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

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that includes

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(

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s and magazines) and

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(

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and

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

) in

Monterey County, California Monterey County ( ), officially the County of Monterey, is a county located on the Pacific coast in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, its population was 439,035. The county's largest city and county seat is Salinas. Monte ...

. It includes the cities of

Monterey Monterey (; es, Monterrey; Ohlone: ) is a city located in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on the U.S. state of California's Central Coast. Founded on June 3, 1770, it functioned as the capital of Alta California under bot ...

and Salinas, as well as the towns in the

Salinas Valley The Salinas Valley is one of the major valleys and most productive agricultural regions in California. It is located west of the San Joaquin Valley and south of San Francisco Bay and the Santa Clara Valley. The Salinas River, which geologically ...

in the

Central Coast of California The Central Coast is an area of California, roughly spanning the coastal region between Point Mugu and Monterey Bay. It lies northwest of Los Angeles County and south of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, and includes the rugged, undevelope ...

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 - (

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 ...

) - Salinas (Comcast Cable 7) * KSBW - channel 8: - (

NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters are l ...

) - Salinas (Comcast Cable 6) * KMUV-LD - channel 23: - (

Telemundo Telemundo (; formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is owned by Comcast. It provides content nationally with pr ...

) - Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz (Simulcast of KSTS 48) * KQET - channel 25: - (

PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educat ...

) - Watsonville (Simulcast of San Francisco's KQED) * KYMB-LD - channel 27 - (

This TV This TV (also known as This TV Network and alternately stylized as thisTV) is an American free-to-air television network owned by Allen Media Broadcast Networks, LLC, part of the Allen Media Group division of Entertainment Studios. Originally f ...

) - 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 i ...

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

Fox Broadcasting Company The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps as FOX, is an Television in the United States, American Commercial broadcasting, commercial terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by Fox C ...

) - Salinas (Comcast Cable 3) * KBIT-LD - channel 43: - (

Azteca América Azteca América (, sometimes shortened to Azteca) is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by INNOVATE Corp., which acquired the network from the Azteca International Corporation subsidiary of TV Azteca. Headquartere ...

) - Monterey/Salinas * KION - channel 46: - (

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...

) - Monterey (Comcast Cable 5) * KSMS-TV - channel 67: - (

Univision Univision () is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the Latino public and includes ...

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

KRON KRON-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, KRON-TV maintains studios on Front Street in the c ...

) - Bay Area (Comcast Cable 193)

ABC affiliate

The Monterey-Salinas area lost its

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broadcast affiliate in 2000, when KNTV was purchased, and then became the NBC station for the San Francisco Oakland San Jose metropolitan area. KNTV later moved its tower from

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

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

ABC O&O

KGO-TV KGO-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's ABC network outlet. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, KGO-TV ma ...

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

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stations: * SalinasRadio (Monterey County)

Newspapers

* '' Carmel Pine Cone'' * '' Cedar Street Times'' * '' Gonzales Tribune'' * '' Greenfield News'' * '' King City Rustler'' * ''

The Monterey County Herald ''The Monterey County Herald'', sometimes referred to as the ''Monterey Herald'', is a daily newspaper published in Monterey, California that serves Monterey County. In December, 2013, the Herald's parent company Media News Group merged to become ...

'' * ''

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''

Magazines

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

References

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