Media in Detroit

The Fisher Building, a National Historic site in the City's New Center area, is home to the Fisher Theatre, with the WJR radio antenna

As the world's traditional automotive center, Detroit, Michigan, is an important source for business news. The Detroit media are active in the community through such efforts as the Detroit Free Press high school journalism program and the Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund of Detroit. Wayne State University offers a widely respected journalism program.

Newspapers and magazines

The daily newspapers serving Detroit are the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, both broadsheet publications that are published together under a joint operating agreement. The Detroit Free Press, owned by the Gannett Company, is the third largest circulating daily newspaper in the U.S., after USA Today and The Arizona Republic. The Detroit News is owned by MediaNews Group. Other publications include weekly, monthly, and quarterly alternative media publications.

Daily

• Detroit Free Press
• The Detroit News

Weekly

• Between the Lines
• Crain's Detroit Business
• The Detroit Jewish News
• Latino Detroit
• Metro Times
• Michigan Chronicle
• The Michigan Citizen
• New (Detroit) Monitor
• Real Detroit Weekly

Monthly

• DBusiness
• Detroit Home
• Hour Detroit
• Metro Detroit Bride

Bi-Monthly

• Ambassador

Quarterly

• INSPIREbride

Periodical

• Fifth Estate
• The Furnace

Defunct publications

• Clear
• Detroit Journal
• Detroit Mirror
• Detroit Sunday Journal
• Detroit Times
• Detroit Tribune
• Orbit Magazine
• StyleLine
• Suznanie

Television

WJBK studios in Southfield, Michigan

WPXD-TV offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Wintergarden was turned into a makeshift studio for ESPN during their Super Bowl XL coverage.

The Detroit television market is the 12th largest in the United States,^[1] and it has additional viewers in Ontario, Canada (Windsor and its surrounding area on broadcast and cable). Detroit is home to owned-and-operated stations of CBS, Fox, The CW, Ion Television, TCT and Daystar and two station duopolies owned by CBS Corporation and E.W. Scripps Company.

See also Media in Windsor, Ontario for Canadian stations that are received in Detroit.

Local television stations

Network owned-and-operated stations are highlighted in bold.

As a result of the many Canadian viewers within broadcast range of the Detroit television signals, the stations within Detroit consider them as part of their primary audience (such as WMYD and WTVS). News-wise, WDIV-TV and WJBK include the Canadian communities in Essex, Chatham-Kent, and Lambton Counties within their weather portions, with WJBK even granting the Ontario viewers equal prominence to the other Michigan communities in their county-by-county forecasts. In the past few years, the Detroit stations have also been stepping up their coverage of border-related and Windsor-related news as well.

Most of Metro Detroit receives stations from Windsor. Monroe County, Lenawee County, southern Washtenaw County, and most Downriver communities in Wayne County receive Toledo stations. WGTE even recognizes Southeast Michigan as part of its primary viewing area and prior to the discontinuation of local listings in 2005, the Detroit edition of TV Guide listed most of the Toledo stations as well. WTOL and WTVG are often received clearly with very strong indoor antennas, such as the Mohu Leaf 50 mile indoor antenna, as far north as Melvindale, Michigan. WGTE, WUPW-TV, and WNWO-TV require an attic antenna in cities north of Woodhaven and south of Melvindale, but it may be possible to receive them indoors on only a building's second floor in the Wyandotte area, and Southfield is likely the farthest north that Toledo stations can be received clearly. Washtenaw County, Oakland County, Macomb County, Sanilac County, St. Clair County, and Genesse County receive Flint and Lansing stations, however, it is possible during tropospheric propagation events to receive WLNS in the Downriver communities.

Eastern Monroe County and Downriver communities located closer to the Detroit River and Lake Erie can often get Cleveland stations, most commonly WEWS-TV, during instances of tropospheric propagation. In the Downriver area, during tropospheric propagation, it is possible to receive WSYM-TV, WLNS, WNWO, WLAJ, WEYI-TV, and even WBGU-TV, 87 miles away. These stations were received during events of tropospheric propagation in at least the cities of Melvindale and Wyandotte with a very advanced indoor antenna. In very rare instances in the city of Wyandotte, it is even possible to receive Fort Wayne, Indiana stations WANE-TV and WPTA.

Local cable channels

• Fox Sports Detroit
• Michigan Channel (PBS, University of Michigan)
• WOLV (University of Michigan Student TV, available on campus cable system only)
• Michigan Government Television (MGTV), based in Lansing

Radio

Detroit has the 11th largest radio market in the United States,^[2] this ranking does not take into account Canadian audiences.

AM

Canadian Stations

FM

Canadian Stations

Weather

Note: When counties are marked with an asterisk, it means that the station can be received in that county, but is not part of the primary service area.

Internet

Metro Detroit has multiple locally-focused and locally-owned websites and properties in a variety of digital media formats.

Traffic reporting

Traffic reporting has been a primary focus in the Detroit area since CKLW, the 50,000-watt powerhouse radio station located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada but broadcasting to the Detroit, Michigan market (and 28 states and 6 Canadian provinces) helped with producing the concept of traffic reporting They launched their helicopter news and traffic reporting service in the late '70s with Jo-Jo Shutty on board. She became the first female helicopter news and traffic Reporter in North America and later married well-known Canadian/American news anchor Byron MacGregor, the voice of hit recording, "The Americans". These traffic reporting services are now primarily handled by a small variety of broadcasting companies and distributed through various media: radio, television, the Internet, and more recently through cell phones, in-vehicle navigations devices, and satellite radio (Sirius/XM). The larger companies having a direct presence in the Detroit market include Westwood One, Traffic.com, and Clear Channel Communications. They have established affiliate relations with most of the radio and television stations in the Detroit market to produce daily on-air traffic reports.

Westwood One owns and operates three different traffic reporting companies: Metro Networks, Shadow Broadcast Services, and SmartRoute Systems.

Traffic.com focuses primarily on the technology aspect of traffic reporting by producing traffic information for the Internet, radio, and television.

Clear Channel Communications is the largest owner of radio stations in the United States, and produces on-air traffic reports for its own radio stations, and traffic information for in-vehicle navigational devices. They produce their traffic reports under the trademark ‘Total Traffic.’

Most of these broadcasting companies also have working relationships with the local Department of Transportation (DOT), local and state police, and government agencies to gather and distribute traffic information through the various media listed above.

AM stations

• Current AM radio stations in the Detroit market that air traffic reports to the public include:

FM stations

• FM radio stations airing traffic reports to the public include:

TV stations

• There are also television stations that broadcast traffic reports to the public including:

Media corporations

• Adell Broadcasting Corporation
• Detroit Media Partnership
• The Word Network
• Graham Media Group

See also

• Detroit celebrities
• List of films set in Detroit
• Media in Windsor, Ontario

References

External links

• City of Detroit Culture
• Knight Wallace Fellows at Michigan
• List of Metro Detroit radio stations at guide2Detroit
• No Kiddie Without a Christmas — WBGU-TV documentary about the Goodfellows and Old Newsboys Goodfellow Fund

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