Editing Des Moines, Iowa (section)

===Television===
The Des Moines-Ames [[media market]] consists of 35 central Iowa counties: [[Adair County, Iowa|Adair]], [[Adams County, Iowa|Adams]], [[Appanoose County, Iowa|Appanoose]], [[Audubon County, Iowa|Audubon]], Boone, [[Calhoun County, Iowa|Calhoun]], [[Carroll County, Iowa|Carroll]], Clarke, Dallas, [[Decatur County, Iowa|Decatur]], [[Franklin County, Iowa|Franklin]], Greene, Guthrie, [[Hamilton County, Iowa|Hamilton]], [[Hardin County, Iowa|Hardin]], [[Humboldt County, Iowa|Humboldt]], Jasper, [[Kossuth County, Iowa|Kossuth]], Lucas, Madison, [[Mahaska County, Iowa|Mahaska]], Marion, [[Marshall County, Iowa|Marshall]], [[Monroe County, Iowa|Monroe]], [[Pocahontas County, Iowa|Pocahontas]], Polk, [[Poweshiek County, Iowa|Poweshiek]], [[Ringgold County, Iowa|Ringgold]], Story, [[Taylor County, Iowa|Taylor]], [[Union County, Iowa|Union]], Warren, [[Wayne County, Iowa|Wayne]], [[Webster County, Iowa|Webster]], and [[Wright County, Iowa|Wright]].<ref name="arbmap" /> It was ranked 71st by [[Nielsen Media Research]] for the 2008–2009 television season with 432,410 television households.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nielsen Media Research |title=Nielsen Local Television Market Universe Estimates |url=http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/09/10/nielsen-local-television-market-universe-estimates/5037 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401072025/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2008/09/10/nielsen-local-television-market-universe-estimates/5037/ |archive-date=April 1, 2012 |access-date=January 17, 2009 |format=XLS}}</ref>

Commercial television stations serving Des Moines include [[CBS]] affiliate [[KCCI]] channel 8, [[NBC]] affiliate [[WHO-DT]] channel 13, and [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate [[KDSM-TV]] channel 17. [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate [[WOI-TV]] channel 5 and [[The CW|CW]] affiliate [[KCWI-TV]] channel 23 are both licensed to [[Ames, Iowa|Ames]] and broadcast from studios in West Des Moines. [[KFPX-TV]] channel 39, the local [[ION Television|ION]] affiliate, is licensed to Newton. Two non-commercial stations are also licensed to Des Moines: KDIN channel 11, the local [[PBS]] member station and flagship of the [[Iowa Public Television]] network, and [[KDMI]] channel 19, a [[Tri-State Christian Television|TCT]] affiliate. [[Mediacom]] is the Des Moines area's cable television provider.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 22, 2018 |title=Sports TV listings for Des Moines and Iowa |work=[[The Des Moines Register]] |location=Des Moines, Iowa |url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/2018/04/22/sports-tv-listings-des-moines-iowa-what-channel-hawkeyes-what-channel-cyclones/513573002/ |url-status=dead |access-date=July 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20180508205231/https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/2018/04/22/sports-tv-listings-des-moines-iowa-what-channel-hawkeyes-what-channel-cyclones/513573002/?from=new-cookie |archive-date=May 8, 2018}}</ref>