Oklahoma City - Media

Media

The Oklahoman is Oklahoma City's major metro newspaper and is the most widely circulated in the state. Oklahoma Gazette is Oklahoma City's independent newsweekly, featuring such staples as local commentary, feature stories, restaurant reviews and movie listings and music and entertainment. The Journal Record is Oklahoma City's daily business newspaper and okcBIZ is a monthly publication that covers business news affecting those who live and work in Central Oklahoma.

There are various community and international papers in the city that cater to the ethnic mosaic of the city; such as The Black Chronicle, headquartered in the Eastside, the OK VIETIMES and Oklahoma Chinese Times, located in Asia District, and various Hispanic publications. The Campus is the student newspaper at Oklahoma City University. Gay publications include Gossip Boy, which despite its name has become known for adventurous undercover work and investigative journalism that has attracted a national audience, and The Gayly Oklahoman.

An upscale lifestyle publication called Slice Magazine is produced by local publisher Southwestern Publishing and circulated throughout the metro. In addition is a magazine published by Back40 Design Group called The Edmond Outlook. It contains local commentary and human interest pieces direct-mailed to over 50,000 Edmond residents.

Oklahoma City was home to several pioneers in radio and television broadcasting. Oklahoma City's WKY Radio was the first radio station transmitting west of the Mississippi River and the third radio station in the United States. WKY received its federal license in 1921 and has continually broadcast under the same call letters since 1922. In 1928, WKY was purchased by E.K. Gaylord's Oklahoma Publishing Company and affiliated with NBC; in 1949, WKY-TV went on the air and became the first independently-owned television station in the U.S. to broadcast in color. In mid-2002, WKY was purchased outright from the Gaylord family by Citadel Communications who owns and operates it to this day.

All the major U.S. broadcast television networks have affiliates in the Oklahoma City market (ranked 44th for television by Nielsen and 48th for radio by Arbitron, and serves a 34-county area covering the central, northern and west-central Oklahoma), including KFOR 4 (NBC), KOCO 5 (ABC), KWTV 9 (CBS), KETA 13 (PBS; flagship of the state-run OETA member network), KOKH 25 (Fox), KOCB 34 (CW) and KSBI 52 (MNTV); despite the market's geographical size, none of the English-language commercial stations in the Oklahoma City DMA operate full-power satellite stations in the northwest part of the state (requiring cable or satellite to view them), though KFOR-TV operates two low-power translators in that portion of the market. Oklahoma City is one of the few markets located east of Amarillo, north of Dallas and west of Chicago to have affiliates of two or more of the major Spanish-language broadcast networks: KTUZ 30 (Telemundo), Woodward-based KUOK 35 (Univision, its translators KUOK-CD 36 and KUOK-LP 48 serve the immediate Oklahoma City area) and KOHC-CD 45 (Azteca America).