Editing Decatur, Alabama (section)

==Media==
===Newspapers===
''[[The Decatur Daily]]'' has been the only major newspaper based in the Decatur Metropolitan Area since 1912, and one of the few family owned newspapers in Alabama. It has an average daily circulation of 20,824 and a Sunday circulation of 23,840. The paper circulates in the morning to an area that includes [[Morgan County, Alabama|Morgan County]], [[Lawrence County, Alabama|Lawrence County]], and [[Limestone County, Alabama|Limestone County]], and parts of [[Cullman County, Alabama|Cullman County]], and [[Winston County, Alabama|Winston County]].{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}

''[[The Huntsville Times]]'' is the only other newspaper with a larger circulation in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area, and has been in circulation since 1996 to most area counties, when the ''Huntsville News'' closed. Before then, the ''News'' was the morning paper, and the ''Times'' was the afternoon paper. After the ''News'' closed, the ''Times'' remained an afternoon paper until 2004.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}

===Cable/Phone===
[[Spectrum Internet|Spectrum]], [[AT&T Inc.|AT&T]] and [[Wide Open West|WOW!]] offer [[cable TV]] to Decatur. [[AT&T Inc.|AT&T]], Spectrum and WOW! offer phone service to Decatur. With AT&T, Huntsville and Madison are local calls (Madison County only), but Athens is long distance. Decatur comes within {{convert|3|mi|km|0}} of Athens and touches Huntsville. AT&T has begun rolling out their fiber network as of 2018.