{{Short description|none}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} Baltimore, Maryland, is a major media market, even though the city is only a 45-minute drive northeast of Washington, D.C.
The city's primary daily newspaper, ''The Baltimore Sun'', and other Baltimore-area affiliated newspapers are property of David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, who owns more than 200 television stations, including Fox 45.<ref>{{Cite web |first1=Liz |last1=Bowie |first2=Emily |last2=Sullivan |first3=Cody |last3=Boteler |date=2024-01-16 |title=The Baltimore Sun media group sold to local businessman David Smith |url=https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/the-baltimore-sun-media-group-sold-to-local-media-local-businessman-david-smith-GSYOCRC3PRE5FHNHDGHDBYFGOY/ |access-date=2024-05-15 |website=The Baltimore Banner |language=en}}</ref> Baltimore is the 24th largest television market and 21st largest radio market in the country.{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}
==Newspapers== {{see also|List of newspapers in Maryland}} {{div col|colwidth=22em}} *''Baltimore Afro-American'' *''Baltimore Beat'' *''Baltimore Business Journal'' *''Baltimore Jewish Times'' *''Baltimore Out Loud'' *''The Baltimore Sun'' *''The Daily Record'' *''The UB Post'' *''The Towerlight'' *''The Johns Hopkins News-Letter'' {{div col end}}
===Digital newspapers===
*''The Baltimore Banner'' * Baltimore Brew * Baltimore Fishbowl * ''The Real News Network'' * Technical.ly Baltimore * Wide Angle Youth Media
===Defunct newspapers=== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *''The Baltimore Banner'' (strike paper) (1965) *''Baltimore City Paper'' (1977–2017) *''The Baltimore Examiner'' (2006–2009) *''Baltimore Daily Commercial'' (1865–1867)<ref>{{Cite book| title = Baltimore daily commercial.| via = Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA| year = 1865| oclc = 09086011| access-date = 2019-04-20| url = https://lccn.loc.gov/sn83009569}}</ref> *''The Baltimore Guide'' *''Baltimore Morning Herald'' *''Baltimore News-American'' *''Baltimore Wecker'' *''The Catholic Mirror'' *''Gay Life'' (1979–2016) *''Herald of Freedom and Torch Light'' *''Telegraf'' }}
==Television== The Baltimore television market includes the city and ten counties in northeastern Maryland.<ref name=TVMarket>{{cite web | title = Maryland [TV Market Map] | work = TV Market Maps | publisher = EchoStar Knowledge Base | url = http://dishuser.org/TVMarkets/Maps/maryland.gif | access-date = 2014-08-01}}</ref> Due to Baltimore's proximity to Washington, D.C., local viewers can also receive the signal of most television stations broadcasting in the Washington television market.<ref name=TVFool>{{cite web | title = TV Signal Locator | publisher = TV Fool | url = http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29 | access-date = 2014-08-01}}</ref>
The following television stations are licensed to, and broadcast from, Baltimore:<ref name="Rabbit">{{cite web | title = Stations for Baltimore, maryland | publisher = RabbitEars.Info | url = http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=print_market&mktid=31 | access-date = 2014-08-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = TVQ TV Database Query | publisher = Federal Communications Commission | url = http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/tv-query-broadcast-station-search | access-date = 2013-08-23}}</ref>
* 2 WMAR-TV Baltimore (ABC) * 11 WBAL-TV Baltimore (NBC) * 13 WJZ-TV Baltimore (CBS)* * 24 WUTB Baltimore (Roar) * 45 WBFF Baltimore (Fox) * 54 WNUV Baltimore (The CW) * 67 WMPB Baltimore (MPT/PBS)
The market is also served by two low-power stations: WMJF-CD (channel 39) from the Towson University campus in Towson, and WQAW-LD (channel 69) in Lake Shore.<ref name="Rabbit" />
Cable channels based in the Baltimore area include: {{div col|colwidth=27em}} * Mid-Atlantic Sports Network * Public, educational, and government access (PEG) channels * Public-access television, channel 75 * Educational-access television, channel 76 * Government-access television (GATV), channel 25 {{div col end}} {{Baltimore TV |state=collapsed}}
==Radio== {{div col|colwidth=14em}} * WBAL * WBJC * WEAA * WERQ * WIYY * WJZ * WJZ-FM * WLIF * WLOY * WNST * WPOC * WQSR * WRBS * WWIN (AM) * WWIN-FM * WWMX * WYPR * WCAO * WCBM * WZBA * WZFT {{div col end}}
==Magazines== * ''Baltimore'' magazine * ''Baltimore SmartCEO''<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20111013006635/en/Randy-Thompson-named-Baltimore-SmartCEO-magazine%E2%80%99s-CEO |title=Randy Thompson named Baltimore SmartCEO magazine's CEO of the Year |newspaper=Business Wire |date=2011-10-13 |access-date=2013-06-10 }}</ref> * ''Inside Lacrosse'' * ''Grub Street (literary magazine)'' * ''32 Poems'' * ''Welter'' * ''Smartish Pace'' * ''Where What When'' * ''The Wine Advocate''
===Defunct magazines=== * ''Baltimore Saturday Visiter'' * ''The Portico'' * ''The Accountant and Advertiser'' * ''Rural Gentleman and Ladies' Companion'' * ''The Southern Review'' * ''Dirty Linen'' * ''B Woman''
==See also== * Ethnic press in Baltimore * Media in Washington, D.C. * Maryland media ** List of newspapers in Maryland ** List of radio stations in Maryland ** List of television stations in Maryland ** Media of locales in Maryland: College Park, Cumberland, Frederick, Gaithersburg
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://radiomap.us/us-md/baltimore.htm "Baltimore"] at American Radio Map
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