Media in San Diego
San Diego Union-Tribune
Building, 2018This is a list of media outlets based in the city of San Diego. People in San Diego are also able to receive media from Tijuana, Mexico.
Newspapers
- The San Diego Union-Tribune is the city's primary newspaper, published daily.[1] The Union-Tribune was formed in 1992 through a merger of the San Diego Union (established 1868) and the San Diego Evening Tribune (established 1881).[2] The newspapers hald been under common ownership since 1901.[3] The Evening-Tribune was the evening paper, while the Union was the morning paper; the Union-Tribune is a morning paper.[3] As of 2015, the Union-Tribune had won four Pulitzer Prizes and was the oldest company in continuous operation in San Diego.[4] In 2015, Tribune Publishing, which operates the Los Angeles Times and other major U.S. daily newspapers, purchased the newspaper in an $85 million deal.[4] The purchase ended 146 years of private local ownership for the paper.[4]
Other papers and news outlets published in the city include:
- La Prensa San Diego[5]
- San Diego Daily Transcript
- San Diego City Beat
- The alternative weekly in the city. Founded in 1972, the paper was headquartered in Little Italy before moving to Golden Hill in 2012.[6]
- San Diego Business Journal
- The Southern Cross, the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego
Neighborhood newspapers include:
- Beach & Bay Press (Pacific Beach, Mission Beach and Mission Bay), published every other week[7]
- Carmel Valley News[8]
- The Clairemont Times[9]
- T he Coronado Times Newspaper
- La Jolla Light[10]
- La Jolla Village News, published every other week[11]
- Mission Times Courier
- Peninsula Beacon (Ocean Beach and Point Loma), published every other week[12]
- Presidio Sentinel[13]
- Rancho Bernardo News Journal[14]
- San Diego Downtown News, published monthly[15]
- San Diego Uptown News (Bankers Hill, Balboa Park, Golden Hill, Hillcrest, Kensington, Mission Hills, Normal Heights, North Park, Old Town, South Park, Talmadge, University Heights), published monthly[16]
Magazines
Magazines published in San Diego include:
- Edible San Diego[17]
- Giving Back Magazine[18]
- Ranch & Coast[19]
- San Diego Family[20]
- San Diego Magazine
- San Diego Troubadour[21]
Online
Online-only media in San Diego include:
- Fresh Brewed Tech, a local tech news website[22]
- Patch, a national network of local news sites, operates in San Diego
- San Diego Story, an arts review website[23]
- The Times of San Diego is a web-based news outlet founded in 2014[24][25] that features local news daily for the city and surrounding area.[26][27] It has earned acclaim as a small business with a booming readership.[28][29] Currently the site reaches over 1 million unique users every month, according to its published reports. The audience is young, with readers aged 18 to 44 constituting the largest segment. Nearly 60 percent of reading sessions are from Southern California. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020, the site reported 1.53 million unique users.[30] The Times of San Diego differs from other recent local-media startups in providing full daily coverage of news in a large metro area, rather than infrequent in-depth articles. It differs in this regard from Voice of San Diego, a 15-year-old startup, and has passed that website in audience size. The Times of San Diego's contributing editors have been featured on local radio programs and have led training sessions for local journalists.[31][32][33] The Times of San Diego has been named "best news site" four years in row by the San Diego Press Club, and the site's editors took home 23 other awards in 2019.[34][35] The site received a grant from Google in June 2020 to expand coverage of the local impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.[36]
