Media in Omaha, Nebraska

This is a list of media serving the Omaha metropolitan area in Omaha, Nebraska and Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Radio

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Start dates are for the frequency/station license, not for callsign or programming that may have moved from license to license. Omaha radio stations gets 25 Analog FM stations, 10 Digital HD Radio FM stations including 9 subchannels Like HD-2 and HD-3, 11 Analog AM stations, and 1 Digital HD Radio AM Station affiliated KFAB.

AM radio stations
Frequency HD Call sign Name Format Owner City
590 AM Repeats on KEZO-HD2 KXSP AM 590
ESPN Radio
Sports SummitMedia Omaha, Nebraska
660 AM No KCRO Omaha's Christian Talk Christian Talk Hickory Radio Omaha, Nebraska
1020 AM No KMMQ La Preciosa Spanish
(Regional Mexican)
NRG Media Plattsmouth/Omaha
1110 AM 1 KFAB NewsRadio 1110 News/Talk iHeartMedia, Inc. Omaha, Nebraska
1180 AM No KZOT The Zone 2 Sports NRG Media Bellevue/Omaha
1290 AM No KOIL -- News/Talk NRG Media Omaha, Nebraska
1340 AM No KHUB The Big Dog Country Walnut Radio Fremont, Nebraska
1420 AM No KXCB Bluffs Country 106.5 Country Hickory Radio Omaha, Nebraska
1490 AM No KIBM Boomer Radio Oldies Walnut Radio Omaha, Nebraska
1560 AM No KLNG -- Christian Wilkins Communications Council Bluffs, Iowa
1620 AM No KOZN The Zone
Fox Sports Radio
Sports NRG Media Bellevue/Omaha
FM radio stations
Frequency HD Call sign Name Format Owner City
88.1 FM No KMLV K-LOVE Contemporary Christian Music Educational Media Foundation Ralston/Omaha
88.9 FM No KYFG Spirit Catholic Radio Christian VSS Catholic Communications Omaha, Nebraska
89.7 FM No KIWR 89.7 The River College/Alternative Iowa Western Comm. Coll. Council Bluffs, Iowa
90.7 FM 3 KVNO Classical 90.7 Classical Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, Nebraska
91.5 FM 1 KIOS Omaha Public Radio/NPR Public radio Omaha Public Schools Omaha, Nebraska
92.3 FM 2 KEZO Z92 Active rock SummitMedia Omaha, Nebraska
92.7 FM No K224DJ My Bridge Radio Christian
rebroadcasts KRKR
My Bridge Radio La Vista/Omaha
93.3 FM 2 KFFF 93.3 The Wolf Classic country iHeartMedia, Inc. Bennington/Omaha
93.7 FM No K229BI Bott Radio Network Christian
rebroadcasts KLCV
Community Broadcasting Omaha, Nebraska
94.1 FM 1 KQCH Channel 94.1 Top 40 (CHR/Pop) SummitMedia Omaha, Nebraska
94.5 FM No K233CO Boomer Radio Oldies
rebroadcasts KIBM (AM)
Walnut Radio Omaha, Nebraska
96.1 FM 2 KISO 96.1 KISS FM Top 40 (CHR/Pop) iHeartMedia, Inc. Omaha, Nebraska
97.3 FM No KOBM-FM Boomer Radio Oldies Walnut Radio Blair, Nebraska
97.7 FM No KBBX-FM Lobo 97.7 Spanish
(Regional Mexican)
Flood Communications of Omaha LLC Nebraska City/Omaha
98.5 FM No KQKQ Sweet 98.5 Hot AC NRG Media Council Bluffs, Iowa
Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area
99.9 FM 2 KGOR Super Hits 99.9 Classic Hits
Oldies
iHeartMedia, Inc. Omaha, Nebraska
100.7 FM No KGBI-FM 100.7 KGBI FM Contemporary Christian music University of Northwestern – St. Paul Omaha, Nebraska
101.9 FM No KOOO The Big O-101.9 The Keg Classic rock NRG Media La Vista/Omaha
102.7 FM No KVSS Spirit Catholic Radio Christian VSS Catholic Communications Omaha, Nebraska
103.7 FM 3 KXKT Kat 103.7 Country iHeartMedia, Inc. Glenwood/Omaha
104.5 FM 2 KSRZ Star 104.5 Hot AC
80's
SummitMedia Omaha, Nebraska
105.5 FM No KFMT Gold 105.5 Classic rock NRG Media Fremont, Nebraska
105.9 FM 1 KKCD CD 105.9 Classic rock SummitMedia Omaha, Nebraska
106.9 FM No KOPW Power 106.9 Rhythmic (Hip Hop) NRG Media Plattsmouth/Omaha
107.7 FM No KIMI Air1 contemporary worship music Educational Media Foundation Malvern, Iowa/Omaha

