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Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
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Greater Boston Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston (the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England) and its surrounding areas. The region forms the northern a ...
area. As the television media market titled as "Boston-(Manchester)" it stretches as far north as
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TV stations

The Boston television market includes all but the 4 westernmost counties and Bristol County, Massachusetts, Bristol County in Massachusetts and the 6 southern counties in New Hampshire, plus Windham County, Vermont, Network owned-and-operated stations are highlighted in bold.


Local cable channels

Local cable channels
Comcast is the main cable television provider, it also competes against RCN Corporation, RCN in select parts of the city. *New England Cable News *New England Sports Network *NBC Sports Boston *CatholicTV *Boston Neighborhood Network (public-access television cable TV)


Radio

The Boston radio market is the tenth largest in the country, encompassing over 4 million people in Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth and Suffolk counties.


AM radio


FM radio


Print


Newspapers


Daily

*''The Boston Globe'' *''Boston Herald, The Boston Herald'' *''Metro International, The Boston Metro'', 5 days a week, 49% owned by the ''Boston Globe''


Weekly

*''The Armenian Mirror-Spectator'' *''The Armenian Weekly'' *''Banker & Tradesman'', business weekly *''Bay State Banner'', African-American weekly *''Bay Windows'', LGBT weekly *''Boston Business Journal'' *''The Christian Science Monitor'', daily online, weekly print magazine *''Commercial Record'', business weekly *''DigBoston'' *''The Jewish Advocate'' *''Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly'' *''The Pilot (Massachusetts newspaper), The Pilot'', Catholic weekly *''La Semana'', Spanish weekly


Bi-weekly and monthly

*''Just Property'', focused on real estate *''Just Rentals'', focused on real estate *''The Rainbow Times'', the largest LGBTQ monthly newspaper in Boston, serving all of New England *''Sampan (newspaper), Sampan'', bilingual, Chinese and English *''Spare Change News''


Neighborhood papers

* ''Allston-Brighton TAB'' *''Boston Guardian'' (effective successor of defunct ''Boston Courant'') *''Boston Sun'' (formerly ''Back Bay Sun'') *''Beacon Hill Times'' *''Charlestown Patriot-Bridge'' *''Dorchester Reporter'' *''East Boston Sun Transcript'' *''Fenway News'' *''Hyde Park Tribune'' *''Jamaica Plain Gazette'' *''Mattapan Reporter'' *''Mission Hill Gazette'' *''South End News'' *''West Roxbury Transcript'' Inner suburbs: * ''Arlington Advocate'' * ''Belmont Citizen-Herald'' * ''Brookline TAB'' * ''Cambridge Chronicle & TAB'' * ''Cambridge Day'' * ''Newton TAB'' * ''Somerville Journal'' * ''Watertown TAB'' * "The Patriot Ledger" Outer suburbs: *''The Eagle-Tribune'' of North Andover *''MetroWest Daily News'' of Framingham *''The Sun (Lowell), The Lowell Sun'' of Lowell *"Winchester Star"


College newspapers

* ''The Berkeley Beacon'', Emerson College, weekly * ''The Daily Free Press'', Boston University, weekly, online daily * ''The Harvard Crimson'', Harvard University, daily * ''The Harvard Voice'', Harvard University, weekly * ''The Heights (newspaper), The Heights'', Boston College twice-weekly * ''The Hub'', Emmanuel College, online * ''The Huntington News'', Northeastern University, weekly * ''The Mass Media'', University of Massachusetts Boston, weekly * ''The Simmons Voice'', Simmons College, weekly * ''The Suffolk Journal'', Suffolk University, weekly * ''The Suffolk Voice'', Suffolk University, online daily * ''The Tech (newspaper), The Tech'', Massachusetts Institute of Technology, weekly * ''The Tufts Daily'', Tufts University, daily * ''The 1851 Chronicle'', Lasell University, monthly


Wire Services

*Associated Press Boston bureau *State House News Service, a local news wire covering Massachusetts state government


Others

*''Barstool Sports'' *''Big Red & Shiny'', online contemporary arts magazine with coverage and arts criticism for Greater Boston and New England *''Boston Art Review'', a print and online magazine committed to facilitating active discourse around contemporary art in Boston *''Boston Common Magazine'' *''The Boston Independent Media Center'', provides alternative views *''Boston Live Magazine'', live music and entertainment *''Boston Magazine'', a monthly lifestyles magazine *''Boston Review'', a national political and arts magazine * ''Boston Spirit (magazine), Boston Spirit Magazine'', full color, glossy luxury gay and lesbian life and style magazine, for Greater Boston and New England * ''CommonWealth'', online magazine and quarterly print publication about politics and policy in Massachusetts * ''Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Nieman Lab'', online publication covering media and journalism based at Harvard's Nieman Foundation * ''Open Media Boston'', progressive online metro news weekly serving the Boston area * ''NewBostonPost'', conservative news website * ''STAT'', an online publication covering health and life sciences, owned by The Boston Globe


See also

*Arts and culture in Boston * Massachusetts#Media, Massachusetts media ** Media of List of municipalities in Massachusetts, cities in Massachusetts: Media in Providence metropolitan area, Fall River, MA/Providence, RI, Springfield Massachusetts#Media, Springfield, Media in Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester


References


External links


FCC TV Channel GuideBoston Media ListEDGE Boston
- gay and lesbian online news and entertainment
Newspapers in Massachusetts
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