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.
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 Free Press is owned by the Gannett Company, while the News is owned by MediaNews Group. Other publications include weekly, monthly, and quarterly alternative media publications.
Daily
Weekly
- Between the Lines
- Crain's Detroit Business
- The Detroit Jewish News
- Latino Detroit
- Metro Times
- Michigan Chronicle
- Model D Media
- Detour Detroit
- Downtown (Detroit) Monitor
Monthly
- DBusiness
- Detroit Home
- Hour Detroit
- Metro Detroit Bride
- Outlier Media
- BLAC Detroit Magazine
- Metro Parent
TBD Magazine The HUB Detroit
Bi-monthly
- Ambassador
Quarterly
- INSPIREbride
Periodical
Defunct
- Clear
- Detroit Journal
- Detroit Mirror
- Detroit Sunday Journal
- Detroit Times
- Detroit Tribune
- The Michigan Citizen
- Orbit Magazine
- StyleLine
- Suznanie
- Real Detroit Weekly
Radio
Metro Detroit is currently the 12th largest radio market in the United States, as ranked by Nielsen Media Research;[1] this ranking does not take into account Canadian audiences.
(*) - indicates a non-commercial station.
AM
- 560 WRDT Monroe (Christian radio)
- 680 WNZK Dearborn Heights (Ethnic/talk)[AM 1]
- 690 WNZK Dearborn Heights (Ethnic/talk)[AM 2]
- 760 WJR Detroit (Talk radio/sports)[AM 3]
- 910 WFDF Farmington Hills (Talk radio)
- 950 WWJ Detroit (All-news radio)
- 990 WDEO Ypsilanti (Catholic)*
- 1030 WKEG Sterling Heights (Relevant Radio)*
- 1050 WTKA Ann Arbor (Sports)
- 1090 WCAR Livonia (Regional Mexican)
- 1130 WDFN Detroit (All-news/BIN)
- 1200 WMUZ Taylor (Inspirational)
- 1270 WXYT Detroit (Sports)
- 1310 WDTW Dearborn (Regional Mexican)
- 1340 WCHB Royal Oak (Gospel)
- 1400 WDTK Detroit (Conservative talk)
- 1440 WMKM Inkster (Urban gospel)
- 1460 WPON Walled Lake (Oldies)
- 1500 WLQV Detroit (Christian radio)
- ↑ Frequency is only used during nighttime hours.
- ↑ Daytime-only station.
- ↑ Clear-channel station.
FM
- 88.1 WHPR Highland Park[lower-alpha 1] (Urban oldies/talk)*
- 88.1 WBFH Bloomfield Hills[lower-alpha 2] (Campus/variety)*
- 88.1 WSDP Plymouth[lower-alpha 3] (Campus/AC)*
- 88.1 WSMF Monroe[lower-alpha 4] (Christian contemporary)*
- 88.3 WSHJ Southfield[lower-alpha 5] (Campus/urban)*
- 88.3 WXOU Auburn Hills[lower-alpha 6] (Campus/variety)*
- 88.3 WCBN-FM Ann Arbor[lower-alpha 7] (Campus/freeform)*
- 89.1 WPHS Warren[lower-alpha 8] (Campus/variety)*
- 89.1 WEMU Ypsilanti[lower-alpha 7] (Jazz/Blues/AAA)*
- 89.3 WBLD Orchard Lake (Campus/variety)*
- 89.5 WOVI Novi[lower-alpha 3] (Campus/variety)*
- 89.5 WAHS Auburn Hills[lower-alpha 8] (Campus/variety)*
- 90.3 KDTI Rochester Hills (K-Love Christmas)*
- 90.9 WRCJ Detroit (Classical/jazz)*
- 91.7 WUOM Ann Arbor (NPR)*
- 92.3 WMXD Detroit (Urban AC)
- 93.1 WUFL Detroit (Christian)
- 93.5 WHMI Howell (Classic hits)
- 94.3 WERW Monroe (AC/classic hits)
- 94.7 WCSX Birmingham (Classic rock)
- 95.5 WKQI Detroit (Contemporary hit radio)
- 96.3 WDVD Detroit (Hot AC)
- 97.1 WXYT Detroit (Sports)
- 97.9 WJLB Detroit (Urban contemporary)
- 98.7 WDZH Detroit (Alternative rock)
- 99.5 WYCD Detroit (Country)
- 100.3 WNIC Dearborn (Adult contemporary)
- 101.1 WRIF Detroit (Active rock)
- 101.9 WDET Detroit (NPR)*
- 102.7 WDKL Mount Clemens (K-Love)*
- 103.5 WMUZ-FM Detroit (Christian/Crawford)
- 104.3 WOMC Detroit (Classic hits)
- 105.1 WMGC-FM Detroit (Classic hip hop)
- 105.9 WDMK Detroit (Urban AC)
- 106.7 WLLZ Detroit (Classic rock)
- 107.1 WQKL Ann Arbor (AAA)
