As of 2021, the Des Moines metropolitan area is the 67th-largest media market in the United States, as ranked by Nielsen Media Research, with 467,990 television households[1] (0.4% of all U.S. homes). The following is a summary of broadcast and print media in Des Moines, Iowa:
The Des Moines Register serves as the metropolitan area's lone daily newspaper. Owned by the Gannett Company, the Register had a daily circulation of 86,982 and a Sunday circulation of 152,239, as of 2014.[2]
| Weekly newspapers in the Des Moines metropolitan area | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Area of coverage | Focus | |||
| Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index | eastern suburbs | ||||
| Bayard News Gazette | Bayard | ||||
| Carlisle Citizen | Carlisle | ||||
| Cityview | alternative weekly | ||||
| Dallas County News | Adel and Dallas County | ||||
| Des Moines Business Record | business news | ||||
| Earlham Advocate | |||||
| Guthrie Center Times | |||||
| Guthrie County Vedette | |||||
| Indianola Record-Herald & Tribune | |||||
| Iowa Bystander | African-American community | ||||
| Northeast Dallas County Record | |||||
| Perry Chief | |||||
| Stuart Herald | |||||
| Winterset Madisonian | |||||
| Channel | Callsign | Network | Subchannels | Owner | Website | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Virtual/RF) | Channel | Programming | ||||
| 5.1 | 5.2 5.3 5.4 | http://www.weareiowa.com/ | ||||
| 8.1 | 8.2 8.3 | http://www.kcci.com | ||||
| 11.1 | 11.2 11.3 11.4 | http://www.iptv.org | ||||
| 13.1 | 13.2 13.3 13.4 | http://www.whotv.com | ||||
| 17.1 | 17.2 17.3 17.4 | http://www.kdsm.com | ||||
| 19.1 | 19.2 19.3 | Tri-State Christian Television | ||||
| 23.1 | 23.2 23.3 23.4 | Tegna Inc. | http://www.weareiowa.com/kcwi | |||
| 39.1 | 39.2 39.3 39.4 39.5 39.6 | |||||