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Omaha metropolitan area Omaha ( ) is the List of cities in Nebraska, most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska. It is located in the Midwestern United States along the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's List of United S ...

Omaha, Nebraska Omaha ( ) is the List of cities in Nebraska, most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska. It is located in the Midwestern United States along the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's List of United S ...

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Radio

Start dates are for the frequency/station license, not for callsign or programming that may have moved from license to license. Omaha radio stations gets 25 Analog FM stations, 11 Digital

HD Radio HD Radio (HDR) is a trademark for in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio broadcast technology. HD radio generally simulcast, simulcasts an existing analog radio station in digital format with less noise and with additional text information. HD R ...

FM stations including 10 subchannels Like HD-2 and HD-3, 11 Analog AM stations, and 1 Digital HD Radio AM Station affiliated KFAB.

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Television

Omaha TV stations gets 8 full-powered Digital channels including 32 subchannels and 1 low-powered Digital channel including 2 subchannels. In Spring 2022 KXVO channel 15 was launched and became the first television station in Nebraska to use

ATSC 3.0 ATSC 3.0 is a major version of the ATSC standards for terrestrial television broadcasting created by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC). The standards are designed to offer support for newer technologies, including High Effici ...

including 3 subchannels are KMTV (CBS), KXVO (TBD), and KPTM (Fox) and 2

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subchannels both are WOWT (NBC) and KETV (ABC), and 3 Internet streaming subchannels are KYNE (PBS), T2, and Pickleball TV.

Print

The ''

Omaha World-Herald The ''Omaha World-Herald'' is a daily newspaper in the midwestern United States, the primary newspaper of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. It was locally owned from its founding in 1885 until 2020, when it was sold to the newspaper ...

'', the ''

Omaha Bee The ''Omaha Daily Bee'', in Nebraska, United States, was a leading Republican newspaper that was active in the late 19th and early 20th century. The paper's editorial slant frequently pitted it against the ''Omaha Herald'', the '' Omaha Republ ...

'', and by 1900 the ''Omaha Daily News'' had developed into the city's most influential journals. The African American community in Omaha has had several newspapers serve it. The first was the ''Progress'', established in 1889 by Ferdinand L. Barnett.

Cyrus D. Bell Cyrus Dicks Bell (August 1848 - October 21, 1925) was a journalist, civil rights activist, and civic leader in Omaha, Nebraska. He owned and edited the black newspaper ''Afro-American Sentinel'' during the 1890s. He was an outspoken political in ...

, an ex-slave, established the ''Afro-American Sentinel'' in 1892. In 1893 George F. Franklin started publishing the ''Enterprise,'' later published by Thomas P. Mahammitt. It was the longest lived of any of the early African American newspapers published in Omaha. The best known and most widely read of all African American newspapers in the city was the ''Omaha Monitor'', established in 1915, edited and published by Reverend

John Albert Williams John Albert Williams (February 28, 1866 – February 4, 1933) was a minister, journalist, and political activist in Omaha, Nebraska. He was born to an escaped slave and spoke from the pulpit and the newspapers on issues of civil rights, equality ...

. It stopped being published in 1929. In 1906, Lucille Skaggs Edwards published, The Women's Aurora, making her the first black woman to publish a magazine in Nebraska.

George Wells Parker George Wells Parker (September 18, 1882 – July 28, 1931) was an African-American political activist, historian, public intellectual, and writer who co-founded the Hamitic League of the World. Biography George Wells Parker's parents were b ...

, co-founder of the

Hamitic League of the World The Hamitic League of the World was an African American nationalist organization. Its declared aims were: The word ''Hamitic'' derives from Ham the son of Noah in the Old Testament. The organisation was founded in 1917 by George Wells Parker ...

, founded the ''New Era'' in Omaha from 1920 through until 1926. The ''Omaha Guide'' was established by B.V. and C.C. Galloway in 1927. The ''Guide'', with a circulation of over twenty-five thousand and an advertisers' list including business firms from coast to coast, was the largest African American newspaper west of the

Missouri River The Missouri River is a river in the Central United States, Central and Mountain states, Mountain West regions of the United States. The nation's longest, it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Moun ...

. The ''

Omaha Star ''The'' ''Omaha Star'' is a newspaper founded in 1938 in North Omaha, Nebraska, by Mildred Brown and her husband S. Edward Gilbert. Housed in the historic Omaha Star building in the Near North Side neighborhood, today the ''Omaha Star'' is t ...

'', founded by

Mildred Brown Mildred D. Brown (December 20, 1905 – November 2, 1989) was an African-American journalist, newspaper publisher and leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska. Part of the Great Migration, she travelled from Alabama via New York a ...

, began publication in 1938, and continues today as the only African American newspaper in Omaha.Suggs, H.L. (1996) ''The Black Press in the Middle West, 1865-1985''. Greenwood Press.

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