Annapolis: Communications

Newspapers and Magazines

The Capital is Annapolis's daily paper. Publick Enterprise is the local twice-monthly community newspaper, and the

Maryland Farmer is an area agricultural newspaper. The city's local magazine is called Inside Annapolis.

Other locally published magazines include Chesapeake Bay Magazine, a boating publication; Chesapeake Family, a consumer parenting magazine; the Maryland Register, which focuses on public administration and law; Municipal Maryland, a publication of the Maryland Municipal League aimed at elected and appointed Maryland city officials; the Naval Institute's Proceedings, a magazine on naval and maritime news; and alumni magazines of the local colleges.

Television and Radio

The city is served by seven commercial television stations and one public station from metropolitan Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. Annapolis area radio stations include FM stations WHFS, an alternative/modern rock station and WFSI, a religious station, and AM stations WNAV, an adult contemporary station and WBIS, a business news station. The U.S. Naval Academy broadcasts on station WRNV, while Anne Arundel Community College is served by station WACC.

Media Information: Capital Gazette Newspapers , 2000 Capital Drive, Annapolis, MD 21401; telephone (410)268-5000

Annapolis Online

Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Chamber of Commerce. Available www.annapolischamber.com

Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Conference & Visitors Bureau. Available www.visitannapolis.org

Anne Arundel County Public Library. Available www.aacpl.lib.md.us

Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation. Available www.aaedc.org

Anne Arundel Medical Center. Available www.aahealthsystem.org

The Capital newspaper. Available www.capitalonline.com

City of Annapolis. Available www.ci.annapolis.md.us

Selected Bibliography

Martin, William, Annapolis (New York, NY: Warner Books, 1997)

Risjord, Norman K., Builders of Annapolis: Character and Enterprise in a Colonial Capital (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1997)