- InsideClimate News, The Lens, and New Jersey Spotlight.[43][44][45] It has won a variety of local journalism awards from the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (for reports exposing corruption at San Diego Unified School District)[46] and from the San Diego Press Club.[47][48]
- inewsource, a nonprofit newsroom[49]
- Vanguard Culture, a nonprofit arts and culture website[50]
- Water News Network, a specialized newsroom operated by the San Diego County Water Authority.[51]
Radio
San Diego is a principal city of the San Diego
Arbitron ranked the San Diego market 17th in the United States. The market only covers San Diego County.[52]
The following is a list of
radio stations
which broadcast from and/or are licensed to San Diego:
AM
| Frequency | Callsign[53]
|
Format[54] | City of License
|
Notes | Ownership | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 540 | XESURF |
Spanish Christian |
Tijuana, Baja California | "Radio Zion" | - | |
| 600 | KOGO | News/Talk |
San Diego, California | Primary emergency-alert station | iHeartMedia | |
| 620 | XESS |
Spanish Sports |
Puerto Nuevo, Baja California | Silent | - | |
| 690 | XEWW | Spanish News/Talk | Tijuana, Baja California | "La Gigante" | Primer Sistema de Noticias | |
| 760 | KGB | Sports/Talk |
San Diego , California |
"San Diego Sports" | iHeartMedia | |
| 800 | XESPN |
Adult Hits |
Tijuana, Baja California |
"Norte 800" | Esquina 32 Radio | |
| 860 | XEMO |
Adult Hits |
Tijuana, Baja California |
"La Poderosa" | Grupo Uniradio | |
| 910 | KECR | Christian Talk |
El Cajon, California | "Family Radio" | Family Stations
| |
| 950 | XEKAM |
Spanish News/Talk | Tijuana, Baja California |
"Radio Formula" | Grupo Formula | |
| 1000 | KCEO | Catholic |
Vista, California | - | IHR | |
| 1040 | KURS | Spanish Catholic | San Diego, California | "ESNE Radio" | ||
| 1090 | XEPRS |
Spanish Christian |
Tijuana, Baja California |
"Radio La Voz" | ||
| 1130 | KSDO | Spanish Christian |
San Diego , California |
- | - | |
| 1170 | KCBQ | News/Talk |
San Diego , California |
- | Salem Communications
| |
| 1210 | KPRZ | Christian Talk |
San Marcos, California | "K-Praise" | Salem Communications
| |
| 1240 | KNSN | Christian Talk |
San Diego, California | "K-BRITE" | Crawford Broadcasting | |
| 1270 | XEAZ-AM | AC |
Tijuana, Baja California | "La Romantica" | Primer Sistema de Noticias | |
| 1310 | XEC-AM | Spanish News/Talk |
Tijuana, Baja California | "Radio Enciso" | Primer Sistema de Noticias | |
| 1360 | KLSD | Progressive Talk | San Diego, California | "The Patriot" | iHeartMedia | |
| 1420 | XEXX | Regional Mexican | Tijuana, Baja California |
"Radio Ranchito" | Radio Cadena Enciso | |
| 1450 | KFSD | - | Escondido, California | - | - | |
| 1470 | XEHC | Adult Hits |
Tijuana, Baja California |
"Radio Bahía" | Radio Cadena Enciso | |
| 1550 | XEBG |
Estereo Baja | Tijuana, Baja California | |||
| 1630 | XEUT | Variety | Tijuana, Baja California |
- | ||
| 1700 | XEPE |
Sports |
Tijuana, Baja California | "TUDN Radio" | Primer Sistema de Noticias |
FM
| Frequency, MHz | Subchannel type | Callsign[55] /Subchannel name
|
Format[54] | City of License
|
Notes | Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88.3 | Analog | KSDS | Jazz | San Diego, California | - | San Diego City College |
| 88.5 | Analog | XHKT-FM | News/talk/Spanish Regional Mexican | Tecate, Baja California
|
La Super KT | California Medios |
| 88.7 | Analog | XHITT |
Freeform |
Tijuana, Baja California | Radio Technological | - |
| 89.5 | Analog/HD1 | KPBS-FM | Public radio
|
San Diego, California | NPR | SDSU |
| HD2 | Classical San Diego Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine | Classical music | Classical 24 | |||
| HD3 | Groove Salad | chillout
|
SomaFM | |||
| 90.3 | Analog | XHITZ |
