The Fisher Building, a National Historic site in the City's New Center area, is home to the Fisher Theatre, with an antenna that transmits WJR’s signal to its transmitter, along with the studios for WJR, WDVD and WUFL.

As the world's traditional automotive center, Detroit, Michigan, is an important source for business news. The Detroit media are active in the community through such efforts as the Detroit Free Press high school journalism program and the Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund of Detroit. Wayne State University offers a widely respected journalism program.

Print

The daily newspapers serving Detroit are the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, both broadsheet publications that are published together under a joint operating agreement. Both the Free Press and the News are owned by the USA Today Co. Other publications include weekly, monthly, and quarterly alternative media publications.

Daily

Weekly

Monthly

TBD Magazine The HUB Detroit

Bi-monthly

  • Ambassador

Quarterly

  • INSPIREbride

Periodical

Defunct

Radio

Metro Detroit is currently the 12th largest radio market in the United States, as ranked by Nielsen Media Research; this ranking does not take into account Canadian audiences.

(*) - indicates a non-commercial station.

AM

FM

LPFM

Canadian AM

Canadian FM

Notes

TV

WJBK studios in Southfield, Michigan
WPXD-TV offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Wintergarden was turned into a makeshift studio for ESPN during their Super Bowl XL coverage.

The Detroit television market is the 14th largest in the United States, and it has additional viewers in Ontario, Canada (Windsor and its surrounding area on broadcast and cable). Detroit is home to owned-and-operated stations of CBS, Fox, and Daystar and two station duopolies owned by Paramount Skydance Corporation and the E.W. Scripps Company.

Full-power

Low-power

(*) - indicates channel is a network owned-and-operated station.

Cable

Canadian viewership

Most of Metro Detroit receives stations from adjacent Windsor, Ontario, most notably, CBC Television owned-and-operated station CBET-DT. Conversely, multiple television stations in Detroit enjoy Canadian viewership and consider the market as part of their primary audience.

Internet

Media corporations

See also

Bibliography

  • Silas Farmer (1890). . History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan: a Chronological Cyclopedia (3rd ed.). Detroit. hdl: – via HathiTrust.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

External links

  • — WBGU-TV documentary about the Goodfellows and Old Newsboys Goodfellow Fund
  • , Research Guides, Detroit: Wayne State University Libraries