News media
Fresh news:
The Hook's newsblog! - local news and digest
Daily Progress - local daily
NBC29 - local televsion
CBS19, ABC16, FOX27 - local television
Cavalier Daily - student paper
WINA - news radio
UVAToday - school organ
WEATHER! - NWS station digest
C-Ville Weekly blogs - local news, arts
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
Greene Co. - Eye on Greene (online only)
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
News & Messenger
Danville Register & Bee
Virginian Review
Coalfield Progress
Hopewell News & Patriot
EDGE-OF-AREA PAPERS:
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 Scottsville Monthly
NON-DAILIES
Hanover Herald-Progress
Leesburg Today
Loudoun Times-Mirror
Washington Business Journal
Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg
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
• Nailgun - local music
• Bill Emory - amazing pix, comment
• Loper.org - local politics
• Rick Sincere - libertarianism
• UVA News Blog - PR from the U
• Monticello Avenue - a community network site
• Charlottesville Headlines - aggregator
• topix.net - aggregator
BLOGGY BLOGS
• The Book of Joe - fun new products
• Reading ... Covers - she went west
• Dave McNair - a Hook dude
• Mas to Miller's - on food
• The Dish - Hook food news
• Beyond the Flavor - food photos
• Cville Connect - audio news
• Charlotesville Blogs - agregator
POLITICS
Waldo Jaquith
Bacon's Rebellion
Blue Virginia
Sabato's Crystal Ball
SW Virginia Law
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 has bestowed 130 awards on us since our first year of eligibility in 2004. Our website may be the most comprehensive in town, fully archived, and getting more than 80,000 page views a week. Whatever you need to know about Charlottesville, you'll find it in the Hook. 295-8700
C-Ville Weekly
Charlotesville's other free weekly features extensive arts and news coverage, plus special supplements like Abode, a guide to cutting-edge home design, decor, and lifestyle. Also runs the popular Best of C-Ville issue, where the community votes on the top restaurants, bars, shops, venues, and other things around town. 817-2749
The Daily Progress
2012 was a big year for the Daily Progress. Warren's Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway bought the paper, along with 63 other Media General newspapers, for $142 million. Snarky locals may call it the "Regress," due to the green reporters, but when there's big news in town, they usually know it. 978-7200
Cavalier Daily
The University of Virginia's student-published newspaper claims to be Charlottesville's oldest daily– though they recently quit publishing on Fridays. 924-1086
ARTS/TOURIST/NICHE PUBLICATIONS
Blue Ridge Outdoors
This all-outdoors, all-the-time monthly celebrates hiking, biking, running, climbing and paddling in Virginia and North Carolina. 817-2755
The Crozet Gazette
Published on the first Thursday of every month, the Crozet Gazette has made a name for itself by running timely, well-reported stories about our neighboring village to the west and surrounding areas. 434-466-8939 /434-249-4211
The Yellow Journal
The University of Virginia's version of the Onion. A satirical newspaper that claims to be "Definitively Inaccurate Since 1912." staff@theyellowjournal.com
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
Echo
Charlottesville's oldest new-age monthly is the best source to find a feng shui consultant or go shaman shopping. 295-3407
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" since 2005. 361-0104
Real Estate Weekly
The area's go-to guide for house-shopping. Published every Wednesday. 817-9330
Scottsville Monthly
Tales of the River City. 591-1000
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
From a black-and-white quarterly to a slick and award-winning monthly, this thing has grow from niche publications to our magazine section, it's so glossy. And its website has always been a good place for figuring 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
Glossy 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
Flavor Magazine
Bimonthy food mag covering the local food movement, and its people, in the Piedmont region. 540-987-9299
Breathe
Says it's "a lifestyle magazine for on-the-go women, offering insightful perspectives on health and fitness, food and nutrition, outdoor adventures, as well as style and living." Okeydokey. Big, beautiful covers with either attractive women or food. 817-2755 x29
Forward/Adelante Virginia's first bilingual business journal (English and Spanish). 960-4037
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Multimedia:
MISC. PHOTOS
• Flickr pix tagged 'Charlottesville'
PODCASTING
• C'ville Podcasting Network
• UVA Podcasting
UVA SPORTS
• TheSabre - venerable and very newsy
• StreakingTheLawn - fan-based news
• 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
WKAV-AM 1400, sports
WCHV-AM 1260, news/talk
WCJZ-FM 107.5, simulcasts WCHV's news/talk
WVAX AM 1450, sports talk (switched from liberal talk in 2011)
WCNR 106.1 "The Corner" adult alternative music, talk, community engagement
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. Comcast has the local cable franchise, and there are still plenty of swaths of the county with no cable access.
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 186 in the 210 Nielsen designated market areas in the United States, with approximately 76,000 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
Comcast Cable channels 13 and 14 provide, respectively, public and education access. Watch government in action on Charlottesville TV 10, which broadcasts City Council meeting.
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 could be imminent.
Fortunately, the bright red Hook boxes stand out from the crowd.
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