Newspapers:

EDGE-OF-AREA:
Staunton - The News Leader
Waynesboro - The News-Virginian
Waynesboro - Augusta Free Press
Fredericksburg - Free Lance-Star
Greene Co. - Greene Co. Record
Culpeper - The Star-Exponent
Fluvanna Co. - Fluvanna Review

FARTHER BUT BEEFY ONLINE:
Lexington - The News-Gazette
Lynchburg -The News & Advance
Roanoke -The Roanoke Times
Newport News -The Daily Press
Norfolk -The Virginian-Pilot
Washington Post
Washington Times
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Style Weekly - Richmond

MORE VIRGINIA DAILIES
The Journal newspapers, NoVa
Bristol Herald-Courier
Winchester Star
Martinsville Bulletin
Potomac News
Danville Register & Bee
Virginian Review
Coalfield Progress
Hopewell News

EDGE-OF-AREA PAPERS WITHOUT MUCH ONLINE BEEF:
Fluvanna Co. - The Fluvanna Review
Louisa Co. - The Central Virginian
Nelson Co. - Nelson County Times
Madison Co. - Madison Eagle
Harrisonburg - The Daily News-Record
Culpeper - The Culpeper Citizen (weekly)
Buckingham - Buckingham Beacon (monthly)
Scottsville area - The Rural Virginian
Nelson County Life - yep

NON-DAILIES
Hanover Herald-Progress
Leesburg Today
Loudoun Times-Mirror
Washington Business Journal
Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg
Fauquier Citizen
Fauquier Times-Democrat
Farmville Herald
Falls Church News-Press
Rappahannock Record
Wytheville Enterprise
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Local blogs:

NEWS/CIVICS
• The Hook's newsblog! - breaking local news
• cvillenews.com - aka 'Waldo's site'
• Charlottesville Tomorrow - growth
• Real Central VA - real estate
• Music Tonight - local music
• Bill Emory - amazing pix, comment
• Loper.org - local politics
• Fluvanna Online - Fluco stuff
• Cvilleindymedia - leftwingism
• Rick Sincere - libertarianism
• School Matters - from a Boardie
• topix.net - aggregator

BLOGGY BLOGS (ranked)
• The Book of Joe - fun new products
• Andrew Hersey - me & my pix
• BKMarcus - lowercase liberty
• Reading ... Covers - she went west
• Outskirts - some 40ish guy
• Dave McNair - a Hook dude
• Becca's Bits of My Life - me in town
---all the blogs in Charlottesville

POLITICS
Waldo Jaquith
Bacon's Rebellion
The Virginia Conservative
Virginia Progressive
Raising Kaine
Commonwealth Watch
One Man's Trash
SW Virginia Law
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Virginia News Source - "reality-based news"
---all the political blogs in Virginia

Local newspapers
The Hook
Popular wisdom when the Hook started in 2002 was that Charlottesville wasn't big enough to support another weekly. Perhaps there was a smidgen of truth to that-- sadly, the Observer, the city's oldest weekly, folded in 2004 after 26 years. Meanwhile, the Hook is the city's must-read paper every Thursday. Don't take our word for it. Ask our peers at the Virginia Press Association, which bestowed 21 writing and design prizes upon the paper in 2007, including the Association's highest honor, the VPA Award for Journalistic Integrity and Community Service. Check out our website, the most comprehensive in town, fully archived (well, mostly) and getting about two million page views each month. Whatever you need to know about Charlottesville, you'll find it in the Hook. 295-8700

The Daily Progress
Charlottesville's only daily got a redesign in 2003, so now it looks like every other Media General newspaper. Locals have nicknamed it the "Regress," perhaps because its steady turnover of underpaid, green reporters results in gaffes that could be avoided if profitable Media General paid enough to retain its journalists once they get a little experience on them. The paper's "Helping Hands" column every Monday is a real community asset. 978-7200

Cavalier Daily
The University of Virginia's student-published newspaper claims to be the oldest daily-- at least when school is in session-- in town, and its website is one of the better local sources of archived news. 924-1086

ARTS/TOURIST/NICHE PUBLICATIONS

Blue Ridge Outdoors
This all-outdoors, all-the-time monthly celebrates 10 years of hiking, biking, running, climbing and paddling in Virginia and North Carolina. 817-2755

C-ville Weekly
Home of "The Rant". Published Tuesdays. 817-2749

Charlottesville-Albemarle Tribune
Charlottesville's oldest black newspaper dates from 1950. Published every Thursday. Once only available by subscription, it's now at selected newsstands. 979-0373

Charlottesville Guide
A tourist guide. 817-2000

Charlottesville Arts & Entertainment
A monthly tourist guide with excellent maps. 295-9004

Echo
Charlottesville's oldest new-age monthly is the best source to find a feng shui consultant or go shaman shopping. 295-3407

In the Kitchen
Charlottesville's food monthly claims an eye-popping 24,000 readers here and in Lynchburg. Food and wine news, plus a meal planner with menus and recipes to see you through the month. 973-5501

Keswick Life
Monthly tabloid that documents a sumptuous world most of us can only imagine. 296-8032

Nelson County Life
"Your source for everything Nelson." Started in April 2005 by recently wed former TV reporters, the monthly eschews hard news and doesn't mind if you call its stories "fluff." 361-0104

Real Estate Weekly
The 14-year-old stitch-and-trim pub-- in glorious color and with a distribution of 11,500-- is the area's beefiest weekly. If there's a housing bubble, you won't know it from flipping through these pages. Published every Wednesday. 817-9330

Scottsville Monthly
Tales of the River City. 591-1000

INTERNET ONLY
Cvillenews.com
Local news, meta-news, and commentary hosted by Virginia Tech alum/ wunderkind Waldo Jaquith. Join the fun and sniping. Links to other media, whether their websites are viable or not.

