| The news media of Los Angeles services the West | | | | allocations but they are split between different cities. |
| Coast city's large population. The major daily | | | | For example, New York City has seven allocations, but |
| newspaper is The Los Angeles Times. The largest | | | | two of these are utilized in neighboring New Jersey. |
| Spanish-language paper is La Opinion. The city also | | | | Interestingly, along with Washington, DC, LA is one of |
| supports a wide variety of smaller regional | | | | only a very selective group of television markets that |
| newspapers, alternative weeklies and magazines, | | | | do not have a VHF allocation reserved for public |
| including the Los Angeles Daily News, LA Weekly, Los | | | | broadcasting. |
| Angeles CityBeat, Los Angeles Business Journal, Los | | | | The major network television affiliates include |
| Angeles Daily Journal,The Hollywood Reporter and | | | | KABC-TV 7 (ABC), KCBS 2 (CBS), KNBC 4 (NBC), |
| Variety magazine. | | | | KTTV 11 (FOX), KTLA 5, KCOP 13 and KPXN 30. |
| In addition to the listed English and Spanish papers, a | | | | PBS has a presence in the area with four stations: |
| number of local periodicals serve various immigrant | | | | KVCR 24, KCET 28, KOCE 50 and KLCS 58. World |
| communities in their native tongues, including Japanese, | | | | TV operates on two channels, KNET-LP 25 and |
| Korean, Persian and Russian. | | | | KSFV-LP 6. Spanish-language television networks are |
| Many cities nearby to Los Angeles have their own | | | | also represented, including KMEX 34 (Univision), KFTR |
| daily newspapers, some of which cover and are | | | | 46 (Telefutura), KVEA 52 (Telemundo), and KAZA 54 |
| available in some LA neighborhoods. Two examples of | | | | (Azteca America). |
| this are the Daily Breeze and The Long Beach | | | | Independent television stations operating in the area |
| Press-Telegram. | | | | include: KCAL 9 (owned by CBS); KSCI 18 |
| On the airwaves, the Los Angeles metro area has a | | | | (Asian-language programming); KWHY 22, KNLA-LP |
| cornucopia of local television stations, and is the | | | | 27 and KRCA 62 (Spanish-language); KSMV-LP 33 |
| second largest media market area in the U.S. LA is the | | | | and KJLA 57 (variety), KXLA 44 (classic |
| only city to have all seven VHF allocations assigned to | | | | programming) and KDOC 56 (local sports). |
| it. Some other markets have the same number of | | | | |