Oklahoma City: Communications

Newspapers and Magazines

Oklahoma City has one morning daily newspaper, the Oklahoman, and one business newspaper, The Journal Record. More than a dozen weekly, semiweekly, and bimonthly newspapers are published there, including The Black Chronicle and Capital Hill Beacon, and The Sooner Catholic. Among the more than two dozen magazines and journals published in Oklahoma City are the lifestyle magazine Oklahoma Living Magazine; Oklahoma Today Magazine, focusing on travel, nature, recreation, and American Indian and New West issues; and others focusing on livestock, pharmacy, retailing, and trades.

Television and Radio

Oklahoma City has ten television stations: one commercial station broadcasting religious programming, two independents, three PBS stations, and four stations affiliated with the major networks. Stations also broadcast from nearby towns and cable television is available throughout the metropolitan area. In addition, Oklahoma City radio provides listeners with a choice of 13 AM and 20 FM stations.

Media Information: Oklahoman, PO Box 25125, Oklahoma City, OK 73114; telephone (405)475-3311

Oklahoma City Online

City of Oklahoma City Home Page. Available www.okc.gov

Metropolitan Library System. Available www.mls.lib.ok.us

Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce. Available www.okcchamber.com

Oklahoma City Convention and Visitors Bureau. Available www.okccvb.org

Oklahoma City Public Schools. Available www.okcps.k12.ok.us

Oklahoma Community Links. Available www.state.ok.us/osfdocs/county.html

Oklahoma Department of Commerce. Available www.kcommerce.com

Oklahoman. Available www.oklahoman.com

Tinker Air Force Base (unofficial site). Available wwwext.tinker.af.mil/default.asp

Selected Bibliography

Knight, Marsha (compiler), Forever Changed: Remembering Oklahoma City, April 19, 1995 (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1998)