Media in Los Angeles

The media of Los Angeles serve a large population in the Los Angeles area. The major daily newspaper in the area is the Los Angeles Times. La Opinión is the city's major Spanish-language paper. There are also a wide variety of smaller regional newspapers, alternative weeklies and magazines, including the Los Angeles Daily News (which focuses coverage on the San Fernando Valley), Los Angeles Register, LA Weekly, Los Angeles magazine, Los Angeles Business Journal, Los Angeles Daily Journal (legal industry paper), The Hollywood Reporter and Variety (entertainment industry papers), and Los Angeles Downtown News. In addition to the English- and Spanish-language papers, numerous local periodicals serve immigrant communities in their native languages, including Korean, Persian, Russian and Japanese.

Many cities adjacent to Los Angeles also have their own daily newspapers whose coverage and availability overlaps into certain Los Angeles neighborhoods. Examples include the Daily Breeze (serving the South Bay), and The Long Beach Press-Telegram.

Los Angeles arts, culture and nightlife news is also covered by a number of local and national online guides like Time Out Los Angeles, Thrillist, Kristin's List, DailyCandy, LAist, and Flavorpill.

The Los Angeles metro area is served by a wide variety of local television stations, and is the second-largest designated market area in the U.S. with 5,431,140 homes (4.956% of the U.S.).

Los Angeles is the only city to have all 7 VHF allocations possible assigned to it. Other markets have 7 VHF but they are split among different cities. For instance, New York City has 7 VHF allocations but two of these are assigned to cities in New Jersey.

Los Angeles, along with Washington, DC, is one of the few TV markets that did not have a VHF allocation reserved for public broadcasting.

Daily newspapers

 * Asbarez (Armenian)
 * The Epoch Times (Chinese)
 * Hoy (Spanish)
 * Investor's Business Daily
 * The Korea Daily (Korean)
 * Korea Herald Business (Korean)
 * The Korea Times (Korean)
 * The Los Angeles Bulletin and Civic Center NEWSource
 * Los Angeles Daily Journal (legal daily)
 * Los Angeles Daily News
 * Los Angeles Times
 * Metropolitan News-Enterprise (legal daily)
 * MyNewsLA
 * La Opinión (Spanish)
 * Rafu Shimpo (Japanese)
 * World Journal (Chinese)

Weekly and monthly newspapers

 * Beverly Press (community weekly)
 * CaribPress (Caribbean monthly)
 * The Century City News (community bi-weekly)
 * Cultural News (English-language Japanese monthly)
 * Eastside Sun (community weekly)
 * India Journal (Indian weekly)
 * The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles (Jewish weekly)
 *  L.A. Watts Times (community weekly)
 * LA Weekly (alternative weekly)
 * Larchmont Chronicle (community weekly)
 * Los Angeles Asian Journal (Filipino biweekly)
 * Los Angeles Business Journal (business weekly)
 * Los Angeles Downtown News (community weekly)
 * Los Angeles Free Press (alternative weekly)
 * The Los Angeles Independent (community weekly)
 * Los Angeles Sentinel (African-American weekly)
 * Los Angeles Wave - Culver City edition (community weekly)
 * Culver City Star
 * The Westsider
 * Los Angeles Wave - Northeast edition (community weekly)
 * Belvedere Citizen
 * Eagle Rock Sentinel
 * East L.A. Tribune
 * Eastside Journal
 * Highland Park News Herald & Journal
 * Lincoln Heights Bulletin
 * Mount Washington Star Review
 * El Sereno Star
 * Los Angeles Wave - West edition (community weekly)
 * Angeles Mesa News
 * Central News Wave
 * Inglewood/Hawthorne Wave
 * Southside Journal
 * Southwest Topics Wave
 * Tribune News
 * Mexican American Sun (community weekly)
 * Northeast Sun (community weekly)
 * Pacific Citizen (Asian-American semi-monthly)
 * Palisadian-Post (community weekly)
 * Park Labrea News (community weekly)
 * The Tidings (Catholic weekly)
 * The Tolucan Times (community weekly)
 * Valley Vantage (community weekly)
 * Warner Center News (community weekly)
 * Wyvernwood Chronicle (community weekly)

Magazines

 * Angeleno
 * Bel-Air View
 * Brentwood Magazine
 * Brentwood News
 * Entertainment Today
 * The Hollywood Reporter
 * The Reader Magazine 
 * L.A. Record
 * Los Angeles
 * Los Angeles Confidential
 * Pacific Palisades 90272
 * Sense
 * Variety

Defunct

 * City News Los Angeles
 * Illustrated Daily News
 * LA Youth
 * Los Angeles CityBeat
 * Los Angeles Express
 * Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
 * Los Angeles Reader
 * Los Angeles Register
 * New Times LA
 * Tuesday's Child
 * Daily Variety

Television stations
Note: Bold letters indicate a network-owned station.

The following is a list of radio stations which broadcast from and/or are licensed to Los Angeles:

Internet radio

 * CANDY103 - www.candy103.com, (Contemporary Hit Radio), JMP
 * KDHR (www.kdhr.net) - online radio station from Cal State Dominguez Hills
 * Maxradio.fm (Hollywood)
 * rmconair.com (Roscoe's Media Center)
 * Z93.9 - www.z939.com, (Hot Country), JMP