Media in Baltimore explained

Baltimore 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.^[1] Baltimore is the 24th largest television market and 21st largest radio market in the country.

Newspapers

See also: List of newspapers in Maryland.

• 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

Digital newspapers

• Baltimore Banner
• Baltimore Brew
• Baltimore Fishbowl
• The Real News Network
• Technical.ly Baltimore
• Wide Angle Youth Media

Defunct newspapers

Television

The Baltimore television market includes the city and ten counties in northeastern Maryland.^[2] 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.^[3]

The following is a list of television stations licensed to and/or broadcasting from Baltimore, with network owned-and-operated stations highlighted in bold:

!Display
Channel!Network^[4] !Callsign^[5] !City of License!Notes

2.1	ABC	WMAR-TV	Baltimore, Maryland	Broadcasts from Towson, Maryland
2.2	Grit TV
2.3	Bounce TV
2.4	Court TV Mystery
2.5	Court TV
2.6
2.7	Scripps News
11.1	NBC	WBAL-TV	Baltimore, Maryland	–
11.2	Me-TV
11.4	TheGrio.tv
13.1	CBS	WJZ-TV	Baltimore, Maryland	–
13.2	Start TV
13.3	Dabl
13.4	Fave TV
13.5	Catchy Comedy
13.6	Movies!
24.1			Baltimore, Maryland	–
45.1	FOX	WBFF	Baltimore, Maryland	–
45.2	MyNetworkTV
45.4	Charge!
54.1	CW	WNUV	Baltimore, Maryland	–
54.2	Antenna TV
54.3	Comet
54.4	Stadium
67.1	PBS	WMPB	Baltimore, Maryland	Broadcasts from studios in Owings Mills, Maryland[6]
67.2	MPT2
67.3	PBS Kids
67.4	NHK World

Two other stations broadcasting from the greater Baltimore Metropolitan Area include: WMJF-CD, an Ion Television affiliate which transmits on Channel 39 (with additional subchannels) from Towson University campus in Towson, Maryland; (Baltimore County), and

WQAW-LD, an Azteca affiliate broadcasting on Channel 69, (also with additional subchannels) in Lake Shore, Maryland (Anne Arundel County).^[4]

Cable channels based in the Baltimore area include:

• 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

Radio

• WBAL
• WBJC
• WEAA
• WERQ
• WIYY
• WJZ
• WJZ-FM
• WLIF
• WLOY
• WNST
• WPOC
• WQSR
• WRBS
• WWIN (AM)
• WWIN-FM
• WWMX
• WYPR
• WCAO
• WCBM
• WZBA
• WZFT

Magazines

• Baltimore magazine
• Baltimore SmartCEO^[7]
• Inside Lacrosse
• Grub Street (literary magazine)
• 32 Poems
• Welter
• Smartish Pace
• Where What When
• The Wine Advocate
• B Woman

Defunct magazines

• Baltimore Saturday Visiter
• The Portico
• The Accountant and Advertiser
• Rural Gentleman and Ladies' Companion
• The Southern Review
• Dirty Linen

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

External links

• "Baltimore" at American Radio Map

Notes and References

1. Web site: Liz . Bowie . Emily . Sullivan . Cody . Boteler . 2024-01-16 . The Baltimore Sun media group sold to local businessman David Smith . 2024-05-15 . The Baltimore Banner . en.
2. Web site: Maryland [TV Market Map] ]. TV Market Maps . EchoStar Knowledge Base . 2014-08-01.
3. Web site: TV Signal Locator . TV Fool . 2014-08-01.
4. Web site: Stations for Baltimore, maryland . RabbitEars.Info . 2014-08-01.
5. Web site: TVQ TV Database Query . . 2013-08-23.
6. Web site: About MPT . . 2014-08-01.
7. News: Randy Thompson named Baltimore SmartCEO magazine's CEO of the Year . Business Wire . 2011-10-13 . 2013-06-10 .