Media in the Tampa Bay Area

The Tampa Bay media market is Florida's second-largest metropolitan area with a variety of print, online and broadcast media outlets serving the region. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the population for the Tampa-St. Petersburg Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) at 2,733,761 as of July 1, 2008. The Tampa Bay media market also includes Citrus, Manatee, Sarasota and Polk counties.^[1] Polk County is also served by media from Orlando.

Newspapers

The two major daily newspapers serving the area are the Tampa Bay Times and The Tampa Tribune.

The Tampa Bay Times (known as the St. Petersburg Times from 1898 until January 2012) is the largest newspaper by circulation in the southeastern United States at over 400,000, which is over 50% more than Florida's next largest newspaper, the Orlando Sentinel.^[2] It distributes a free Monday-through-Friday tabloid called tbt* in most areas of Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties.

The Tampa Tribune was first published as a daily newspaper in 1895. Besides the main edition, "the Trib" publishes a portfolio of standalone weekly newspapers throughout the region, including the Plant City Courier & Tribune, Brandon News & Tribune, South Shore News & Tribune, Northeast News & Tribune, Carrollwood News & Tribune, South Tampa News & Tribune, Northwest News & Tribune, Central Tampa News & Tribune, The Suncoast News, and the Spanish language CENTRO Tampa.

The Tampa Bay area is also served by a variety of regional newspapers and weeklies. La Gaceta is a weekly trilingual (English, Spanish and Italian) newspaper published in Tampa's historic Ybor City since 1922.^[3] Two newspapers serve the local black community: the Florida Sentinel Bulletin (Tampa) and The Weekly Challenger (St. Petersburg). Creative Loafing Tampa (also known for a time as the Weekly Planet) is the area's primary alternative weekly. The Oracle serves the University of South Florida and its surrounding community. The Tampa Bay Business Journal is the region's business publication of record. The Osprey Observer is a weekly that serves East Hillsborough County with five separate publications, three of which carry the Osprey Observer moniker and a fourth, The Christian Voice that is distributed through local churches. Some lesser-known papers include Tampa Bay Newspapers TBNWeekly and the Tampa Bay Informer.

Several cities outside the Tampa-St. Petersburg core but within the Tampa Bay media market have smaller-circulation daily newspapers with overlapping coverage and distribution areas. They include The Bradenton Herald, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, The Ledger of Lakeland, The News-Chief of Winter Haven (published by The Ledger), the Citrus County Chronicle (based in Inverness), Hernando Today (based in Brooksville) and Highlands Today (based in Sebring). Both of the Today newspapers are published by The Tampa Tribune.

Television

WUSF-TV studios in Tampa

The Tampa Bay area is the nation's 11th-largest TV market and largest TV Market(DMA) in the state of Florida, according to Nielsen Media Research,^[4] with 1,822,550 TV households.

Fourteen television stations serve the region (network O&O's in bold):

WEDU (Channel 3, PBS)
WFLA (Channel 8, NBC)
WTSP (Channel 10, CBS)
WTVT (Channel 13, Fox)
WUSF (Channel 16, PBS)
WCLF (Channel 22, Trinity Broadcasting Network)
WFTS (Channel 28, ABC)
WMOR (Channel 32, independent)
WTTA (Channel 38, My Network TV)
WWSB (Channel 40, ABC, Sarasota)
WTOG (Channel 44, The CW)
WRMD (Channel 49, Telemundo)
WFTT (Channel 50, UniMás)
WVEA (Channel 62, Univision)

Local cable-only stations include Bay News 9 and Bright House Sports Network (operated by Bright House Networks) and SNN Local News 6 (operated by Comcast Cable, in partnership with the Sarasota Herald-Tribune).

Radio

The Tampa Bay area is the nation's 19th-largest radio market, according to Arbitron Research.^[5] More than 70 radio stations, split almost evenly between the AM and FM band. Most major programming formats are represented by the corporations of Clear Channel Communications the biggest owner of radio stations in the area, followed by Cox Media Group and CBS Radio. The area is also home to at least two non-profit radio stations, WMNF and WUSF. Christian stations include including The Joy FM and WBVM. In addition, many Orlando-area stations can be heard in the northern and eastern reaches of the metropolitan area.

These stations were rated by Arbitron in January 2014:

WXTB (98 Rock 97.9) Active Rock
WWRM (Magic 94.9) Adult Contemporary
WMTX (Mix 100.7) Adult Contemporary
WDAE All Sports
WHFS All Sports
WBRN-FM
WSUN (97X 97.1) Alternative
WXGL (The Eagle 107.3) Classic Hits
WRBQ-FM (Q105 104.7) Classic Hits
WMTX Classic Rock
WSMR Classical
WCIE Contemporary Christian
WBVM Contemporary Christian
WJIS Contemporary Christian
WFUS (US 103.5) Country
WQYK (WQYK 99.5) Country
WUSF News/Educational
WFLA News Talk Information
WHNZ News Talk Information
WFLZ (93.3 FLZ) Pop Contemporary Hit Radio
WPOI (HOT 101.5) Pop Contemporary Hit Radio
WKES Religious
WLLD (WILD 94.1) Rhythmic Contemporary Hit Radio
WDUV (The Dove 105.5) Soft Adult Contemporary
WYUU (Maxima 92.5) Spanish Hot Adult Contemporary
WHPT Talk/Personality
WBTP Urban Contemporary
WMNF (WMNF 88.5 FM) Community/Variety

