Editing Plainview, Texas (section)

==Media==
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The [[Plainview Daily Herald|''Plainview Herald'']], formerly the ''Plainview Daily Herald'', is the city's only remaining newspaper. It was acquired from local owners by [[Hearst Communications]] in 1979. It is among the oldest newspapers in Texas still in publication, and became fully computer paginated in 1994, the same year it began publishing an online edition. Customers in the city are also served by the ''[[Lubbock Avalanche-Journal]]'', which often reports on news from Plainview.

Eight radio stations broadcast from the city, including [[KVOP]], among the oldest in the region. KVOP's call sign originally meant "Voice of Plainview".{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}

The city is within the Lubbock television market. Due to the terrain, television stations based in Amarillo can be received over-the-air, either directly or via repeaters north of the city. Prior to 1993, virtually all stations broadcast from Lubbock and Amarillo markets were retransmitted by the local cable operator. After changes were made to must-carry rules by the [[Federal Communications Commission]], only stations from Lubbock are available to cable and [[Digital Satellite Service|digital satellite]] customers in the city.

The [[Steve Martin]] film ''[[Leap of Faith (film)|Leap of Faith]]'' (1992) was filmed in and around Plainview. Several residents were hired as extras for the film. Until 2016, a water tower east of downtown bore the name and mascot of the fictional town on which the movie was set: ''Rustwater Bengals''.

An episode of ''[[Vice (TV series)|Vice]]'' portrayed the city as a ghost town in a documentary feature called "[[List of Vice episodes#Season 2 (2014)|Deliver Us from Drought]]", despite 22,000 residents still living in the city at the time of filming.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2 new documentaries cite Plainview's plight |last=Marquez |first=Homer |url=https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/2-new-documentaries-cite-Plainview-s-plight-8392045.php |publisher=[[Plainview Daily Herald]] |date=May 21, 2014 |access-date=December 22, 2018}}</ref> The documentary featured numerous locations, many of which had been closed or abandoned for years prior, as examples of recent rural flight following a drought. The documentary followed the template of a similar short, "Dry and Drier in West Texas", which was broadcast on [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dry and Drier in West Texas – The Story Group |url=http://thestorygroup.org/texas/ |date=February 22, 2015 |access-date=December 22, 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref> Both documentaries portrayed residents of the city as excessively religious.