Television

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Omaha TV stations gets 8 full-powered Digital channels including 29 subchannels and 1 low-powered Digital channel including 2 subchannels. In Spring 2022 KXVO channel 15 was launched and became the first television station in Nebraska to use ATSC 3.0 including 3 subchannels are KMTV (CBS), KXVO (TBD), and KPTM (Fox) and 2 DRM subchannels both are WOWT (NBC) and KETV (ABC).

Television stations in the Omaha Metro area (Ascending order)
Virtual
Ch.

ATSC
Call City Owner Start Digital
Ch.
RF
DTV
HD
Audio Nickname Programming
3.1 KMTV Omaha E. W. Scripps Company 1949 31 1080i 5.1
Stereo (SAP)
3 News Now CBS
3.2 720p Stereo Grit Grit
3.3 480i Stereo LAFF-TV Laff
3.4 480i Stereo Mystery Ion Mystery
3.5 480i Stereo CourtTV Court TV
6.1 WOWT Omaha Gray Television 1949 22 1080i 5.1
Stereo (SAP)
WOWT 6 News
On Your Side
NBC
6.2 480i Stereo COZI Cozi TV
6.3 480i Stereo HandI H&I
6.4 480i Stereo ION Ion Television
6.5 480i Stereo StartTV Start TV
6.6 480i Stereo Circle Circle
7.1 KETV Omaha Hearst Television 1957 20 1080i 5.1
Stereo (SAP)
Newswatch 7 ABC
7.2 480i Stereo KETV-ME Me-TV
7.3 480i Stereo STORYTV Story
7.4 480i Stereo DEFY Defy TV
7.5 480i Stereo getTV GetTV
7.6 480i Stereo QVC QVC
15.1 KXVO Omaha Mitts Telecasting
(operated through SSA by Sinclair Broadcast Group)
1995 29 480i Stereo TBD TBD
15.2 480i Stereo Stadium Stadium
15.3 480i Stereo Charge! Charge!
26.1 KYNE
NEB PUBLIC MEDIA
Omaha Nebraska Public Media Foundation 1965 17 1080i Stereo NE-PBS PBS
26.2 1080i Stereo NE-W World
26.3 480i Stereo (SAP) NE-C Create
26.4 480i Stereo (SAP) NE-KIDS PBS Kids
26.5 480i Stereo NE-FNX FNX
27.1 KOHA-LD Omaha Flood Communications of Omaha LLC 1992 27 1080i Stereo Telemundo Nebraska Telemundo
27.2 720p Stereo NCN-S News Channel Nebraska
(Ind.)
27.3 1080i Stereo DayStar Daystar
32.1 KBIN
IOWA PBS
Council Bluffs Iowa Public Broadcasting Board 1975 33 1080i Stereo IOWA PBS PBS
32.2 720p Stereo (SAP) IOWA PBS Kids PBS Kids
32.3 480i Stereo IOWA PBS World World
32.4 480i Stereo IOWA PBS Create Create
36.1 KHIN
IOWA PBS
Red Oak Iowa Public Broadcasting Board 1975 35 1080i Stereo IOWA PBS PBS
36.2 720p Stereo (SAP) IOWA PBS Kids PBS Kids
36.3 480i Stereo IOWA PBS World World
36.4 480i Stereo IOWA PBS Create Create
42.1 KPTM Omaha Sinclair Broadcast Group 1986 26 720p 5.1
Stereo (SAP)
FOX42 Fox
42.2 480i Stereo MyNetTV Dabl MyNetworkTV
Dabl
42.3 720p Stereo CW CW
42.4 480i Stereo Comet Comet

