The media in the San Francisco Bay Area has historically focused on

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

but also includes two other major media centers, Oakland and San Jose. The

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, and other similar media organizations treat the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose Area as one entire

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. The region hosts to one of the oldest radio stations in the United States still in existence,

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(740 kHz), founded by engineer

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in 1909. As the home of

Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical areas San Mateo Coun ...

, the Bay Area is also a technologically advanced and innovative region, with many companies involved with Internet media or influential

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Print

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The first newspaper published by Americans in California was ''The Californian'', printed in

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in 1846 announcing the

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, written half in English and half Spanish. The press was moved to

and printing started up again on May 22, 1847 in competition with the weekly ''California Star'', beginning that January. The first newspaper published solely in English in San Francisco was ''The Star'' published by

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pioneer Sam Brannan before San Francisco was renamed from Yerba Buena in 1847. Both efforts suspended publication in the face of the California Gold Rush. By August, ''The Californian'' had resumed publication, but by November 1848, both papers were bought and merged, then renamed the ''Alta California''. The press that once printed ''The Californian'' was moved to the Sacramento area to be used on the ''Placer Times''. The press was again moved and began publishing the Motherlode's first paper, the ''Sonora Herald'', then taken to Columbia to print the ''Columbia Star''. Within a few years of the discovery of gold, mother lode towns all had multiple competing journals. Before 1860, California had 57 newspapers and periodicals serving an average readership of 290,000. James King of William began publishing the ''Daily Evening Bulletin'' in San Francisco in October, 1855 and built it into the highest circulation paper in the city. He criticized a city supervisor named James P. Casey, who, on the afternoon of the story about him, ran in the paper, shot and mortally wounded King. Casey was lynched by the early vigilante committee. The ''Morning Call'' was established and began publishing in December 1856, and later merged with the ''Bulletin'' to become the long-running ''Call-Bulletin''. The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' debuted in June, 1865 as the ''Dramatic Chronicle'', founded by Charles and M.H. de Young aged 19 and 17. In 1887, young

William Randolph Hearst William Randolph Hearst Sr. (; April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American businessman, newspaper publisher, and politician known for developing the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His flamboya ...

took over his father's ''Daily Examiner'', which became the flagship of his national chain. Fremont Older became editor of the ''San Francisco Bulletin'' in 1895 and took up the struggle against the powerful Southern Pacific Railroad and along with fellow Californian

Lincoln Steffens Lincoln Austin Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was an American investigative journalist and one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era in the early 20th century. He launched a series of articles in '' McClure's'', called " ...

, became a well-known muckraker and the first objective observer to accuse District Attorney

Charles Fickert Charles Marron Fickert (February 23, 1873 – October 19, 1937) was American lawyer, politician, and college football player and coach. He was the district attorney of San Francisco from 1909 until 1920, best known for prosecuting Thomas Mooney ...

of the framing of labor radical

Thomas Mooney Thomas Joseph Mooney (December 8, 1882 – March 6, 1942) was an American political activist and labor leader, who was convicted with Warren K. Billings of the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916. It quickly became apparent that ...

. The oldest African-American newspaper, still active in the 1930s, was the ''California Eagle''. It appeared first in Los Angeles in 1879. The first French journals, the ''Californien'' and the ''Gazette Republicane'' both began in 1850, and were followed by the ''Courrier du Pacifique'' in 1852. Both the first German and first Italian papers, the ''California Demokrat'' (1852) and the ''Voce del Popolo'' (1859) were founded in San Francisco and had long runs. Chinese in California have published many newspapers, the first being the ''Gold Hills News'' in 1854. Noted journalists, writers, cartoonists and publishers have passed through San Francisco's media world, including: * Herbert Asbury *

Gertrude Atherton Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American author. Paterson, Isabel, "Gertrude Atherton: A Personality" The Bookman'', New York, February 1924, (pgs. 632-636) Many of her novels are set in her home sta ...

Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – ) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran. His book '' The Devil's Dictionary'' was named as one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by ...

Winifred Bonfils Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils (October 14, 1863, Chilton, Wisconsin – May 25, 1936, San Francisco, California) was an American reporter and columnist, under the pen name Annie Laurie, a reference to her mother's favorite lullaby. She also wrote u ...