Contemporary hit radio | Tijuana, Baja California |
Z90 | Local Media San Diego |
| 90.7 | Analog | XHTIM |
Regional Mexican | Tijuana, Baja California |
La Mejor | MVS Communications |
| 91.1 | Analog | XETRA | Classic alternative | Tijuana, Baja California |
91X | Local Media San Diego |
| 91.7 | Analog | XHGLX |
Spanish Contemporary |
Tijuana, Baja California |
Ponte EXA-FM | MVS Communications |
| 92.1 | Analog | KARJ | Worship music |
Escondido, California | Air1 | Educational Media Foundation |
| 92.5 | Analog | XHRM |
Rhythmic Adult Contemporary |
Tijuana, Baja California |
Magic 92.5 | Local Media San Diego |
| 93.3 | Analog/HD1 | KHTS | Rhythmic Contemporary
|
El Cajon, California | Channel 93.3 | iHeartMedia |
| HD2 | Pride Radio | Dance | - | |||
| 94.1 | Analog/HD1 | KMYI | Hot adult contemporary
|
San Diego, California | Star 94.1 | iHeartMedia |
| HD2 | 600 KOGO | News/talk
|
KOGO simulcast | |||
| 94.5 | Analog | XHA | Regional Mexican | Tijuana, Baja California |
La Invasora | Grupo Uniradio |
| 94.9 | Analog/HD1 | KBZT | Alternative rock | San Diego, California | ALT 94/9 | Audacy, Inc. |
| HD3 | Glow | Dance | ||||
| 95.3 | Analog | XHHIT | Adult Hits |
Tecate, Baja California |
La Lupe | Multimedios Radio |
| 95.7 | Analog | KSSX | Urban Contemporary |
Carlsbad, California | Jam'n 95.7 | iHeartMedia |
| 96.1 | Analog | KYDO | Worship music |
Campo, California | Air 1 |
EMF |
| 96.5 | Analog/HD1 | KYXY | Adult contemporary
|
San Diego, California | KyXy | Audacy, Inc. |
| 97.3 | Analog/HD1 | KWFN | Sports | San Diego, California | 97.3 The Fan | Audacy, Inc. |
| HD3 | The Bet | Sports gambling
| ||||
| 98.1 | Analog/HD1 | KXSN | Classic hits | San Diego, California | Sunny 98.1 | Audacy, Inc. |
| HD3 | Channel Q | |||||
| 98.9 | Analog | XHMORE |
Regional Mexican | Tijuana, Baja California | La Calurosa | Esquina 32 Radio |
| 99.3 | Analog | XHOCL |
Spanish Adult Contemporary |
Tijuana, Baja California | FM Globo | MVS Radio |
| 99.7 | Analog | XHTY |
Regional Mexican | Tijuana, Baja California | La Invasora | Grupo Uniradio |
| 100.1 | Analog | KKLJ | Spanish Christian | Julian, California | Radio Nueva Vida | EMF |
| 100.7 | Analog | KFBG | Regional Mexican | San Diego, California | Frontera 100.7 | Lotus Communications |
| 101.5 | Analog/HD1 | KGB-FM | Classic rock | San Diego, California | - | iHeartMedia |
| HD2 | - | Sports | KGB simulcast | |||
| 102.1 | Analog | KLVJ | Contemporary Christian |
Encinitas, California | K-Love | EMF |
| 102.5 | Analog | XHUAN |
Electronic Music |
Tijuana, Baja California |
Fusion FM | IMER |
| 102.9 | Analog | KLQV | Spanish Adult Contemporary |
San Diego, California | Amor 102.9 | Univision Radio
|
| 103.7 | Analog | KSON | Country music | San Diego, California | KSON 103.7 | Audacy, Inc. |
| 104.5 | Analog | XHLTN |
Spanish Contemporary |
Tijuana, Baja California | Radio Latina | Grupo Imagen |
| 104.9 | Analog | XHLNC |
Regional Mexican | Tecate, Baja California | La Numero Uno | - |
| 105.3 | Analog/HD1 | KIOZ | Mainstream rock | San Diego, California | Rock 105.3 | iHeartMedia |
| 105.7 | Analog | XHPRS | Contemporary |
Tecate, Baja California | Suave | Primer Sistema de Noticias |
| 106.5 | Analog | KLNV | Regional Mexican | San Diego, California | Que Buena | Univision Radio
|
| 107.3 | Analog | XHFG |
Spanish Contemporary |
Tijuana, Baja California | Pulsar FM | Grupo Uniradio |
| 107.7 | Analog | XHRST |
Adult Hits |
Tijuana, Baja California | El Sol | MLC Media |
Television
The San Diego television market only includes San Diego County. The city is the headquarters of the privately held Herring Networks, which owns the AWE Network and One America News Network cable channels.
The following is a list of
licensed
to San Diego.
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