Print

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Cover page of The Progress, June 21, 1890
 
Cover page of The Afro-American Sentinel, Saturday, July 30, 1898
 
Cover of The Enterprise, April 4, 1896

The Omaha World-Herald, the Omaha Bee, and by 1900 the Omaha Daily News had developed into the city's most influential journals.

The African American community in Omaha has had several newspapers serve it. The first was the Progress, established in 1889 by Ferdinand L. Barnett. Cyrus D. Bell, an ex-slave, established the Afro-American Sentinel in 1892. In 1893 George F. Franklin started publishing the Enterprise, later published by Thomas P. Mahammitt. It was the longest lived of any of the early African American newspapers published in Omaha. The best known and most widely read of all African American newspapers in the city was the Omaha Monitor, established in 1915, edited and published by Reverend John Albert Williams. It stopped being published in 1929. In 1906, Lucille Skaggs Edwards published, The Women's Aurora, making her the first black woman to publish a magazine in Nebraska. George Wells Parker, co-founder of the Hamitic League of the World, founded the New Era in Omaha from 1920 through until 1926. The Omaha Guide was established by B.V. and C.C. Galloway in 1927. The Guide, with a circulation of over twenty-five thousand and an advertisers' list including business firms from coast to coast, was the largest African American newspaper west of the Missouri River. The Omaha Star, founded by Mildred Brown, began publication in 1938, and continues today as the only African American newspaper in Omaha.[1][2]

Current

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Historic

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Historic newspapers in the Omaha Metro area[3] alphabetical
Name Description
Arrow Founded in 1854, it was the first newspaper in Omaha
Nebraskian Founded in 1854
Times Founded in 1857
Democrat Founded in 1858
Republican Founded in 1858 under Dr. Gilbert C. Monell and from 1859 to 1861 was under E. D. Webster
Telegraph Founded in 1860
Daily Herald Founded in 1865 under Dr. George L. Miller
Daily Evening Tribune Founded in 1870 with Phineas W. Hitchcock as a chief stockholder
Evening Bee Founded in 1871
Den Danske Pioneer The Danish Pioneer was founded in Omaha in 1872 and printed in the city until 1958
Bee Founded in 1874, bought by World-Herald in 1937 and closed
The Evening World Founded in 1885; purchased The Daily Herald in 1889
The Progress Founded in 1889 by Ferdinand L. Barnett as an African-American newspaper
Afro-American Sentinel Founded in 1892 by Cyrus D. Bell as an African-American newspaper
Enterprise Founded in 1893 by George F. Franklin, later published by Thomas P. Mahammitt as an African-American newspaper
The Women's Aurora Founded in 1906 by Lucille Skaggs Edwards
Omaha Tribune Founded in 1912 as a national German-language weekly; publishing company still operates in Omaha as the Interstate Printing Company
Omaha Monitor Founded in 1915 by Father John Albert Williams as an African-American newspaper
New Era Founded in 1920 by George Wells Parker as an African-American newspaper
Omaha Guide Founded in 1927 by B.V. and C.C. Galloway as an African-American newspaper

References

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  1. ^ Federal Writers Project. (1939) "The Negro Press", The Negroes of Nebraska. Retrieved 8/26/08.
  2. ^ Suggs, H.L. (1996) The Black Press in the Middle West, 1865-1985. Greenwood Press.
  3. ^ "Early Editors' Rivalry Included Horsewhipping, With Whipper Sat Upon," Omaha First Century, Installment VII. Omaha World-Herald. Retrieved 9/15/07.
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