* John Bruce *

Bruce Brugmann Bruce B. Brugmann was editor and publisher of the ''San Francisco Bay Guardian,'' a weekly alternative newspaper published in San Francisco. He co-founded the newspaper with his wife, Jean Dibble, in 1966. Brugmann was born in Rock Rapids, Iowa. H ...

Gelett Burgess Frank Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 – September 18, 1951) was an American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclas ...

Herb Caen Herbert Eugene Caen (; April 3, 1916 February 1, 1997) was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes—"A continuous love le ...

* William Martin Camp * Phil Elwood * C.H. Garrigues *

Henry George Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. He inspired the eco ...

* Harold Gilliam * Rube Goldberg *

Bret Harte Bret Harte (; born Francis Brett Hart; August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a caree ...

* Warren Hinkle *

Art Hoppe Arthur Watterson Hoppe (April 23, 1925 – February 1, 2000) was a popular columnist for the '' San Francisco Chronicle'' for more than 40 years. He was known for satirical and allegorical columns that skewered the self-important. Many columns fe ...

Wallace Irwin Wallace Irwin (March 15, 1875 – February 14, 1959) was an American writer. Over the course of his long career, Irwin wrote humorous sketches, light verse, screenplays, short stories, novels, nautical lays, aphorisms, journalism, political sat ...

Will Irwin William Henry Irwin (September 14, 1873 – February 24, 1948) was an American author, writer and journalist who was associated with the muckrakers. Early life Irwin was born in 1873 in Oneida, New York. In his early childhood, the Irwin fa ...

* Harry Jupiter * James King of William *

Jack London John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to ...

Charles McCabe Charles McCabe (1915–1983) was a columnist for the '' San Francisco Chronicle'' from the mid-1950s until his death May 1, 1983 at the age of 68. He was born and raised in New York's " Hells Kitchen" and was educated by the Jesuits. His wri ...

Joaquin Miller Cincinnatus Heine Miller (; September 8, 1837 – February 17, 1913), better known by his pen name Joaquin Miller (), was an American poet, author, and frontiersman. He is nicknamed the "Poet of the Sierras" after the Sierra Nevada, about which h ...

* Prentice Mulford * Fremont Older *

Randy Shilts Randy Shilts (August 8, 1951February 17, 1994) was an American journalist and author. After studying journalism at the University of Oregon, Shilts began working as a reporter for both '' The Advocate'' and the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', as wel ...

Charles Warren Stoddard Charles Warren Stoddard (August 7, 1843 April 23, 1909) was an American author and editor best known for his travel books about Polynesian life. Biography Charles Warren Stoddard was born in Rochester, New York on August 7, 1843. He was desce ...

* Mark Twain *

John L. Wasserman John L. Wasserman (August 13, 1938 – February 25, 1979) was an American entertainment critic for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1964 until the time of his death in 1979. Known more for humor and originality than in-depth analysis, he's best k ...

By the early decades of the 20th century, San Francisco supported four major dailies and numerous influential weeklies. The dailies were the ''

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'' (later ''Call-Bulletin''), the '' San Francisco Examiner'', the ''

San Francisco Chronicle The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded in 1865 as ''The Daily Dramatic Chronicle'' by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. The ...

'' and the

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-owned '' Daily News''. The weeklies included the ''

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'', the ''

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'', the '' Labor Clarion'', the '' Coast Seamen's Journal'', ''

Emanu-el Emanu-El (also spelled Emanuel) ( he, עִמָּנוּאֵל ''imanuél'', "God swith us", from עִמָּנוּ ''imánu'', "with us" + אֵל ''el'', "God"), or Temple Emanuel, may refer to the following Jewish synagogues: Australia *Emanuel Sy ...

'', '' Liberator'' and the ''

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''. Today, several newspapers, covering community, regional, national, and international news, and community-specific papers, catering to niche markets and individual neighborhoods, are in circulation in the San Francisco Bay Area. The major English-language newspapers include the daily ''

East Bay Times The ''East Bay Times'' is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Walnut Creek, California, United States, owned by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of Media News Group, that serves Contra Costa County, California, Contra Costa and Al ...

