Mass media in Miami, Florida, United States, includes newspapers, magazines, Internet-based web sites, radio, television, and cinema. Florida produces some of its own media, while some comes from outside the state for Floridian consumption.

Print

The Miami Metropolis newspaper began publication in May 1896, overseen initially by W.S. Graham and Wesley M. Featherby, and later by B.B. Tatum. In 1934, it became the Miami Daily News. The Herald newspaper began in 1899, followed by the Central News and Miami Weekly in 1920. Tropic Magazine began in 1914.

The first Miami Book Fair was held in 1984.

Radio

The earliest radio stations in Miami were WQAM (est. 1923) and WIOD (est. 1926).

AM

FM

(*) — indicates a non-commercial radio station. ([RDS]) — indicates a supported by the Radio Data System.

Shortwave

Defunct

  • WFAB—Miami (1962–1977)
  • WFAW—Miami (1922–1923)
  • WMJX—Miami (1948–1981)

TV

The Miami–Fort Lauderdale region is currently ranked by Nielsen Media Research as the 16th-largest television market in the United States. Affiliations listed below are the primary subchannel of each respective station (displayed as x.1 via PSIP). Additional networks/diginets are also available on many of the following stations' secondary subchannels (x.2 and up).

Full-power

Low-power

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

Streaming

Cable

Defunct

See also

Notes

Bibliography

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  • . American Newspaper Annual & Directory. Philadelphia: N. W. Ayer & Son. 1922. p. 156. hdl:.
  • Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), , Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, pp. 219–220, OCLC – via Internet Archive
  • Federal Writers' Project (1941). . Planning Your Vacation in Florida: Miami and Dade County. American Guide Series. Northport, NY: Bacon, Percy & Daggett. pp. 91–96. ISBN 9780404579074. {{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
  • Nixon Smiley. Knights of the Fourth Estate: The Story of the Miami Herald. E.A. Seemann Publishing, 1974.
  • Roy M. Fisher. The Trial of the First Amendment: Miami Herald vs. Tornillo. Freedom of Information Center, 1975.
  • Paul G. Ashdown (1980). "WTVJ's Miami Crime War: A Television Crusade". Florida Historical Quarterly. 58 (4): 427–437. JSTOR .
  • Nixon Smiley. The Miami Herald Front Pages, 1903–1983. H.N. Abrams, 1983.
  • John Rothchild (1984). "Cuban Connection and the Gringo Press". Columbia Journalism Review. 23.
  • Edna Buchanan. The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat. Random House, 1987.
  • , New York Times, July 24, 1989
  • Gonzalo R. Soruco (1996). "Media in Miami". . University Press of Florida. pp. 34–53. ISBN 978-0-8130-1379-4.
  • Doug Walker (1999), "Media's Role in Immigrant Adaptation: How First-year Haitians in Miami Use the Media", Journalism & Communication Monographs, vol. 1, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
  • Martin Merzer, ed. The Miami Herald Report: Democracy Held Hostage. St. Martin's Press, 2001.
  • John Sinclair (2003). "Hollywood of Latin America: Miami as Regional Center in Television Trade". Television & New Media. 4. doi:. S2CID .
  • Juliet Gill Pinto (2004). "Miami". In Christopher H. Sterling (ed.). . New York: Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 896–898. ISBN 978-1-135-45648-1.
  • Gregory W. Bush (2005). (PDF). Tequesta. 65. Historical Association of Southern Florida. ISSN – via Florida International University.
  • Aurora Wallace. Newspapers and the Making of Modern America: A History. Greenwood Press, 2005. (Chapter 5: Florida in Chains: The Miami Herald and the Tampa Tribune)
  • Gonzalo Soruco; Juliet Pinto (2010). "Mass Media Use Among South Florida Hispanics: An Intercultural Typology". Florida Communication Journal. 38. Florida Communication Association. ISSN .

External links

Images

  • Miami Metropolis newspaper, 1896