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==Media== The ''[[Laramie Boomerang]]'' is Laramie's main newspaper. The ''Branding Iron'' is a student-run newspaper at the University of Wyoming. [[Wyoming PBS|Wyoming Public Television]] station [[KCWC-DT]], licensed to [[Central Wyoming College]] in [[Riverton, Wyoming|Riverton]], has a transmitter near Laramie known as KWYP-DT.<ref>{{cite web | title = About Wyoming Public Television | publisher = Wyoming Public Television | url = http://www.wyoptv.org/about/ | access-date = October 23, 2007 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071021134227/http://wyoptv.org/about/ | archive-date = October 21, 2007 }}</ref> Many radio stations broadcast from Laramie. Three are [[Wyoming Public Radio]] stations: [[KUWR]] ({{Frequency|91.9|FM}}); [[KUWY]] ({{Frequency|88.5|FM}}); and [[KUWL]] ({{Frequency|90.1|FM}}).<ref>{{cite web|title=Wyoming Public Radio|website=WPR.org|url=http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/WPR/|access-date=March 18, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317010741/http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/WPR/ <!-- Bot retrieved archive -->|archive-date = March 17, 2008}}</ref> The others are [[KOCA-LP]] ({{Frequency|93.5|FM}}); [[KCGY]] ({{Frequency|95.1|FM}}); [[KIMX]] ({{Frequency|104.5|FM}}); [[KLMI]] ({{Frequency|106.1|FM}}); [[KRQU]] ({{Frequency|98.7|FM}}); [[KARS-FM|KARS]] ({{Frequency|102.9|FM}}); [[KHAT]] ({{Frequency|1210|AM}}); and [[KOWB]] ({{Frequency|1290|AM}}).<ref>{{cite web|title=Radio Stations Near the City of Laramie, Wyoming|publisher=On The Radio.Net|url=http://www.ontheradio.net/cities/laramie_wy.aspx|access-date=October 23, 2007}}</ref> ===In popular culture=== ''[[The Man from Laramie]]'' was a 1955 western film starring [[James Stewart]]. It was shot in the Bonanza Creek Ranch and other places near [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]].<ref>[http://www.bonanzacreekranch.com/history.html History], Bonanza Creek Ranch</ref> From 1958 to 1962, Laramie was the setting for [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] TV series ''[[Lawman (TV series)|Lawman]]'', starring [[John Russell (actor)|John Russell]] and [[Peter Brown (actor)|Peter Brown]], and from 1959 to 1963, ''[[Laramie (TV series)|Laramie]]'' was also the name of an [[NBC]] [[Western (genre)|western]] [[television series]], starring [[John Smith (actor)|John Smith]] and [[Robert Fuller (actor)|Robert Fuller]] as ranch partners who operate a stagecoach station {{convert|12|mi|km|0}} east of the city.<ref>{{Citation|title=Laramie|date=September 15, 1959|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052481/?ref_=kw_li_tt|type=Western|others=Robert Fuller, John Smith, Spring Byington, [[Dennis Holmes]]|publisher=Revue Studios, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)|access-date=September 6, 2020}}</ref> In July 2017, the 83-year-old Fuller visited the city for the first time, serving as grandmaster of Laramie's annual Jubilee Days parade and festivities. Laramie in its early days is also featured in Seasons 4 and 5 of the [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] western [[television drama series]] ''[[Hell on Wheels (TV series)|Hell On Wheels]]'', set in California and in Laramie.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wyostatearchives.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/hell-on-wheels-truth-or-fiction-update/ |title=Hell on Wheels: Truth or Fiction |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=July 23, 2015 |website=Wyoming Postscripts |publisher=Wyoming State Archives |access-date=January 4, 2016 |quote=''Hell on Wheels'', a television series with the backdrop of the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s..., Season 5, set in California and Laramie, Wyoming, premiered last Saturday.}}</ref> In 2011, German actor and writer [[Joachim Meyerhoff]] wrote his first novel, ''Amerika'', about the year he spent as a student in Laramie. The book was a bestseller in [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ndr.de/kultur/buch/tipps/Alle-Toten-fliegen-hoch-Amerika-von-Joachim-Meyerhoff,meyerhoff103.html|date=April 26, 2011|language=de|title=''Alle Toten fliegen hoch. Amerika'' von Joachim Meyerhoff|trans-title=All the dead fly up. America|first= Heide|last= Soltau|website=[[Norddeutscher Rundfunk]]|access-date=January 9, 2018}}</ref> [[Teenage Bottlerocket]], an American punk rock band, formed in Laramie in 2000.
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