'', ''

'', '' San Francisco Examiner'', and ''

San Jose Mercury News ''The Mercury News'' (formerly ''San Jose Mercury News'', often locally known as ''The Merc'') is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published by the Bay Area News Group, a subsidia ...

''. The weekly alternative papers are the ''

Metro Silicon Valley ''Metro'' is a free weekly newspaper published by the San Jose, California, based Metro Newspapers. Also known as ''Metro Silicon Valley'', as well as ''Metroactive'' online, the paper serves the greater Silicon Valley area. In addition to print ...

'', ''

East Bay Express The ''East Bay Express'' is an Oakland-based weekly newspaper serving the Berkeley, Oakland and East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is distributed throughout Alameda County and parts of Contra Costa County every Wednesday. The ' ...

'', and ''

SF Weekly ''SF Weekly'' was a free alternative weekly newspaper founded in the 1970s in San Francisco, California. It was distributed every Thursday, and was published by the San Francisco Print Media Company. The paper has won national journalism awards ...

''. ''

The Epoch Times ''The Epoch Times'' is a far-right international multi-language newspaper and media company affiliated with the Falun Gong new religious movement. The newspaper, based in New York City, is part of the Epoch Media Group, which also operates New ...

'', '' Singtao Daily'', ''

World Journal ''World Journal'' () is a Pan-Blue Taiwanese broadsheet newspaper published in North America. It is the largest Chinese language newspaper in the United States and one of the largest Chinese language newspapers outside of Greater China, with a ...

'', and ''Kangzhongguo'' are among the Asian newspapers that serve the Bay Area.

Newspapers

* ''

'' (Walnut Creek) – daily broadsheet * '' The Daily News'' (Palo Alto) – weekly tabloid * ''

'' (Oakland) – weekly alternative * ''

Marin Independent Journal The ''Marin Independent Journal'' is the main newspaper of Marin County, California. The paper is owned by California Newspapers Partnership which is in turn mostly owned by MediaNews Group.

'' (

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) – daily broadsheet * ''

'' (

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) – weekly broadsheet * ''

The Mercury News ''The Mercury News'' (formerly ''San Jose Mercury News'', often locally known as ''The Merc'') is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published by the Bay Area News Group, a subsidia ...

'' (San Jose) – daily broadsheet * ''

'' (San Jose) – weekly alternative * '' El Observador'' (San Jose) Spanish/English bilingual weekly * ''

Palo Alto Daily Post ''The Daily Post'' is a free newspaper in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2008 by the ''Palo Alto Daily News's'' founders, Dave Price and Jim Pavelich, who had sold that paper to new owners three years earlier. ''The Post'' is published Monday- ...

'' (Palo Alto) daily tabloid * ''

Palo Alto Weekly The ''Palo Alto Weekly'' is a weekly community newspaper in Palo Alto in the U.S. state of California. Owned by Embarcadero Media, it serves Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Portola Valley, Stanford, East Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills. It was ...

'' (Palo Alto) weekly tabloid * ''The Recorder'' (San Francisco) – daily legal newspaper * ''

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'' (San Francisco) – weekly business * ''

'' (San Francisco) – daily broadsheet * ''

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'' (San Francisco) – daily legal newspaper * ''

The San Francisco Examiner The ''San Francisco Examiner'' is a newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, and published since 1863. Once self-dubbed the "Monarch of the Dailies" by then-owner William Randolph Hearst, and flagship of the Hearst Corporat ...

'' (San Francisco) – daily tabloid * ''

Silicon Valley Business Journal American City Business Journals, Inc. (ACBJ) is an American newspaper publisher based in Charlotte, North Carolina. ACBJ publishes The Business Journals, which contains local business news for 44 markets in the United States, Hemmings Motor New ...

'' (San Jose) – weekly business * Several other community-based papers, published on a daily or weekly basis ;Former newspapers * '' Alameda Times-Star'' (Alameda) * '' The Argus'' (Fremont) – daily broadsheet * ''

Contra Costa Times The ''East Bay Times'' is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Walnut Creek, California, United States, owned by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of Media News Group, that serves Contra Costa and Alameda counties, in the East ...

