Editing Santa Barbara, California (section)

==Media==
===Newspapers===
The [[Santa Barbara Independent]] is Santa Barbara's only adjudicated, general circulation newspaper. It publishes a print edition weekly on Thursdays and claims an audited print readership of 68,000.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Advertise |url=https://www.independent.com/advertise/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=The Santa Barbara Independent |language=en-US}}</ref> It also publishes as an online daily.

The ''[[Santa Barbara News-Press]],'' a historic former daily which traced its founding to 1868, filed for bankruptcy on July 21, 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Yamamura |first=Jean |date=2023-07-23 |title='Santa Barbara News-Press' Files for Bankruptcy |url=https://www.independent.com/2023/07/23/santa-barbara-news-press-files-for-bankruptcy/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=The Santa Barbara Independent |language=en-US}}</ref> The closure followed nearly two decades of internal turmoil and steeply declining local readership precipitated by the 2006 "[[Santa Barbara News-Press controversy|News-Press Mess]]" under the ownership of [[Wendy McCaw]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Welsh |first=Nick |date=2023-08-17 |title=Death of a Daily |url=https://www.independent.com/2023/08/16/death-of-a-daily/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=The Santa Barbara Independent |language=en-US}}</ref> The controversy received national attention and became the subject of the 2008 documentary, "Citizen McCaw".<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Farhi |first1=Paul |last2=Lamothe |first2=Dan |last3=Birnbaum |first3=Michael |last4=Fowler |first4=Geoffrey A. |last5=Frankel |first5=Todd |last6=Natanson |first6=Hannah |last7=Bump |first7=Philip |last8=Voght |first8=Kara |date=2023-08-03 |title=She paid a fortune for her town's paper. Years of turmoil followed. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/03/wendy-mccaw-santa-barbara-news-press/ |access-date=2025-03-24 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Tyler |first=Sam |title=Citizen McCaw |date=2009-04-13 |type=Documentary |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1398971/ |access-date=2025-03-24 |others=Travis Armstrong, Ann Louise Bardach, Barney Brantingham |publisher=SB Docs}}</ref> As of January, 2025 a nonprofit overseen by the [[Arizona State University]] Media Enterprise had acquired rights to the News-Press and announced intention to revive the paper.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Yamamura |first=Jean |date=2025-01-23 |title=The 'Santa Barbara News-Press' to Rise from the Grave |url=https://www.independent.com/2025/01/23/the-santa-barbara-news-press-to-rise-from-the-grave/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=The Santa Barbara Independent |language=en-US}}</ref>

Santa Barbara is also served by two online-only news outlets: 
* ''[[Edhat]]'', a privately owned community news site founded in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Edhat About — Santa Barbara's Community Hub |url=https://www.edhat.com/about-edhat/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=edhat |language=en-US}}</ref>
* ''[[Noozhawk]]'', an online news site founded in 2007

In addition, the business journal ''[[Pacific Coast Business Times]]'', covers Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-08-24 |title=About the Pacific Coast Business Times {{!}} Pacific Coast Business Times |url=https://www.pacbiztimes.com/contact-us/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=www.pacbiztimes.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Television ===
The following TV stations broadcast in Santa Barbara Market Area:
* [[KEYT-TV|KEYT]] 3, an [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]/[[Columbia Broadcasting System|CBS]]/[[MyNetworkTV|MNTV]] television affiliate;
* [[KSBY|K10PV-D]] 10, an [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]] television affiliate; repeater of [[KSBY]] 6, broadcast from [[San Luis Obispo, California|San Luis Obispo]]
* [[KCOY]] 12 a [[Telemundo]] television affiliate; broadcast from [[Santa Maria, California|Santa Maria]]
* [[KKFX-CD|KSBB-CD]] 17 a [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]] television affiliate; license to Santa Barbara studios broadcast from [[KCOY]] in Santa Maria. Repeater of [[KKFX-CD|KKFX]] 24 [[San Luis Obispo, California|San Luis Obispo]]. Also seen on cable channel 11.  
* [[KCET|K26FT-D]] 26, a repeater for the secondary [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] [[Public Broadcasting System|PBS]] member station [[KCET]] 
* [[KTAS]] 33, a [[TeleXitos]] affiliate; broadcast from [[San Luis Obispo, California|San Luis Obispo]]
* [[KPMR]] 38, a [[Univision]] affiliate
* [[KOCE-TV|KBAB-LD]] 50, a rebroadcast of the primary [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] [[Public Broadcasting System|PBS]] member station [[KOCE-TV|KOCE]] (licensed to [[Huntington Beach, California|Huntington Beach]])
* TV Santa Barbara; Voice-17 ([[Public-access television]]) and Culture-71 Arts & Education (formerly owned by [[Cox Communications]]).

