Media in San Diego

San Diego is one of the major cities in California. The following 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.

The San Diego Union-Tribune Building, 2018

Print

Newspapers and web publications

• 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 had 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:

• North County Times (now defunct) — formerly operated by Lee Enterprises, this publication began in 1995 with the merger of the North County Blade-Citizen of Oceanside and the Times Advocate of Escondido, which traced their origin to 1892 and 1886, respectively.[5] The North County Times subsequently acquired The Californian in Temecula, and in 1997 began to publish it as the Daily Californian, an edition of the Times.[5] In 2012, the North County Times (then with a circulation of just under 75,000) was sold by Lee Enterprises to the Union-Tribune, then under the ownership of Doug Manchester.[5]
• San Diego City Beat
• San Diego Magazine
• The San Diego Reader is the largest 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 Times of San Diego is a Web-based news outlet founded in 2014[7][8] that features local news daily for the city and surrounding area.[9][10] It has earn acclaim as a small business with a booming readership.[11][12] Currently the site reaches between 150,000 and 200,000 unique users every month, according to its published reports. The audience is young, with readers aged 25 to 44 constituting the largest segment. Nearly 60 percent of reading sessions are from Southern California. Quantcast reported that the site had 189,900 monthly unique users for the period September 18 - October 17, 2016.[13] 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 decade-old startup, and has passed that website in audience size. Times of San Diego's contributing editors have been featured on local radio programs and have led training sessions for local journalists.[14][15][16] The site is featured on Michele's List, a widely followed directory of local media startups produced in collaboration with the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism.[17] Times of San Diego contributing editors won four awards from the San Diego Press Club in October 2015 and 13 awards from the San Diego Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in July 2015.[18][19]
• Voice of San Diego (Voiceofsandiego.org) is a non-profit news outlet in San Diego that reports on the city.[20] A Web-only local outlet, Voice of San Diego was founded in 2005,[21] it was one of a number of such publications that emerged around that time in responsive to cutbacks in traditional local print newspapers.[22][23][24] The site is known for both its news coverage and local investigative reporting.[21][24][25] The website is partially funded by grants, but is financed primarily on a paid membership model. In 2016, Voice of San Diego launched the News Revenue Hub, a pilot project aimed at helping other nonprofit news organizations adopt its model. Members of the pilot include Honolulu Civil Beat, InsideClimate News, The Lens, and New Jersey Spotlight.[26][27][28] 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 the San Diego Unified School District)[29] and from the San Diego Press Club.[30][31]

Radio

San Diego is a principal city of the San Diego radio market. In its Fall 2013 ranking of radio markets by population, Arbitron ranked the San Diego market 17th in the United States. The market only covers San Diego County.[32]

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

AM

Frequency	Callsign[33]	Format[34]	City of License	Notes	Ownership
540	XESURF	Spanish Christian	Tijuana, Baja California	"Radio Zion"	-
600	KOGO	News/Talk	San Diego, California	-	iHeartMedia
620	XESS	Spanish Sports	Puerto Nuevo, Baja California	ESPN Deportes	-
690	XEWW	Spanish News/Talk	Tijuana, Baja California	"W Radio"	Televisa Radio
760	KGB	News/Talk	San Diego, California	-	iHeartMedia
800	XESPN	Spanish Talk	Tijuana, Baja California	-	-
860	XEMO	Tropical	Tijuana, Baja California	"La Ponderosa"	-
910	KECR	Christian Talk	El Cajon, California	"Family Radio"	Family Stations
950	XEKAM	Spanish News/Talk	Tijuana, Baja California	"Radio Formula"	-
1000	KCEO	Catholic	Vista, California	-	IHR
1030	XESDD	Spanish Adult Hits	Puerto Nuevo, Baja California	"Radio Romantica"	-
1040	KURS	Spanish Catholic	San Diego, California	"ESNE Radio"	-
1090	XEPRS	Spanish hits	Tijuana, Baja California	-	-
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	Regional Mexican	Tijuana, Baja California	-	-
1310	XEC	Spanish News/Talk	Tijuana, Baja California	-	-
1360	KLSD	Sports	San Diego, California	FOX Sports Radio	iHeartMedia
1390	XEKT	Spanish News/Talk	Tecate, Baja California	-	-
1420	XEXX	Spanish/Talk	Tijuana, Baja California	-	-
1450	KFSD	Business News	Escondido, California	-	-
1470	XERCN	Spanish News/Talk	Tijuana, Baja California	-	-
1550	XEBG	Spanish News/Talk	Tijuana, Baja California	-	-
1630	XEUT	Variety	Tijuana, Baja California	"Radio UABC"	-
1700	XEPE	Spanish News	Tijuana, Baja California	-

