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According to nielsenmedia.com statistics for 2015-2016, the Richmond, Virginia market area is the 56th largest Designated Market Area in the United States, with 549,730 TV households. Richmond is served by a variety of communication media:


Video Media in Richmond, Virginia



Print media

Daily

The local daily newspaper in Richmond is the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Weekly

  • Brick (defunct alternative weekly; published September 2006 to July 2010)
  • Style Weekly (alternative weekly)
  • Chesterfield Observer

Monthly / bi-monthly / quarterly

  • Boomer Magazine (bi-monthly)
  • Chesterfield Living, West Ends Best, Hanover Lifestyle (bi-monthly)
  • Greater Richmond Grid Magazine (bi-monthly)
  • OurHealth Richmond Magazine (bi-monthly)
  • Richmond Magazine (monthly)
  • RVA Magazine[1] (quarterly)
  • Whurk (monthly)

News and newsmagazines

The Richmond Free Press[2] and the Richmond Voice [3] are weekly newspapers that cover the news from a predominantly African American perspective. The only Hispanic magazine in the state, La Voz Hispana de Virginia [4] provides significant cultural and news content in both English and Spanish. There are also two major publications from the Jewish community of Richmond, published in English; The Reflector is the semi-weekly newspaper of the Jewish Federation of Richmond and Virginia Jewish Life (formerly Virginia Jewish News) is an independent monthly magazine published by the Chabad community of Richmond, but highlighting stories of general Jewish interest in Virginia. City Edition was a civic-minded newspaper that listed municipal and council related events, issues, and results, which stopped publication in October 2007. [5]. Richmond.com is an online newsmagazine with a wide readership. Other local topical publications include Richmond Parents Magazine and V Magazine for Women. the voice of women in Richmond. [6] Richmond Guide [7] is a quarterly that is targeted toward visitors. The Virginia Defender [8] is a quarterly statewide community newspaper with a press run of 16,000 distributed through nearly 300 distribution sites in Richmond, plus 16 other Virginia cities and five counties.

Richmond's leading African American newspaper at the turn of the century was the Richmond Planet which ran from 1883-1996 and was edited by John Mitchel, Jr. from 1884 until his death in 1929.

Regional and county newspapers include the following:

  • The Amelia Bulletin Monitor for Amelia County, Virginia [9]
  • The Chesterfield Observer for Chesterfield County, Virginia [10]
  • The Goochland Courier for Goochland County, Virginia
  • The Goochland Gazette for Goochland County, Virginia [11]
  • The Henrico Citizen for Henrico County, Virginia [12]
  • The Herald Progress for Hanover County, Virginia [13]
  • The Hopewell News (defunct) for Hopewell, Virginia [14]
  • Petersburg Progress-Index for Petersburg, Virginia[15]
  • RVA Magazine [16]
  • Virginia Living [17] is a glossy magazine published bi-monthly that covers Virginia events.

Student

VCU, VUU, and University of Richmond have student-run newspapers, including VCU's Commonwealth Times, Ink, Amendment, Emanata, and Poictesme.


Maps Media in Richmond, Virginia



Television

Richmond is served by several television stations.

Broadcast

Richmond's over-the-air television stations:

* These low-power stations have construction permits to move to new digital channels in the near future.
** As of December 31, 2015, this station is indicated as Silent on the FCC's broadcast database.

Repack refers to the impending reallocation of channel assignments following FCC Auctions 1001/1002, which is designed to sell unused TV spectrum to wireless service operators. Richmond-area stations will begin testing in January 2020, and will have to move to their new channels by March 13, 2020. Low-power stations will be affected, but new channel assignments have not been released as of May 2017.

Primary station signals air on 2-3 channels per cable system (usually one in standard definition and 1-2 in high definition). Subchannels are cleared on cable systems through contractual agreements, and are generally in standard definition.

Cable

Comcast is the primary cable television provider for the Richmond area (Richmond city proper, Chesterfield, Henrico County) and the Tri-Cities (area includes Petersburg, Colonial Heights, Hopewell and the counties of Dinwiddie and Prince George). In the city and Henrico County, it is the successor to the franchise originally held by Continental Cablevision, then MediaOne, then AT&T Broadband, before Comcast acquired AT&T Broadband. In Chesterfield, it is the successor to the franchise originally held by Storer Cable. In the nearby Tri-Cities area, it is the successor to the franchise originally held by Sammons Communications, then Marcus Cable, then Tele-Media, then Adelphia, before Comcast acquired Adelphia.

Verizon now offers television through its fiber-optic system, FiOS TV, in Richmond City and Henrico and Chesterfield Counties, and is currently expanding its services farther into the outlying Richmond area.


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Radio

The metropolitan area is served by a variety of radio stations, serving a wide variety of musical and other interests.

AM

Several AM stations serve a variety of music, talk, and sports topics, including the following:

FM

On the FM dial, popular music stations include the following:


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Internet media

While electronic is a new category of media, several outlets compete for online readership. A number of neighborhood news sites have come online in 2007.

  • AllNightRVA.com
  • As Told Over Brunch
  • Carver & Jackson Ward News [18]
  • Church Hill People's News [19]
  • community.livejournal.com/rva LiveJournal
  • DowntownShortPump.com
  • Fan District Hub [20]
  • Hills and Heights [21]
  • Near West End News [22]
  • North Richmond News [23]
  • OurHealthRichmond.com [24]
  • Punchline Magazine comedy site, now defunct underground culture newspaper [25]
  • Richmond City Watch [26]
  • Richmond.com (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
  • richmond.craigslist.org Craigslist
  • richmond.indymedia.org indymedia
  • RichmondBizSense.com
  • RichmondGrid.com
  • www.richmondliberty.org
  • River City Rapids [27]
  • RVA Magazine (http://Rvamag.com)
  • RVANews.com [28]
  • RVAPlaylist.com [29]
  • South Richmond News [30]
  • Spyed (http://spyedrichmond.com)
  • TalkRVA.com [31]
  • Virginia Christmas News [32]
  • West of the Boulevard News [33]

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Media corporations

Commercial radio ownership in Richmond is dominated by three companies:

  • Entercom (WRVA-AM, WRVQ, WTVR-FM, WBTJ, WRXL, WRNL-AM)
  • SummitMedia LLC (WKLR, WMXB, WJSR, WKHK)
  • Urban One (WCDX, WKJS, WKJX, WPZZ, WTPS-AM)

Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corporation is the owner of several stations in Richmond (WCVE-TV, WCVE-FM, WCVW-TV), along with translators in Charlottesville, and another station in Northern Virginia, and is headquartered in Richmond.


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Communication schools

Richmond is home to the VCU School of Mass Communications, which was founded in 1978 and offers bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism, advertising and public relations. It is accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The school houses Capital News Service, VCU InSight, and the VCU Create-A-thon.


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See also

  • Virginia media
    • List of newspapers in Virginia
    • List of radio stations in Virginia
    • List of television stations in Virginia
    • Media of cities in Virginia: Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Roanoke, Virginia Beach

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External links

  • Richmond Media - a Richmond media company specializing in web design and broadband video
  • 2005 Mediaweek review of Richmond-Petersburg Media
  • www.nielsenmedia.com DMA rankings
  • "United States: Virginia: Richmond: News and Media". DMOZ. AOL.  (Directory ceased in 2017)

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