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. It is one of the few mid-sized metropolitan areas in the U.S. with two major daily papers (others being Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Tampa); both the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review have long histories of Pulitzer Prizes and breaking in-depth investigative news stories on a national scale. The alternative papers in the region include the Pittsburgh City Paper; the The Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh; 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.

Outdoor advertising in the area is handled by Lamar Outdoor, who controls a majority of large posters and billboards in the region, while Clear Channel Outdoor concentrates on bus shelters (including Downtown Pittsburgh) and shopping centers in the area.

Newspapers

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Pittsburgh Press
• Pittsburgh Catholic
• Pittsburgh Courier
• Pittsburgh Business Times
• Pittsburgh City Paper
• The Bulletin
• The Front Weekly
• The Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh
• The Duquesne Duke
• The Pitt News
• The (CMU) Tartan
• Pop City
• Zajedničar

Magazine

• Pittsburgh Magazine

Television

The Pittsburgh TV market is currently ranked as the 23rd largest in the United States by Neilsen [1] The market is served by:

• VHF:
  • KDKA 2 (CBS)
  • WTAE 4 (ABC)
  • WPXI 11 (NBC)
  • WQED 13 (PBS)
    • This PBS member station is a major contributor to national media as the source for Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, National Geographic Explorer, and Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

• UHF:
  • WINP-TV 16 (Ion)
  • WPCW 19 (CW)
  • WPMY 22 (MyNetworkTV)
  • WPCB 40 (Cornerstone)
  • WPGH 53 (FOX)
  • WBGN 59 (Bruno-Goodworth Network)

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. WDDZ 1250 AM serves as the Pittsburgh affiliate for Radio Disney. 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.

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

Other definitions of the "Pittsburgh region" include the Pittsburgh Metro Area, and the Pittsburgh "Tri-State Region."

The Pittsburgh DMA includes the following counties:

Pennsylvania counties:

• Allegheny
• Armstrong
• Beaver
• Butler
• Clarion
• Fayette
• Greene
• Indiana
• Lawrence
• Venango
• Washington
• Westmoreland

West Virginia counties:

• Monongalia
• Preston

Maryland counties:

• Garrett