'' (Walnut Creek) – daily broadsheet * ''

Daily Review The ''Daily Review'' was a daily newspaper published in Hayward, California. Floyd L. Sparks was owner of the ''Review'' from 1944 to 1985, along with '' The Argus'' of Fremont and the ''Tri-Valley Herald''. It was last owned by Bay Area News Gr ...

'' (Hayward) – daily broadsheet * ''

Oakland Tribune The ''Oakland Tribune'' is a weekly newspaper published in Oakland, California, by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of MediaNews Group. Founded in 1874, the ''Tribune'' rose to become an influential daily newspaper. With the declin ...

'' (Oakland) – daily broadsheet * ''

Peninsula Times Tribune The ''Peninsula Times Tribune'' was a daily newspaper serving Palo Alto, Redwood City, and neighboring cities in the San Francisco Peninsula of California. It was published by the Tribune Newspaper Company from 1979 to 1993. History The ''Times ...

'' (Palo Alto) – daily broadsheet * '' Redwood City Daily News'' (Redwood City) daily tabloid * ''

San Francisco Bay Guardian The ''San Francisco Bay Guardian'' was a free alternative newspaper published weekly in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1966 by Bruce B. Brugmann and his wife, Jean Dibble. The paper was shut down on October 14, 2014. It was relaun ...

'' – weekly

alternative Alternative or alternate may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Alternative (''Kamen Rider''), a character in the Japanese TV series ''Kamen Rider Ryuki'' * ''The Alternative'' (film), a 1978 Australian television film * ''The Alternative ...

* '' San Francisco Progress'' thrice-weekly broadsheet * ''

'' (San Francisco) – weekly walternative * ''

San Mateo County Times The ''San Mateo County Times'' was a daily newspaper published by the Media News Group. The paper is distributed throughout San Mateo County, Monday through Saturday. Before being sold in 1996, it had been published for over 100 years as the ' ...

'' (San Mateo) – daily broadsheet ;Ethnic newspapers Aside from the major English broadsheets, the Bay Area also publishes newspapers catering to the large ethnic communities in the region, including: * '' Calitoday'' (San Jose) Vietnamese/English bilingual semiweekly * ''

'' (San Francisco) – Chinese daily broadsheet * ''Hromada'' ( Corte Madera) - Ukrainian - It was co-created created in 2017 by Lesya Castillo, who in 2022 served as the main editor. * ''

International Daily News ''International Daily News'' (), also known as ''Guoji Ribao'', is a major Chinese-language newspaper in North America and Indonesia. It is a pro-mainland newspaper, sold in several major Chinatowns. The newspaper was founded and owned by Lee Y ...

'' (San Francisco) – Chinese daily broadsheet * ''Kanzhongguo Times'' (

Milpitas Milpitas (Spanish for "little milpas") is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in Silicon Valley. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 80,273. The city's origins lie in Rancho Milpitas, granted to Californio ranchero José Marí ...

) – Chinese * '' The Oakland Post'' (Oakland) – African American * ''

San Francisco Bay View The ''San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper'' is an online and print newspaper, published in San Francisco, California. It covers events from an African-American perspective, with a focus on Black liberation and coverage of worldwide r ...

'' (San Francisco) – African American * '' Sing Tao Daily'' (

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) – Chinese daily broadsheet * '' Vietnam Daily News'' (San Jose) Vietnamese daily * '' Vision Hispana'' (Alameda) – Hispanic * ''

'' (San Francisco) – Chinese daily broadsheet * Several other Asian and Hispanic newspapers ;Former ethnic newspapers * '' Cái Đình Làng'' (San Francisco) Vietnamese * '' Nuevo Mundo'' (San Jose) Spanish weekly * '' SaigonUSA'' (San Jose) Vietnamese semiweekly * ''

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'' (San Francisco) Vietnamese * '' Trống Đồng'' (San Jose) Vietnamese weekly * '' Viet Mercury'' (San Jose) Vietnamese weekly * ''

East West The Chinese American Journal East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sunrise, Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from ...

