As of 2021, theDes Moines metropolitan area is the 67th-largest media market in the United States, as ranked byNielsen Media Research, with 467,990 television households[1] (0.4% of all U.S. homes). The following is a summary of broadcast and print media inDes Moines, Iowa:
The Des Moines Register serves as the metropolitan area's lone daily newspaper. Owned by theGannett Company, theRegister had a daily circulation of 86,982 and a Sunday circulation of 152,239, as of 2014.[2]
| Weekly newspapers in theDes Moines metropolitan area | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Area of coverage | Focus | |||
| Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index | eastern suburbs | ||||
| Bayard News Gazette | Bayard | ||||
| Carlisle Citizen | Carlisle | ||||
| Cityview | alternative weekly | ||||
| Dallas County News | Adel andDallas County | ||||
| Des Moines Business Record | business news | ||||
| Earlham Advocate | Earlham | ||||
| Guthrie Center Times | Guthrie Center | ||||
| Guthrie County Vedette | Panora andGuthrie County | ||||
| Indianola Record-Herald & Tribune | Indianola | ||||
| Iowa Bystander | African-American community | ||||
| Northeast Dallas County Record | Woodward andDallas County | ||||
| Perry Chief | Perry | ||||
| Stuart Herald | Stuart | ||||
| Winterset Madisonian | Winterset andMadison County | ||||
| Channel | Callsign | Network | Subchannels | Owner | Website | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Virtual/RF) | Channel | Programming | ||||
| 5.1 | WOI-DT | ABC | 5.2 5.3 5.4 | True Crime Network Grit Cozi TV | Tegna Inc. | [1] |
| 8.1 | KCCI | CBS | 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 | Me-TV MyNetworkTV/H&I Story Television Nosey | Hearst Television | [2] |
| 11.1 | KDIN | PBS | 11.2 11.3 11.4 | PBS Kids World Create | Iowa Public Television | [3] |
| 13.1 | WHO-DT | NBC | 13.2 13.3 13.4 | Rewind TV Antenna TV Court TV | Nexstar Media Group | [4] |
| 17.1 | KDSM-TV | FOX | 17.2 17.3 17.4 | Comet TV Charge! TBD | Sinclair Broadcast Group | [5] |
| 19.1 | KDMI | TCT | 19.2 19.3 | Sonlife TheGrio | Tri-State Christian Television | |
| 23.1 | KCWI-TV | CW | 23.2 23.3 23.4 | HSN Bounce TV Quest | Tegna Inc. | [6] |
| 39.1 | KFPX-TV | Ion | 39.2 39.3 39.4 39.5 39.6 | Court TV Laff Ion Mystery Defy TV TrueReal | E. W. Scripps Company | |
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