Editing Dixon, California (section)

==Media==
The ''Dixon Independent Voice'' was founded in 1993 (first as ''The Dixon Newspaper'')<ref>{{cite book |last1=Paul |first1=Bil |title=The Train Never Stops In Dixon |date=March 15, 2015 |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015 |isbn=978-1-5076-1791-5 |edition=1st |pages=178}}</ref> and is the main paper of circulation today.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://business.dixonchamber.org/directory/Details/dixon-independent-voice-1576798 |title=Dixon Independent Voice |publisher=Dixon Chamber of Commerce}}</ref> It is published weekly and is owned by Messenger Publishing Group.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independentvoice.com/about/index.php |title=About |website=Dixon Independent Voice |publisher=Messenger Publishing Group}}</ref> The ''Dixon Tribune'' newspaper was founded November 14, 1874.,<ref name="Munro-Fraser" /> but ceased publication after its January 31, 2024 issue.<ref>{{cite web |date=February 2, 2024 |title=Dixon Tribune Closes |url=https://www.independentvoice.com/2024/02/02/480320/dixon-tribune-closes |access-date=September 19, 2024 |website=Dixon Independent Voice}}</ref>
[[File:Voice_of_America_Transmitters_at_Dixon,_California_01.jpg|alt=Voice of America Transmitters|thumb|Voice of America Transmitters]]
Historically, the [[Voice of America]] ran a [[shortwave]] transmitter site that was formerly owned and operated by [[NBC]]. NBC built the site in 1944,<ref name="Berg2">{{cite book |last1=Berg |first1=Jerome |title=The Early Shortwave Stations A Broadcasting History Through 1945 |date=2013 |publisher=McFarland, Incorporated |isbn=9780786474110 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSWXAAAAQBAJ&dq=%22knba%22+%22dixon%22+1944&pg=PA247 |access-date=August 23, 2022}}</ref> and it broadcast under the call signs KNBA, KNBH, KNBI, KNBC, and KNBX.<ref name="Berg" /> The station was closed between September 2, 1979, and October 1, 1983, and briefly reopened for Spanish language broadcasting until 1988.<ref name="Berg">{{cite book |last1=Berg |first1=Jerome |title=Broadcasting on the Short Waves 1945 to Today |date=October 24, 2008 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786451982 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ux9fZj6izuEC&q=%20%22dixon%22 |access-date=August 23, 2022}}</ref><ref name="GAO">{{cite web |title=Proposed Closure of VOA Dixon Relay Station ID-79-42 |url=https://www.gao.gov/products/id-79-42 |website=GAO |access-date=August 23, 2022}}</ref> The station served as a relay to both NBC International programming overseas, and as a relay of [[KNBR (AM)|KNBR]] and its programming overseas, mostly the Pacific area.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eham.net/articles/14253|title=The Mystery of the Dixon Voice of America Relay Station|last=Stevenson|first=Merrill|date=June 30, 2016|website=eham.net|access-date=February 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226054719/http://www.eham.net/articles/14253|archive-date=December 26, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> There is also a military transmission site, the [[Dixon Naval Radio Transmitter Facility]].<ref name="Patch2">{{cite news |last1=Paul |first1=Bil |title=Old AT&T Radio Station South of Dixon to Close Down |url=https://patch.com/california/dixon/bp--old-att-radio-station-south-of-dixon-to-close-down |access-date=August 23, 2022 |agency=Patch |date=May 9, 2013}}</ref>