Editing Eureka, California (section)

==Media==
Though Eureka has been the base for two major daily newspapers at different times in its 150 years, only the ''[[Times-Standard]]'', owned by the Colorado-based [[Media News Group]], survives. The ''Times-Standard'' printed nearly 20,000 papers per day as of 2004;<ref name="cr1">{{cite book |title=Congressional Record, V. 150, Pt. 18, November 18, 2004, to November 19 2004 |date=October 28, 2009 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009 |isbn=978-0160844171 |pages=Page E2058 |url=https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-150/issue-133/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E2058-2 |access-date=3 September 2024}}</ref> as of 2018, its distribution was 13,000 and it published online-only on Mondays.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.times-standard.com/20120108/going-digital-times-standard-to-stop-printing-monday-editions-this-week?|title=Going digital: Times-Standard to stop printing Monday editions this week|last=Tam|first=Donna|date=January 8, 2012|work=Times-Standard|access-date=July 22, 2016}}</ref> Media News Group also owns a weekly classified advertiser, the ''Tri-City Weekly'', which promotes businesses and events in Eureka, Arcata, and Fortuna.<ref>[http://www.medianewsgroup.com/consumers/Pages/Non-Dailies.aspx Our Newspapers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512132428/http://www.medianewsgroup.com/consumers/Pages/Non-Dailies.aspx |date=May 12, 2012 }}, Media News Group</ref> ''The Eureka Reporter'', founded in 2003, became a daily in 2006, began publishing five days per week at the end of 2007, and permanently closed in November 2008.<ref name="ER">{{cite news|url=http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_10913805|title=Eureka Reporter to close doors Saturday|date=November 6, 2008|access-date=January 27, 2009|publisher=The Times-Standard|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210041355/http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_10913805|archive-date=December 10, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> The ''[https://lostcoastoutpost.com/ Lost Coast Outpost]'' is another local web-based news source. The ''[[North Coast Journal]]'', a regional weekly, moved from Arcata to Eureka in 2009. 

Eureka is also home to several alternative weekly publications. ''Senior News''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.humsenior.org/news-seniornews/senior-news/senior-news-2018-archives/ |title=Senior News Archives |publisher=Humboldt Senior Resource Center}}</ref> is a 24-page monthly newspaper distributed along a {{convert|150|mi|km|adj=on}} stretch of the Northwest California coast, published by the Humboldt Senior Resource Center since 1981. The small staff is augmented by community volunteer writers and by senior volunteers who distribute 5,000 free newspapers to more than 100 locations from Crescent City to Garberville.

Many of Humboldt County's commercial radio stations are based in Eureka: [[KINS-FM]] (106.3),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kins1063.com/|title=KINS 106.3 FM}}</ref> KWSW (980 AM),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kwsw980.com/|title=KWSW 980 AM – The Songs You Love to Hear}}</ref> and [[KEKA-FM]] (101.5),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://keka101.com/|title=KEKA – Classic Country Hits}}</ref> owned and operated by Eureka Broadcasting Co. Inc. [[KFMI]], [[KRED (FM)|KRED]], [[KJNY]] and [[KATA (AM)|KATA]]. Lost Coast Communications owns and operates several stations broadcasting to Eureka: [[KSLG-FM]], [[KHUM]], [[KLGE]], and [[KWPT]]. Eureka also hosts [[KMUE]], the local repeater for [[Redway, California|Redway]]-based community radio station [[KMUD]]. On August 26, 2006, the Blue Ox Millworks launched [[KKDS-LP]], a [[low power FM]] station focused on youth and community issues. On November 3, 2008, a low-power [[part 15]] AM radio station named Old Glory Radio 1650 AM went on the air.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oldgloryradio.com/ |title=Old Glory Radio 1650 AM |access-date=December 22, 2008 |archive-date=December 16, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216030822/http://oldgloryradio.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is based in the Myrtletown neighborhood of Eureka, and it offers the area's only daily live local call-in program in the morning. [[KHSU]], the region's local public radio station, is broadcast from Cal Poly Humboldt in Arcata. A traveler's information station owned by the State of California, KMKE-LP, operates at 98.1&nbsp;MHz.<ref>[https://radio-locator.com/info/KMKE-FL KMKE-LPFM 98.1 MHz], radio-locator.com. Retrieved August 11, 2020.</ref>

Eureka's first television station was [[KIEM]], which signed on the air on October 25, 1953. Additional stations signed on in the years following that first telecast, beginning in 1958, including [[KVIQ-LD]] and [[KAEF-TV]].