Loper.org
Host of the city's oldest website, Dem George Loper indulges his interests in politics, bird watching and go-karts. Discourse is civil, perhaps because people sign their names to their remarks-- and because Loper's archives are awesome.

MAGAZINES
Albemarle
This mag adorns the tonier coffee tables in Charlottesville and features lifestyles of the local rich, if not famous. Published bimonthly. Available at newsstands or by subscription for $12. 817-2000

AlbemarleFamily Living
AlbemarleFamily has grown up during its seven years, from a black-and-white quarterly to a slick, award-winning monthly. In fact, we had to move it from niche publications to our magazine section, it's so glossy. And its website has always been the place to go to figure out what to do with those darn kids. 984-4713

Virginia Sportsman
These folks like to fish and hunt, and they're well educated and well-heeled, according to its website. Subscriptions for this 80-page glossy are $20 for six issues, and it's available in Barnes and Noble. 964-1620

Virginia Living This relatively new (founded in 2003) bimonthly statewide publication knocks readers' socks off with its bold splashes of color on each glossy cover and stories celebrating the vibrant lives in the Commonwealth-- many in our neck of the woods. 804-343-7539

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Multimedia:

MISC. PHOTOS
• Flickr pix tagged 'Charlottesville'

PODCASTING
• C'ville Podcasting Network
• UVA Podcasting

UVA SPORTS
• TheSabre - locally based
• Cavs Corner - part of rivals.com

COMMERCIAL RADIO
WWWV-FM 97.5, ("3WV") rock
WCYK-FM 99.7, ("New Country")
WINA-AM 1070, local news/sports/talk
WQMZ-FM 95.1, ("Z-95") light rock
WUVA-FM 92.7, ("Kiss") urban adult
WHTE-FM 101.9, ("Hot 101.9") contemporary hits
WFFX-FM 102.3, 94.1, ("Superhits") 60s, 70s, 80s
WCJZ-FM 107.5, ("Smooth jazz 107.5") jazz lite
WKAV-AM 1400, sports
WCHV-AM 1260, talk
WVAX AM 1450, Progressive Talk Radio

Charlottesville lost its last homegrown commercial radio empire in the fall of '04 when Eure Communications sold its three radio stations-- 3WV, Z-95 and WINA-- to Michigan-based Saga Communications. National behemoth Clear Channel Communications owns the other six stations, and WUVA Kiss is independently owned. Listeners, of course, just want their tunes.

Non-Commercial radio
WNRN-FM 91.9, Acoustic Sunrise and more at "New Rock Now"
WTJU-FM 91.1, Eclectic deejays bring in their CDs and vinyl
WMRA-FM 103.5, NPR from Harrisonburg
WVTF-FM 89.3 & 88.5, NPR from Roanoke
Radio IQ 89.7 & 91.5, BBC news and NPR talk

Commercial television
Depending on where you live, you can get everything-- or nothing. Adelphia has the local cable franchise. You know you're really in the country when you can pick up only two channels without a satellite dish.

Long a one-horse television town dominated by NBC29, Charlottesville is still adjusting to gaining three new stations and now having one for each major network. Gray Television moved into town in a big way and began broadcasting on WCAV Channel 19 (CBS) and WVAW Channel 16 (ABC) late in 2004. A FOX station, WAHU Channel 27, hit the airwaves in June, 2005.
Last time we checked, Charlottesville was number 185 in the 210 Nielsen designated market areas in the United States, with approximately 70,000 television households.

Commercial stations:
NBC29 (WVIR broadcast 29, cable 4)
WAHU Fox 27 (broadcast 55, cable 9) - began broadcasting June 27, 2005
CBS19 (WCAV broadcast 19, cable 6)
ABC16 (WVAW broadcast 16, cable 3)

Non-Commercial television
Yeah, an artsy town like Charlottesville has two public television stations, each claiming to be Charlottesville's own-- but neither is based here.

WHTJ PBS (broadcast 41, cable 7) Richmond-based PBS station
WVPT PBS (broadcast 50, cable 11) Harrisonburg-based PBS station

Public access television
Adelphia Cable channels 13 and 14 provide, respectively, public and education access. Watch government in action on Charlottesville TV 10, which broadcasts City Council meeting and the City of Charlottesville's two shows, Inside Charlottesville and Talk of C'ville.

Some news television stations
Richmond - WWBT-12 (NBC)
Richmond - WRIC-8 (ABC)
Richmond - WTVR-6 (CBS)
Lynchburg - WSET-13 (ABC)
Harrisonburg - WHSV-3 (ABC)

What's up with
local media?
A woman is flirting with out-of-towners in downtown's venerable C&O restaurant, and one of the male visitors asks, "What do you do for fun around here?" "I read," replies the would-be party girl. What do you expect in a town that has a book festival? She didn't get a date but this cautionary tale illustrates why, despite a downward trend in daily newspaper readers, Charlottesville claims the highest number per capita in the country, and the New York Times, Washington Post and Richmond Times-Dispatch can all be delivered to your door.

Lifestyle magazines are big in this area: the upscale Central Virginian lifestyle, the upscale fisherman's lifestyle-- or the latest addition, the upscale Nelson County lifestyle.

News racks multiply in public spaces for the dailies and the dozen or so free papers, and regulation on the Downtown Mall is imminent.

Fortunately, the bright red Hook boxes stand out from the crowd.