Media in Youngstown, Ohio

The following is a list of media in Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley in Ohio, United States.

Print

The Vindicator is the sole daily newspaper in the city, currently published as a zoned edition of Warren's Tribune Chronicle in broadsheet. It formerly competed with the Warren-based paper, and the Lisbon-based Morning Journal, although they primarily covered their respective counties, with limited coverage of Mahoning County and Youngstown, until in June 2019 it was announced that The Vindicator would cease publication by mid-August of the same year.[1] Although this newspaper carries the name of the old Vindicator,[2] its scope is comparatively limited, with the majority of previous Vindicator journalists not being carried over to the new edition.[3]

Other newspapers that print in Youngstown include bi-monthly The Business Journal, The Metro Monthly, and the bi-weekly The Jambar, published by the students of Youngstown State University on Tuesdays and Thursdays while classes are in session.

TV

WKBN-TV studio

With 273,480 television households, the Youngstown market is the nation's 106th largest, according to Nielsen Media Research.[4]

The market is served is served by four full power television stations.[5] including WFMJ-TV (channel 21, NBC, with The CW channel 21.2 under the WBCB call letters), WKBN-TV (channel 27, CBS), WYTV (channel 33, ABC, with MNTV on 33.2), and WNEO channel 45 (PBS).

Low power station WYFX-LD channel 62 serves as Youngstown's Fox affiliate, and is simulcast on WKBN 27.2.

Radio

AM

FM

References

  1. ^ Mitchell, J. Breen (June 28, 2019). "Vindicator announces it will stop production". WFMJ-TV. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  2. ^ "Tribune Chronicle acquires rights to Vindicator name | News, Sports, Jobs - Tribune Chronicle". Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  3. ^ "So Youngstown will have a daily named The Vindicator after all. But it's a brand surviving, not a newspaper". Nieman Lab. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  4. ^ "Sampling the Population". Nielsen Media Research. September 23, 2006. Archived from the original on April 25, 2007. Retrieved November 20, 2007.
  5. ^ "Ohio TV Information". Radio Station World. Retrieved November 20, 2007.
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