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==Media== {{see also|List of newspapers in North Carolina|List of radio stations in North Carolina|List of television stations in North Carolina}} Asheville is in the "Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson" television [[media market|DMA]] and the "Asheville" radio [[List of United States radio markets|ADI]] for the city's [[Template:Asheville Radio|radio stations]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arbitron.com/radio_stations/mm001050.asp |title=Market Ranks |work=arbitron.com |access-date=September 2, 2007 |archive-date=July 10, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070710153242/http://www.arbitron.com/Radio_Stations/mm001050.asp |url-status=live}}</ref> The primary television station in Asheville is [[WLOS]] Channel 13, an affiliate of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] with [[MyNetworkTV]] on its second digital subchannel. Studios for WLOS are in Biltmore Park and a transmitter for the station is on [[Mount Pisgah (mountain in North Carolina)|Mount Pisgah]] as of 2024. Other stations licensed to Asheville include [[WUNF]], a [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] ([[UNC-TV]]) member station on Channel 33 and [[The CW|CW]] owned-and-operated station [[WYCW]] on Channel 62. Asheville is also served by the [[Upstate South Carolina]] stations of [[WYFF]] Channel 4 ([[NBC]]), [[WSPA-TV]] Channel 7 ([[CBS]]), [[WHNS-TV]] Channel 21 ([[Fox Television Network|FOX]]), [[WMYA]] Channel 40 ([[Dabl]]) and W41BQ Channel 41 ([[3ABN]]). PBS member stations from the Upstate of South Carolina (via [[South Carolina Educational Television]]) are generally not carried on cable systems in the North Carolina portion of the DMA, though are accessible via an HD antenna in some areas. The ''[[Asheville Citizen-Times]]'' is Asheville's daily newspaper, which covers most of [[Western North Carolina]]. The ''[[Mountain Xpress]]'' is the largest weekly in the area, covering arts and politics in the region. The ''[[Asheville Daily Planet]]'' is a monthly paper. ''Asheville Watchdog'' is an online-only publication. The ''[[Biltmore Beacon]]'' is a weekly newspaper specifically written to be of interest to residents and businesses in the various Biltmore communities including [[Biltmore Forest]], [[Biltmore Park]], Biltmore Lake, and [[Biltmore Village]]. WCQS: [[Blue Ridge Public Radio]] is Asheville's public radio station. It airs [[National Public Radio]] news and other programs, classical and jazz music. WYQS ([[BPR News]]) is the sister station to WCQS, offering local news and NPR programming. Friends of Community Radio created [[WSFM-LP]], a volunteer-based, grassroots community radio station. The station is licensed under the "Free Form" format. There are also a variety of broadcasts dedicated to poetry, interviews, selected topics, children's radio, and comedy. The staff have remote broadcast many local concerts including [[Monotonix]] from Israel, [[JEFF the Brotherhood]] from Nashville, [[Screaming Females]] from New Jersey, and local acts.
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