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 -->>>LINKS TO SOME OTHER VA. PAPERS
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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.
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