Media in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh 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. 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 and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 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, the only Croatian-language newspaper currently published in the United States. The Pitt News, a financially independent student-written and -managed newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh, is closing in on its 100th year of publication. The University of Pittsburgh School of Law also hosts JURIST, the world's only university-based legal news service.

Newspapers[]

Pittsburgh 'major newspaper' consolidation timeline

• Major newspapers:
  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  • Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Alternative newspapers:
  • Pittsburgh City Paper
  • Pittsburgh Current
• Specialty newspapers:
  • The Bulletin
  • (western city neighborhoods and suburbs)^[1]
  • Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle
  • (Published by Thomas Merton Center)^[2]
  • (northern city neighborhoods)^[3]
  • Pittsburgh Business Times
  • Pittsburgh Catholic
  • Pittsburgh Courier (African-American community)
  • (eastern city neighborhoods)^[4]
  • (southern city neighborhoods and suburbs)^[5]
  • Zajedničar
• Academic newspapers:
  • The Duquesne Duke
  • The Pitt News
  • The (CMU) Tartan
  • University Times
  • The (PPU) Globe
• Online newspapers:
  • The Incline
  • ^[6]

Magazines and journals[]

• Variety:
  • Pittsburgh Magazine
  • ^[7]
  • Pittsburgh Quarterly
  • ^[8]
  • WHIRL Magazine
• Academic:
  • Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture (digital journal)^[9]
  • Creative Nonfiction (magazine)
  • Hot Metal Bridge
  • Journal of Law and Commerce
  • Pittsburgh Journal of Environmental and Public Health Law
  • Pittsburgh Journal of Technology Law & Policy
  • Pittsburgh Tax Review
  • Sampsonia Way Magazine
  • Three Rivers Review
  • University of Pittsburgh Law Review
• Promotional/Alumni
  • Carlow University Magazine (Carlow University)^[10]
  • Connected (La Roche University)^[11]
  • Pitt Magazine (University of Pittsburgh)^[12]
  • Pitt Med (University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences)^[13]
  • The Point (Point Park University)^[14]

Television[]

The Pittsburgh TV market is currently ranked as the 23rd largest in the United States by Nielsen.^[15] It has recently gained distinction as one of the most competitive.^[16] (In the listing below the table, network O&O's are denoted in bold.) The market is served by:

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 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, a listener-supported commercial-free classical music station; and WYEP 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, broadcasting on a subcarrier 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) and WPTS (affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh).

• See also: List of radio stations in Pittsburgh and List of famous people from Pittsburgh

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.^{[17] [18]}

In 2004 Pittsburgh was the 24th largest DMA in the U.S. as ranked by population, with a population of 2,881,200.^[19] Pittsburgh's DMA covers a land area of 10,083 square miles (26,110 km²) 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:

West Virginia counties:

• Monongalia
• Preston

Maryland counties:

• Garrett

References[]

External links[]

• Pittsburgh, PA on American Radio Map (Radiomap.us)