- 107.5 WGPR Detroit (Mainstream urban)
LPFM
- 96.7 WNUC-LP Detroit[lower-alpha 9] (Community)*
- 96.7 WFCB-LP Ferndale[lower-alpha 10] (Community)*
Canadian AM
- 580 CKWW Windsor (Oldies)
- 630 CFCO Chatham-Kent (Country)
- 800 CKLW Windsor (Talk radio)
- 1550 CBEF Windsor[lower-alpha 11] (Ici Radio-Canada Première)*
Canadian FM
- 88.7 CIMX-FM Windsor (Country)
- 89.9 CBE-FM Windsor[lower-alpha 11] (CBC Music)*
- 93.9 CIDR-FM Windsor (Contemporary hit radio)
- 95.9 CJWF-FM Windsor (Country)
- 96.7 CHYR-FM Leamington (Hot AC)
- 97.5 CBEW-FM Windsor[lower-alpha 11] (CBC Radio One)*
- 99.1 CJAM-FM Windsor (Campus/variety)*
- 100.7 CKUE-FM-1[lower-alpha 12] Windsor (Adult hits)
- 102.3 CINA-FM Windsor (Multilingual)
- 103.9 CJBC-FM-1[lower-alpha 13] Windsor[lower-alpha 11] (Ici Musique)*
- 105.5 CBEF-2-FM[lower-alpha 14] Windsor[lower-alpha 11] (Ici Radio-Canada Première)*
Notes
- ↑ Signal covers Highland Park and parts of Downtown Detroit
- ↑ Signal covers northern suburbs
- 1 2 Signal covers western suburbs
- ↑ Signal covers Monroe and southern suburbs
- ↑ Signal covers Southfield and the northern portion of Detroit
- ↑ Signal covers the northeastern portion of Oakland County
- 1 2 Signal covers Ann Arbor and southwestern suburbs
- 1 2 Signal covers northeastern suburbs
- ↑ Signal covers parts of Downtown Detroit
- ↑ Signal covers Oak Park, Royal Oak and parts of Downtown Detroit
- 1 2 3 4 5 CBC/Radio-Canada station
- ↑ Rebroadcaster of Chatham-Kent station CKUE-FM
- ↑ Rebroadcaster of Toronto station CJBC-FM
- ↑ Rebroadcaster of CBEF
TV
The Detroit television market is the 12th largest in the United States,[2] 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, and Daystar and two station duopolies owned by Paramount Global and E.W. Scripps Company.
Full-power
- 2 WJBK Detroit (Fox)*
- 4 WDIV-TV Detroit (NBC)
- 7 WXYZ-TV Detroit (ABC)
- 20 WMYD Detroit (The CW)
- 31 WPXD-TV Ann Arbor (Ion Television)
- 38 WADL Mount Clemens (MyNetworkTV)
- 50 WKBD-TV Detroit (Independent)
- 56 WTVS Detroit (PBS)
- 62 WWJ-TV Detroit (CBS)*
Low-power
- 3 WHNE-LD Detroit (TheGrioTV)
- 18 WDWO-CD Detroit (Vision Latina)
- 19 WUDL-LD Detroit (Infomercials)
- 23 WUDT-LD Detroit (Daystar)*
- 28 WLPC-CD Redford (The Impact Network)
- 33 WHPS-CD Detroit (Independent/WHPR-FM/WVIE)
(*) - indicates channel is a network owned-and-operated station.
Cable
Canadian viewership
Most of Metro Detroit receives stations from adjacent Windsor, Ontario, most notably, CBC Television owned-and-operated station CBET-DT. Conversely, multiple television stations in Detroit enjoy Canadian viewership and consider the market as part of their primary audience.
Internet
Media corporations
- Adell Broadcasting Corporation
- Detroit Media Partnership
- The Word Network
- Graham Media Group
See also
References
- ↑ "True Market | Radio Audience Ratings". www.rab.com. Retrieved October 10, 2021.
- ↑ Nielsen Media Research Local Universe Estimates (9/24/05) Archived 2006-05-17 at the Wayback Machine The Nielsen Company
Bibliography
- Silas Farmer (1890). "(Newspapers)". History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan: a Chronological Cyclopedia (3rd ed.). Detroit. hdl:2027/mdp.39015071373867 – via HathiTrust.
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External links
- City of Detroit Culture
- Knight Wallace Fellows at Michigan
- No Kiddie Without a Christmas — WBGU-TV documentary about the Goodfellows and Old Newsboys Goodfellow Fund