===Radio===
* [[KTMS]] (990 AM) News/Talk
* [[KZER]] (1250 AM) [[Regional Mexican]]
* [[KZSB]] (1290 AM) News/Talk
* [[KCLU (AM)|KCLU]] (1340 AM) [[NPR]]"NPR for the California Coast" Rebroadcast of [[KCLU-FM]] [[Thousand Oaks, California|Thousand Oaks]]
* [[KOSJ]] (1490 AM) [[Rhythmic Oldies]]
* [[KDRW]] (88.7 FM) [[NPR]] Rebroadcast [[KCRW]] 89.9 [[Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica]]
* [[KCBX|KSBX]] (89.5 FM) [[NPR]] Rebroadcast [[KCBX]] 90.1 FM [[San Luis Obispo, California|San Luis Obispo]]
* [[KMRO]] (90.3 FM) [[Spanish language|Spanish]] [[Christian radio|Christian]] [[Radio Nueva Vida]]
* [[KCSB]] (91.9 FM) (Freeform) [[University of California at Santa Barbara|UCSB]]
* [[KJEE]] (92.9 FM)[[Alternative rock|Alternative]]
* [[KDB (FM)|KDB]] (93.7 FM)[[Classical Music|Classical]] (Rebroadcast of [[KUSC]] 91.5 FM [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]])
* [[KSPE]] (94.5 FM) [[Regional Mexican]]
* [[KLOS]] (95.5 FM) [[Classic Rock]] broadcasting from [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]]
* [[KLSB]] (97.5 FM) [[Contemporary Christian Music|Contemporary Christian]] [[K-LOVE]]
* [[KDAR]] (98.3 FM) [[Christian radio|Christian]] broadcasting from [[Oxnard, California|Oxnard]]
* [[KTYD]] (99.9 FM) [[Classic rock|Classic Rock]]
* [[KHAY]] (100.7 FM) [[Country music|Country]] broadcasting from [[Ventura, California|Ventura]]
* [[KSBL]] (101.7 FM)[[Adult Contemporary]] which markets itself as KLITE and is owned by Rincon Broadcasting.
* [[KRUZ (FM)|KRUZ]] (103.3 FM) [[Classic Hits]], formerly [[Rhythmic contemporary|CHR-Rhythmic]] station KVYB. It broadcasts from La Cumbre Peak at an altitude of {{convert|3000|ft|m}} and can be heard in San Diego despite a distance of {{convert|200|mi|km}} because it propagates across the ocean. 
* [[KRAZ]] (105.9 FM) [[Country music|Country]]
* [[KIST-FM|KIST]] (107.7 FM) [[Regional Mexican]]

Some Los Angeles radio stations can be heard, although somewhat faintly due to the {{convert|85|mi|km|-1|adj=on}} distance. Santa Monica-based [[NPR]] radio station [[KCRW]] can be heard in Santa Barbara at 106.9&nbsp;MHz, and San Luis Obispo-based NPR station [[KCBX]] at 89.5 FM and 90.9 FM. The [[California Lutheran University]]-operated NPR station KCLU (102.3 FM, 1340 AM), based in [[Thousand Oaks, California|Thousand Oaks]] in [[Ventura County, California|Ventura County]], also serves Santa Barbara and has reporters covering the city. The only non-commercial radio station based in Santa Barbara is [[KCSB-FM]] (91.9 FM), owned by the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]], which uses it as part of its educational mission.