FM

Frequency, MHz	Subchannel type	Callsign[35]/Subchannel name	Format[34]	City of License	Notes	Ownership
88.3	Analog	KSDS	Jazz	San Diego, California	-	San Diego City College
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	Classical music		Classical 24
	HD3	Groove Salad	Downtempo/chillout		SomaFM
90.3	Analog	XHITZ	Contemporary hit radio	Tijuana, Baja California	"Z90"	-
90.7	Analog	XHTIM	Regional Mexican	Tijuana, Baja California	La Mejor	MVS Communications
91.1	Analog	XETRA	Alternative Rock	Tijuana, Baja California	"91X"	-
91.7	Analog	XHGLX	Spanish Contemporary	Tijuana, Baja California	Pointe EXA-FM	MVS Communications
92.1	Analog	KARJ	Christian Contemporary Hit Radio	Escondido, California	Air1	Educational Media Foundation
92.5	Analog	XHRM	Rhythmic Adult Contemporary	Tijuana, Baja California	Magic	-
93.3	Analog/HD1	KHTS	Rhythmic Contemporary	El Cajon	"San Diego's #1 Hit Music Station"	iHeartMedia
	HD2	Pride Radio	Dance		-
94.1	Analog/HD1	KMYI	Hot Adult Contemporary	San Diego, California	"Star 94.1 San Diego's Best Variety"	iHeartMedia
	HD2	600 KOGO	News/talk		KOGO simulcast
	HD3	The Breeze	Soft adult contemporary		-
94.5	Analog	XHA	Regional Mexican	Tijuana, Baja California	La Invasora	Groupo Uni Radio
94.9	Analog/HD1	KBZT	Alternative Rock	San Diego, California	FM 94/9	Entercom
	HD2	Bob Radio	Reggae
	HD3	Glow	Dance
95.3	Analog	XHHIT	Regional Mexican	Tecate, Baja California	"La Caliente"	-
95.7	Analog	KSSX	Urban Contemporary	Carlsbad, California	Jam'n 95.7	iHeartMedia
96.1	Analog	KYDO	Contemporary Christian	Campo, California	Air 1	EMF
96.5	Analog/HD1	KYXY	Adult contemporary	San Diego, California	KyXy	Entercom
	HD2	FlashBack ALT	Classic alternative
97.3	Analog/HD1	KWFN	Sports	San Diego, California	97.3 The Fan	Entercom
	HD2	The Angry Playlist	Active rock
	HD3	"Funny FM"	Comedy
98.1	Analog/HD1	KXSN	Classic Hits	San Diego, California	Sunny	Entercom
	HD2	Smooth Jazz KIFM	Smooth jazz
	HD3	Channel Q	LGBTQ Talk/EDM
98.9	Analog	XHMORE	Spanish Rock	Tijuana, Baja California	MORE-FM	-
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	Groupo Uni Radio
100.1	Analog	KKLJ	Spanish Christian	Julian, California	Radio Nueva Vida	EMF
100.7	Analog	KFBG	Adult hits	San Diego, California	100.7 Big FM	iHeartMedia
101.5	Analog	KGB-FM	Classic Rock	San Diego, California	-	iHeartMedia
102.1	Analog	KLVJ	Contemporary Christian	Encinitas, California	K-Love	EMF
102.5	Analog	XHUAN	Electronic Music	Tijuana, Baja California	Fusion FM	-
102.9	Analog	KLQV	Spanish Adult Contemporary	San Diego, California	"Amor"	Univision Radio
103.7	Analog	KSON	Country music	San Diego, California	New Country 103.7	Entercom
104.5	Analog	XHLTN	Spanish Contemporary	Tijuana, Baja California	"Radio Latina"	-
104.9	Analog	XHLNC	Spanish Adult hits	Tecate, Baja California	"Tono 104.9"	-
105.3	Analog/HD1	KIOZ	Mainstream rock	San Diego, California	"Rock 105-3"	iHeartMedia
	HD2	ALT 105.3 HD2	Modern rock		-
105.7	Analog	XHPRS	Classic alternative	Tecate, Baja California		-
106.5	Analog	KLNV	Regional Mexican	San Diego, California	"Que Buena"	Univision Radio
107.3	Analog	XHFG	Spanish Contemporary	Tijuana, Baja California	"Pulsar FM"	Groupo Uni Radio
107.7	Analog	XHRST	Spanish Contemporary	Tijuana, Baja California	Los 40 Principales	-

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 television stations that broadcast from and/or are licensed to San Diego.

Display Channel	Network[36]	Callsign[37]	City of License	Notes
3.1	Imagen Televisión	XHCTTI-TDT	Tijuana, Baja California	-
6.1	Canal 5	XETV-TDT	Tijuana, Baja California	-
8.1	CBS	KFMB-TV	San Diego, California	-
8.2	The CW/MyNetwork TV
8.3	Grit
10.1	ABC	KGTV	San Diego, California	-
10.2	MeTV
10.3	Laff
11.1	Canal Once	XHTJB-TDT	Tijuana, Baja California	-
12.1	Televisa	XEWT	Tijuana, Baja California	-
15.1	PBS	KPBS	San Diego, California
15.2	KPBS 2
15.3	Create
15.4	PBS Kids
17.1	Univision	KBNT-CD	San Diego, California
21.1	TV Azteca 7	XHTIT	Tijuana, Baja California	-
21.2	XHIMT
26.1	WORLD TV	KVSD	San Diego, California	-
27.1	TV Azteca 13	XHJK	Tijuana, Baja California	-
27.2	Proyecto 40
33.1	Azteca America	XHAS-TDT	Tijuana, Baja California	-
33.2	LATV
36.1	Unimas	KDTF-LD	San Diego, California	-
39.1	NBC	KNSD	San Diego, California	-
39.2	Cozi TV
48.1	Telemundo
45.1	Gala TV	XHBJ	Tijuana, Baja California	-
45.2	Multimedios Televisión
49.1	Milenio Televisión	XHDTV-TDT	Tecate, Baja California	-
51.1	Independent	KUSI	San Diego, California	-
57.1	Canal De las Estrellas	XHUAA	Tijuana, Baja California	-
57.2	XEW-TDT
69.1	Fox	KSWB	San Diego, California	-
69.2	This TV
69.3	Antenna TV

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