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Minneapolis–Saint Paul, also known as the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, in the state of Minnesota, has two major general-interest newspapers. The region is currently ranked as the 15th largest television market in the United States.[1] The market officially includes 59 counties of Minnesota and Wisconsin, and extends far to the north and west. The radio market in the Twin Cities is estimated to be slightly smaller, ranked 16th in the nation.[2]

Print

The two major general-interest newspapers are the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and the Saint Paul Pioneer Press. Mpls.St.Paul Magazine[3] covers arts and culture, shops, and the dining scene in the Twin Cities. The Minnesota Daily serves the University of Minnesota‘s Twin Cities campus and surrounding neighborhoods. The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, One Nation News[4] and the Finance and Commerce business daily are published in Minneapolis, as is the Web-based MinnPost.com.

A number of other weekly and monthly publications (most of which are fully supported by advertising) are also available. The most prominent of these is Village Voice Media‘s City Pages, the alternative weekly. (2002 newcomer The Rake offered some competition in the form of a free monthly, but ceased publication in 2008.[5]) Pulse of the Twin Cities is another weekly which has less advertising and more coverage of local music and activism. La Matraca News is a Spanish-language weekly print and online publication.

There are also numerous weekly student publications at area colleges, including the University of Minnesota’s The Wake[6] student magazine, Macalester College‘s The Mac Weekly, and St. Thomas‘ TommieMedia.com,[7] which replaced student newspaper The Aquin that was shuttered in 2009.[8]

Minneapolis community newspapers include the sister publications Downtown Journal, formerly Skyway News, and Southwest Journal, which cover downtown and southwest Minneapolis, respectively, as well as numerous neighborhood papers such as the North News, Seward Profile, Southside Pride, and Whittier Globe.

Only one weekly newspaper is devoted to neighborhood news in either city: St. Paul’s East Side Review. Saint Paul also has a monthly, Highland Villager, and a bi-monthly neighborhood newspaper for Frogtown, Greening Frogtown.[9]

Instead of neighborhood or general-interest news, some periodicals are topical, such as those covering the Minnesota music scene. Others are audience-specific, such as Lavender Magazine for the state’s gay community. The Minnesota Women’s Press,[10] one of the few feminist newspapers in the country, serves the local feminist community. Another periodical of note is the Asian American Press.[11]

List of newspapers and magazines

See also: List of newspapers in Minnesota

The following is a list of print and online publications in the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area:

Daily

Weekly

College

Online

Other

  • Bring Me The News
  • CCX Media
  • DUNation
  • Game Informer
  • Minnesota Monthly
  • Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
  • Twin Cities Arts Reader

Neighborhood press

In Minneapolis:

  • Bryn Mawr Bugle, published monthly
  • Camden Community News, published monthly
  • Longfellow Nokomis Messenger, published monthly
  • North News, published monthly
  • Northeast Beat, online only
  • Northeaster, published bimonthly
  • Seward Profile, published monthly
  • Southside Pride, published monthly
  • Whittier Globe, published monthly

In St. Paul:

  • East Side Review, published weekly
  • Midway-Como-North End Monitor, published monthly
  • Park Bugle, published monthly
  • Villager, published twice-monthly
  • West Seventh Community Reporter, published monthly

Special interest

Radio

Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul

Most of the major TV and radio transmitters are located in Shoreview, Minnesota, and backup facilities for some are maintained atop the IDS Center in downtown Minneapolis (though a few low-power broadcasters use the IDS as their primary transmitter location).

List of radio stations

AM stations

FM stations

Low-power FM stations and translators

Television

tower and administrative offices
KSTP-TV

Two major television stations in the Twin Cities have main studios located in downtown Minneapolis. WCCO-TV, a CBS owned-and-operated station, broadcasts from studios along Nicollet Mall, and WUCW, the local CW affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, broadcasts from the Pence Automobile Company Building. Four other stations maintain studios in St. Paul. Twin Cities Public Television operates both of the Twin Cities’ PBS member stations, KTCA and KTCI, and ABC affiliate KSTP-TV and independent station KSTC-TV are owned by Hubbard Broadcasting.

Three other stations serve the Twin Cities from studios in suburban areas. Fox O&O KMSP-TV and MyNetworkTV O&O WFTC are co-owned by Fox Television Stations, with studios located in Eden Prairie. KARE is the NBC affiliate in the Twin Cities, owned by Tegna and based in Golden Valley.

For much of the last two decades, KARE had the most popular evening newscasts. Since around 2010, however, WCCO has become the most watched station in the market in nearly all time slots. On the other end, KSTP has struggled to maintain ratings on its news programs. KMSP has had a 9 p.m. newscast since at least the early 1990s when it was a UPN affiliate.

downtown on the Nicollet Mall
WCCO-TV satellite dishes Minneapolis

KSTP claims to have been the first station in the country to run a regular nightly newscast. It is the oldest station in the state to still be operating, having first gone on the air in 1948. TV broadcasts first occurred more than a decade earlier during the 1930s when engineers for radio station WDGY (now KFAN) experimented with a mechanical television system. Mechanical TV quickly lost favor, and the station’s owner decided to let the license expire in 1938.