References

Tampa Bay Area

Topics	Tampa Bay Climate History Media Sports Tampa International Airport Hillsborough County Public Schools Pinellas County Schools University of South Florida

Central cities	Tampa St. Petersburg Clearwater

Smaller communities	Pinellas Park Temple Terrace Brandon Zeyphrhills Plant City Largo Dunedin Tarpon Springs Lutz Sun City Center

Counties in MSA	Hernando Hillsborough Pasco Pinellas

See also: Florida

Television stations serving West Central Florida, including Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

English-language
stations

WEDU (3.1 PBS, 3.2 V-me, 3.3 World/FL Chan, 3.4 PBS+)
WFLA (8.1 NBC, 8.2 Me-TV)
WTSP (10.1 CBS, 10.2 ANT)
WTVT (13.1 Fox, 13.2 Movies!)
WPDS-LD (14.1-4 Edu.)
W15CM-D (15.1 unknown)
WUSF (16.1 PBS, 16.2 Kids, 16.3 Create, 16.4 Knowledge)
WSVT-LD (18.1 Daystar)
WARP-CD (20.1-20.4 infomercials)
WCLF (22.1 CTN, 22.3 CTN National, 22.4 LifeStyle)
WFTS (28.1 ABC, 28.2 Laff, 28.3 Grit)
WTAM-LD (30.1 unknown, 30.4 Infomercials)
W31CZ-D (31.1 TBN)
WMOR (32.1 Ind, 32.2 This TV)
W40CU-D (33.1 HSN)
WTTA (38.1 MNTV, 38.2 Cozi TV)
W43CE-D (43.1 SBN)
WTOG (44.1 CW, 44.2 Decades)
WVEA-LP 46 (HSN)
WZRA-CA (48.1 Ethnic/A1/NTV/CTV/DW)
WFTT-DT (50.2 Bounce TV, 50.3 GetTV)
WXPX (66.1 Ion, 66.2 Qubo, 66.3 Life, 66.4 Infomercials, 66.5 QVC, 66.6 HSN)

Spanish-language stations

WEDU (3.2 V-me)
WCLF (22.2 CTNi)
WXAX-CD 26 (AZA)
WTAM-LD (30.2 Mi Musica, 30.3 TV Reino)
WMOR (32.3 Estrella TV)
WSPF-CD (35.1 MundoMax, 35.2 ATeVe)
WRMD-CD (49.1 TMD)
WFTT-DT (50.1 UniMás)
WVEA (62.1 UNI, 62.2 LATV)

Sarasota

WSNN-LD (39.1 SNN, 39.2 Grit, 39.3 Laff)
WWSB (40.1 ABC)

Outlying areas

ATSC-M/H Mobile DTV stations
encrypted channels italicized

WEDU (3.1 PBS)
WFLA (8.1 NBC)
WTSP (10.1 CBS)
WTVT (13.1 Fox)
WXPX (66.82 Gran Cine, 66.85 NFL Net, 66.87 GOL TV, 66.88 NFL RedZone, 66.90 Starz, 66.96 AirBox)

Cable channels

Distant stations

Fort Myers/Naples	WINK 11 (CBS) WBBH 20 (NBC) WZVN 26 (ABC) WGCU 30 (PBS) WFTX 36 (Fox) WXCW 46 (CW)

Orlando	WKMG 6 (CBS) WFTV 9 (ABC) WOFL 35 (Fox) News 13

Gainesville	WUFT 5 (PBS) WOGX 51 (Fox)

Defunct

Florida broadcast television areas by city: Fort Myers; Gainesville; Jacksonville; Miami; Orlando; Pensacola; Panama City; Tallahassee; Tampa/St. Petersburg; West Palm Beach

Radio stations in the Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater, Florida market

By AM frequency	570 620 680 760 820 860 910 970 1010 1040 1110 1150 1250 1300 1340 1350 1380 1400 1450 1470 1500 1520 1550 1590 1620

By FM frequency	88.5 88.9 89.7 90.5 91.1 91.5 92.5 93.3 94.1 94.9 95.7 96.1 96.7 97.1 97.9 98.7 99.5 99.9 100.7 101.5 102.5 103.5 104.7 105.5 106.3 107.3

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.450 162.550

By callsign	KEC38 KHB32 WAMA WBTP WBRN-FM WBVM WCIE WDAE WDCF WDUV WFLA WFLZ WFUS WGES WGHR WGUL WHBO WHFS WHNZ WHPT WKES WLCC WLLD WMGG WMNF WMTX WPOI WPSO WQBN WQYK-FM WRBQ-FM WRXB WSUN-FM WTAN WTBN WTWD WTIS WTMP WTMP-FM WUSF WWBA WWJB WWMI WWRM WXGL WXJB WXTB WXYB WYFE WYUU WZHR WZPH-LP (Bulls Radio)

Defunct	WFTI-FM (91.7 FM)

Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 228 Sirius Channel 158 Florida radio markets Daytona Beach Fort Myers–Naples–Marco Island Ft. Pierce–Stuart–Vero Beach Ft. Walton Beach Gainesville–Ocala Jacksonville Lakeland-Winter Haven Melbourne–Titusville–Cocoa Miami–Ft. Lauderdale Orlando Panama City Pensacola Sarasota–Bradenton Tallahassee Tampa–St.Petersburg–Clearwater West Palm Beach–Boca Raton Other Florida radio regions Florida Keys Lake City Sebring See also List of radio stations in Florida

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