Editing Lafayette, Louisiana (section)

==Media==
{{see also|List of newspapers in Louisiana|List of radio stations in Louisiana|List of television stations in Louisiana}}Lafayette's major daily newspaper is ''[[The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, Louisiana)|The Daily Advertiser]]'', owned by Gannett (publishers of ''[[USA Today]]''). Established in 1865 as the ''Weekly Advertiser'', it purchased the local alternative paper, ''The Times of Acadiana'' in 1998. Other prominent newspapers in the Lafayette area include ''[[Acadiana Profile]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|title=Acadiana Profile Magazine|url=https://www.lafayettetravel.com/listing/acadiana-profile-magazine/1372/|access-date=2021-12-07|website=Lafayette Travel|language=en-us}}</ref> Baton Rouge-based ''[[The Advocate (Louisiana)|The Advocate]]'' and its local paper ''The Acadiana Advocate'',<ref>{{Cite web|title=Acadiana Advocate|url=https://www.lafayettetravel.com/listing/acadiana-advocate/1726/|access-date=2021-12-07|website=Lafayette Travel|language=en-us}}</ref> ''[[The Independent (Acadiana)|The Independent]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|title=About The Independent|url=http://theind.com/https://theind.com/article-permalink-20953.html|access-date=2021-12-07|website=The Independent| date=December 2014 |language=en}}</ref> and UL-based ''The Vermilion''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-08-09|title=About The Vermilion|url=https://thevermilion.net/about-us/|access-date=2021-12-07|website=The Vermilion|language=en-US}}</ref> [[The Current (news organization)|''The Current'']] is a non-profit online news organization that has published since 2017.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://thecurrentla.com/about/ |access-date=3 May 2022 |website=The Current}}</ref>

Licensing more than 22 FM and AM radio stations in its metropolitan area, Lafayette includes [[Valcour Records]] and ML1 Records in its metropolis.<ref>{{cite web|date=January 11, 2018|title=Local label plays with Kanye West and the stars|url=http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/2018/01/11/local-label-plays-kanye-west-and-stars/1022907001/|access-date=2021-08-14|website=The Daily Advertiser|publisher=Gannett}}</ref> Major television stations include [[KATC (TV)|KATC 3]] ([[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]), [[KLFY-TV]] ([[CBS]], with the [[The CW Plus|CW Plus]] on DT2), [[KLAF-LD]] ([[NBC]]), [[KADN-TV]] ([[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]), and [[KLPB-TV]] ([[PBS]]). Other major stations serving the Lafayette area include [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]'s [[KALB-TV]] (NBC, with CBS on DT2), Baton Rouge's [[WBRZ-TV|WBRZ]] (ABC), [[WAFB]] (CBS), [[WGMB-TV]] (Fox, with [[The CW]] on DT2), [[WVLA-TV]] (NBC), and Lake Charles' [[KPLC|KPLC-TV]] (NBC, with the CW Plus on DT2). According to [[Nielsen Media Research]], the Lafayette television market was the 123rd largest in the United States as of 2019.<ref>The Nielsen Company (September 28, 2019). "[https://www.nielsen.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/09/2019-20-dma-ranker.pdf Local Television Market Universe Estimates] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204203838/https://www.nielsen.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/09/2019-20-dma-ranker.pdf |date=2020-12-04 }}" (PDF). ''Nielsen''. Retrieved December 6, 2021.</ref>