Communities in the region have their own Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV channels. One channel, the Metro Cable Network, is available on channel 6 on cable systems across the seven-county region. Minneapolis Telecommunications Network (MTN)[12] has three public-access television cable TV channels and Saint Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN)[13] has two.

KARE television broadcast, Minnesota State Fair

Area residents of the right age look back fondly on many of the locally produced shows that were on the air for about two decades, from the early days of TV in Minnesota up until the 1970s. WCCO, KSTP, KMSP, and WTCN (now KARE) all had children’s shows, though there were a few other notable shows targeting an older audience.

Several television programs originating in the Twin Cities have been aired nationally on terrestrial and cable TV networks. KTCA created the science program Newton’s Apple and distributes a children’s program today. A few unusual comedic shows also originated in the area. In the 1980s, KTMA (now WUCW) created a number of low-budget shows, including the cult classic Mystery Science Theater 3000 (which later aired on The Comedy Channel/Comedy Central from 1989 to 1996 and the Sci-Fi Channel from 1997 to 2004). The short-lived Let’s Bowl (which aired on Comedy Central) started on KARE, and the PBS series Mental Engineering originated on the St. Paul public-access television network.

Two episodes of Route 66 were made in Minneapolis in the 1960s. The 1970s CBS situation comedy set in Minneapolis, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, won three Golden Globes[14] and 29 Emmy Awards.[15] The show’s opening sequences were filmed in the city.[16]

List of television stations

This is a list of television stations in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area.[17]

Full-power

Low-power

Cable

Movies

Movies filmed in Minneapolis include Airport (1970),[18] The Heartbreak Kid (1972),[19] Slaughterhouse-Five (1972),[20] Ice Castles (1978),[21] Foolin’ Around (1980),[22] Take This Job and Shove It (1981),[23] Purple Rain (1984),[24] That Was Then, This Is Now (1985),[25] The Mighty Ducks (1992),[26] Untamed Heart (1993),[27] Little Big League (1994),[28] Beautiful Girls (1996),[29] Jingle All the Way (1996),[30] Fargo (1996),[31] and Young Adult (2011).[32]

References

  1. ^ “Local Television Market Universe Estimates” (PDF). Nielsen. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ “Market Survey Schedule and Population Rankings” (PDF). Nielsen Audio. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
  3. ^ Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
  4. ^ One Nation News
  5. ^ “About Us”. Rake Magazine. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  6. ^ The Wake
  7. ^ TommieMedia.com
  8. ^ Kitzmann, Shane (January 6, 2010). “Still Miss The Aquin?”. University of Minnesota Newsroom. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  9. ^ Greening Frogtown
  10. ^ The Minnesota Women’s Press
  11. ^ “Asian American Press”. aapress.com.
  12. ^ “Minneapolis: The Network”. mtn.org.
  13. ^ “Homepage + Playlists”. www.spnn.org.
  14. ^ “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”. HFPA. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  15. ^ “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”. Television Academy. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  16. ^ “5 Minneapolis Locations Made Famous by Mary Tyler Moore”. Meet Minneapolis. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
  17. ^ “Digital TV Market Listings: Minneapolis, Minnesota”. RabbitEars. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
  18. ^ Jones, Will (December 19, 1968). “After Last Night”. Minneapolis Tribune. p. 28. Retrieved January 17, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ “Movie cameras roll again in Cities”. Minneapolis Tribune. March 8, 1972. p. 2B. Retrieved January 17, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ “Watch out for that driver”. Picture Magazine. Minneapolis Tribune. May 9, 1971. pp. 22–27. Retrieved January 17, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ Schneck, Joshua J. (March 15, 1978). “Film makers on thin ice, so they hurry”. Minneapolis Star. p. 1B. Retrieved January 17, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ Ebert, Roger (April 22, 1980). “Foolin’ Around”. RogerEbert.com. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  23. ^ Jones, Will (November 9, 1980). “After Last Night”. TV Week. Minneapolis Tribune. pp. 3, 34. Retrieved January 17, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ “Minneapolis’ Starring Role In ‘Purple Rain’ (1984)”. NPR.org. NPR. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  25. ^ “‘That Was Then … This Is Now’“. Hennepin County Public Library. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  26. ^ “5 FILMS (AND 1 TV SHOW) SHOT IN MINNEAPOLIS PARKS”. mplsparksfoundation.org. February 4, 2019. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  27. ^ “Horst bakes Plans”. Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  28. ^ Holden, Stephen (June 29, 1994). “FILM REVIEW; When a 12-Year-Old Fan Inherits a Baseball Team”. New York Times. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  29. ^ “Beautiful Girls”. bryantlakebowl.com. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  30. ^ “Can you spot the Twin Cities locations in ‘Jingle All the Way’?”. Pioneer Press. December 8, 2015. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  31. ^ “20 years ago, ‘Fargo’ put Minnesota on the map, doncha know”. Pioneer Press. March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  32. ^ “Random Question: What movie(s) have been filmed in your area?”. flixchatter.net. October 6, 2010. Retrieved January 1, 2021.