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This article features the local media in Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles television and radio markets rank second in terms of DMA size behind New York, with 5.5 million TV households. BIA Financial Network puts the market's spot TV billings at $1.7 billion for 2004, up from $1.5 billion in 2003. The local media market in Los Angeles is a crowded field with more than two dozen broadcast television stations. However, just six companies control the vast majority of the market's TV revenue: NBC Universal, 24 percent; News Corp., 22.8 percent; Viacom/CBS, 17.8 percent; Disney/ABC 13.4 percent; and Univision Communications 9.5 percent.

Assesses the status of the media market in Fresno-Visalia, California as of June 2, 2003. Dominant local media companies in the area; Cable penetration in the Fresno-Visalia market; Information on the radio broadcasting market in Fresno-Visalia.

Focuses on the advertising business of San Francisco and Oakland, California. Factor that has tempered the San Francisco-Oakland market's rapid growth and has curtailed advertising spending in many local media; Most significant change on the local media scene; Comparison of the two cities in terms of media usage.

Reports on the developments in the local media of San Francisco, California. Purchase of the newspaper `San Francisco Chronicle' by Hearst Corp; Sale of the newspaper `San Francisco Examiner' magazine to the Fang family; Updates on the radio market.

Provides information on local mass media in the United States as of April 10, 2000. Expansion of `Quest,' a luxury lifestyle magazine in metropolitan New York; Termination of the radio programs hosted by Art Bell due to his retirement; Hunger strike staged by employees of Univision-owned KFTV-TV in Fresno, California.