'' (San Francisco) Chinese English weekly * '' Việt Nam Tự Do'' (San Jose) Vietnamese daily * '' Viet Tribune'' (San Jose) Vietnamese weekly * '' Vietnam Family'' (, San Jose) Vietnamese weekly * '' Vietnam Mom'' (, San Jose) Vietnamese monthly * ''

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'' (, San Jose) Vietnamese daily * '' VTimes'' (San Jose) Vietnamese Several college newspapers also exist as well in the Bay Area, including: * '' The Advocate'' (

Contra Costa College Contra Costa College is a public community college in San Pablo, California. It is the west campus of the Contra Costa Community College District. It is part of the California community colleges system, one of the three college systems in Califor ...

) weekly broadsheet * ''The Campanil'' (

Mills College Mills College at Northeastern University is a private college in Oakland, California and part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was ...

) * ''

The Daily Californian ''The Daily Californian'' (''Daily Cal'') is an independent, student-run newspaper that serves the University of California, Berkeley, campus and its surrounding community. It formerly published a print edition four days a week on Monday, Tuesd ...

'' (

UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant uni ...

) daily broadsheet * ''Golden Gate XPress'' (

San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different ...

) * ''Pioneer'' ( CSU Hayward) weekly * ''

San Francisco Foghorn The ''San Francisco Foghorn'' is the official student newspaper of the University of San Francisco. The newspaper was founded in 1903 as ''The Saint Ignatius''. It changed its name to the ''San Francisco Foghorn'' in August 1928, and is one of ...

'' (

University of San Francisco The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private Jesuit university in San Francisco, California. The university's main campus is located on a setting between the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park. The main campus is nicknamed "The Hil ...

) weekly tabloid * '' The Santa Clara'' ( Santa Clara University) weekly tabloid * ''Spartan Daily'' (

San Jose State University San José State University (San Jose State or SJSU) is a public university in San Jose, California. Established in 1857, SJSU is the oldest public university on the West Coast and the founding campus of the California State University (CSU) sy ...

) thrice-weekly broadsheet * ''

The Stanford Daily ''The Stanford Daily'' is the student-run, independent daily newspaper serving Stanford University. ''The Daily'' is distributed throughout campus and the surrounding community of Palo Alto, California, United States. It has published since the ...

'' ( Stanford University) daily broadsheet * ''Synapse'' (

UC San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It condu ...

)

Magazines

* '' 7x7'' * '' Afar'' * '' Bay Nature'' * '' The Believer'' * '' Bob Cut Mag'' * ''The Bold Italic'' * '' Dwell'' * ''

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'' * ''

McSweeney's McSweeney's Publishing is an American non-profit publishing house founded by Dave Eggers in 1998 and headquartered in San Francisco. Initially publishing the literary journal'' Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', the company has moved to ...

'' magazine and publishing house * '' Macworld'' * ''

Mother Jones Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onwards, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She h ...

'' * '' Salon'' * ''

'' magazine * ''

SOMA Soma may refer to: Businesses and brands * SOMA (architects), a New York–based firm of architects * Soma (company), a company that designs eco-friendly water filtration systems * SOMA Fabrications, a builder of bicycle frames and other bicycle ...

'' * '' Sunset'' * ''

Wired ''Wired'' (stylized as ''WIRED'') is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics. Owned by Condé Nast, it is headquartered in San ...

'' * '' FourTwoNine''

Television

The San Francisco Bay Area is currently the sixth-largest television market in the United States, with four of the six major U.S.

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s ( ABC,

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, and Fox) having owned-and-operated stations serving the region. All five, plus major Spanish-language networks

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Univision Univision () is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the Latino public and includes ...

, and

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, also own and operate stations that serve the San Francisco market.

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KTVU KTVU (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Oakland, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's Fox network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside San Jose ...

KICU KICU-TV (channel 36), branded on-air as KTVU Plus, is an independent television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned by Fox Television Stations alongside Oakland-licensed Fox ...

studios (left) overlooking the

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in Oakland's

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KPIX-TV KPIX-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's CBS network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside C ...

/ KBCW studios, north of San Francisco's

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North San Jose Innovation District Rincon de los Esteros, also known as Innovation Triangle, the Golden Triangle, the Innovation District, or simply as Rincon, is a vast district of San Jose, California, making up a significant portion of North San Jose. The district has one of ...

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studios, west of The Embarcadero;

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is housed in the same building. In addition to local television channels, several television networks have regional news bureaus in the San Francisco Bay Area, including

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