Editing Bartow, Florida (section)

==Media==
{{See also|Media in Tampa Bay}}
Bartow is part of the [[Tampa, Florida|Tampa]]/[[Saint Petersburg, Florida|St. Pete]] television market, the 13th largest in the country.<ref name="Top Nielsen Markets">{{cite web
| url = http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/09/10/nielsen-local-television-market-universe-estimates/5037
| title = Top Nielsen Markets
| access-date = 2010-10-19
| publisher = TV By the Numbers
| archive-date = April 1, 2012
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120401072025/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/09/10/nielsen-local-television-market-universe-estimates/5037/
| url-status = dead
}}</ref> There are two AM radio stations within the city: [[WQXM]] (1460 AM) and [[WWBF]] (1130 AM). These stations are part of the local [[Lakeland – Winter Haven, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area|Lakeland/Winter Haven]] radio market, which is the 94th largest in the country.<ref name="Arbitron Markets">{{cite web
| url = http://www.arbitron.com/home/mm001050.asp
| title = Arbitron Markets
| access-date = 2010-10-19
| publisher = Arbitron
| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101016182624/http://arbitron.com/home/mm001050.asp| archive-date= October 16, 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> In addition to the stations in the local market, people in the area have the choice of both Tampa Bay and Orlando area radio stations and as of the 2010 [[Nielsen ratings|market sweeps]] several of the most listened to stations in the market are in the Tampa Bay area.

''The [[Polk County Democrat]]'' is the only newspaper published within Bartow. It is a semi-weekly paper which began publication in 1931.<ref name="Polk County Democrat">{{cite news
| url = http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95047484/
| title = Polk County Democrat
| access-date = 2011-11-06
| publisher = Library of Congress
}}</ref> The dominant daily newspaper is ''[[The Ledger]]'' out of Lakeland, although the ''[[Tampa Tribune]]'', the ''[[News Chief]]'' out of [[Winter Haven, Florida]] and the ''[[Orlando Sentinel]]'' have some circulation in town.<ref name="The Ledger Publishers, 1996–Present">{{cite web
| url = http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/engl288.06/webprojects/finalproject/jer21/Web%20Presentation/articles/lepub.htm
| title = The Ledger Publishers, 1996–Present
| access-date = 2010-09-16
| publisher = Cornell University
}}</ref>