve Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by WQED Multimedia, and broadcasts a classical format. It is a sister station to the Pittsburgh area's PBS member statio ...
, a listener-supported commercial-free classical music station; and
WYEP WYEP-FM (91.3 MHz) is a listener-supported non-commercial radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It carries an Adult Album Alternative (AAA) radio format and is run by the Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation, along with 90.5 WESA ...
91.3FM, the nation's third-largest independent "adult album alternative" (AAA) station, which hosts the locally produced environmental radio show ''The Allegheny Front'' and also carries some NPR programming. The
Radio Information Service The Radio Information Service or RIS was a reading service for the blind in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that was carried via subcarrier on WDUQ in Pittsburgh. Prior to closing in 2009, the RIS weekly audience was 1,200 listeners with two-thirds ...
, broadcasting on a
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of WESA provides special programming for the blind and print impaired. Additionally, Pittsburgh hosts the non-commercial radio stations WRCT (affiliated with
Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...
) and
WPTS WPTS-FM (92.1 MHz is a non-commercial radio station owned by the University of Pittsburgh, and offers a mix of student-run programming, ranging from music programming to news and sports coverage. The station operates with an ERP of 16 watts, and ...
(affiliated with the
University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the universit ...
). *


DMA

In 2010, Nielsen will continue to rank Pittsburgh as the 23rd largest television Designated Market Area (DMA) in the country, with 1,154,950 households. That is a drop from Nielsen's 2009 estimate of 1,156,460. Despite the decline in households, Pittsburgh still has 22,090 more households than the next closest television DMA which is Charlotte, NC. In 2004
Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...
was the 24th largest DMA in the U.S. as ranked by population, with a population of 2,881,200. Pittsburgh's DMA covers a land area of in three states. Other definitions of the " Pittsburgh region" extend into Ohio border counties with some sources including several Ohio counties and as far south & west as the Kentucky border and north into the extreme southwest of New York State. The Pittsburgh DMA includes the following counties: Pennsylvania counties: * Allegheny *
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* Fayette *
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* Greene *
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Lawrence Lawrence may refer to: Education Colleges and universities * Lawrence Technological University, a university in Southfield, Michigan, United States * Lawrence University, a liberal arts university in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States Preparator ...
* Venango *
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* Westmoreland West Virginia counties: * Monongalia *
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Maryland counties: * Garrett


References


External links


Pittsburgh, PA on American Radio Map (Radiomap.us)
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Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...