Minneapolis, Minnesota

:This article is about the city in Minnesota, USA. There are two other cities named Minneapolis in the United States: Minneapolis, Kansas and Minneapolis, North Carolina. For an overview of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, see Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Media

The major daily newspaper in Minneapolis is the Star Tribune, which competes with St. Paul's Pioneer Press. Both of those are subscription-based papers, while a number of other publications in the city are entirely funded by advertising. The best-known community papers are the Southwest Journal, Skyway News, Seward Profile, Southside Pride and North News. The Minneapolis Observer covers the entire city. The Minnesota Daily, a student-run newspaper at the University of Minnesota, is also produced in Minneapolis and has the third-largest circulation in the region. Significant free Minneapolis-based metro-area weeklies include City Pages and Pulse of the Twin Cities, with 2002 newcomer The Rake offering some competition in the form of a free monthly.

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Star Tribune - St. Paul - Pioneer Press - Subscription - Advertising - Southwest Journal - City Pages - Pulse of the Twin Cities - The Rake

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WCCO Channel 4, a CBS affiliate, is the only major Twin Cities television outlet that originates its broadcasts from within the city limits of Minneapolis today. Their studios are at the south end of Nicollet Mall in the downtown area. All of the other significant stations broadcasting to the metro area are based in neighboring St. Paul or the suburbs. However, KSTP Channel 5, an ABC affiliate, is located right at the border between the two cities along University Avenue. Other TV stations that can be received in Minneapolis include:

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WCCO - CBS - Television - Nicollet Mall - St. Paul - KSTP - ABC

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• KTCA Channel 2 (PBS)
• KMSP Channel 9 (Fox)
• KARE Channel 11 (NBC)
• KTCI Channel 17 (PBS)
• KMWB Channel 23 (WB)
• WFTC Channel 29 (UPN)
• KPXM Channel 41 (i)
• KSTC Channel 45 (Independent)

Significant radio stations that can be received in the city include:

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• KFXN 690 AM ("The Score", sports and talk, "broadcasting from a swamp in New Hope")
• KUOM 770 AM/106.5 FM ("Radio K", college rock)
• WCCO 830 AM ("The Good Neighbor", talk)
• KTNF 950 AM ("Air America Minnesota", talk)
• KFAN 1130 AM ("The Fan", sports and talk)
• KSTP 1500 AM (talk)
• KBEM 88.5 FM ("Jazz 88", jazz)
• KNOW 91.1 FM ("Minnesota Public Radio", news)
• KCMP 89.3/KMSE 88.7 FM ("The Current", indie rock)
• KQRS 92.5 FM ("KQ92", classic rock)
• KXXR 93.7 FM ("93X", rock, heavy metal)
• KSTP 94.5 FM ("KS95", 80s, 90s, contemporary)
• KTTB 96.3 FM ("B96", "100% blazin' Hip-Hop and R&B")
• KTCZ 97.1 FM ("Cities 97", adult alternative)
• KTIS 98.5 FM (contemporary Christian)
• KSJN 99.5 FM ("Minnesota Public Radio" classical)
• KJZI 100.3 FM ("Smooth Jazz 100.3", smooth jazz)
• KDWB 101.3 FM ("#1 for today's hit music")
• KEEY 102.1 FM ("K-102 - Today's Country and Your All Time Favorites")
• WLTE 102.9 FM ("102.9 Lite FM", adult contemporary)
• KZJK 104.1 FM ("jack FM - playing what we want")
• WGVX 105.1/WGVY 105.3/WGVZ 105.7 FM ("Drive 105", adult alternative)
• WFMP 107.1 FM ("FM 107", talk radio)
• KQQL 107.9 FM ("Kool 108", oldies)

The communications towers on top of the IDS Tower in downtown Minneapolis mark the highest points in the city and are used by a few low- to medium-power broadcasters such as Univision and the Home Shopping Network. A number of major broadcasters attempted to use that site in the years after the IDS was built, but because of technical difficulties such as multipath interference, most of them now use other sites in the suburbs. Probably the most significant collection of transmitters is in Shoreview, Minnesota. The IDS is still maintained as a backup transmission site. At least one small radio station, KFAI, uses the antenna atop the Foshay Tower, which had been the city's highest point until the IDS Center went up in the 1970s.

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IDS Tower - Univision - Home Shopping Network - Multipath - Shoreview, Minnesota - KFAI - Foshay Tower - 1970s

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