Amarillo, Texas

==Media==
{{See also|List of newspapers in Texas|List of radio stations in Texas|List of television stations in Texas}}
[[File:Amarillo National Bank Plaza One - Amarillo Texas USA.jpg|thumb|upright|Amarillo National Bank Plaza One building in downtown Amarillo]]
The major local newspaper is the ''[[Amarillo Globe-News]]'', owned by [[GateHouse Media]], was a combination of three newspapers: ''Amarillo Daily News'', ''Amarillo Globe'', and ''Amarillo Times''. Other publications include a local monthly [[magazine]] dealing with city and regional issues in the Amarillo area called, ''Accent West'' and a daily online paper, ''The Amarillo Pioneer.''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://amarillopioneer.wix.com/the-amarillo-pioneer |title=The Amarillo Pioneer |publisher=Amarillopioneer.wix.com |access-date=2017-06-26}}</ref> The American Quarter Horse Association publishes two monthly publications, ''The American Quarter Horse Journal'' and ''The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal'', HISPANIC Newspaper El Mensajero owned by Dr. Ramon Godoy started printing in 1989.

Amarillo's major network [[television station|television]] affiliates are [[KACV-TV]] 2 ([[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]), [[KAMR]] 4 ([[NBC]]), [[KVII]] 7 ([[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], with [[The CW]] on DT2), [[KFDA-TV|KFDA]] 10 ([[CBS]]), [[KCIT]] 14 ([[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]), and [[KCPN-LD]] 33 ([[MyNetworkTV|MyNet]]). In the 2005–2006 television season, Amarillo is the 131st largest television [[Media market|market]] in the United States designated by [[Nielsen Media Research]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Nielsen Media Research |url=http://www.nielsenmedia.com/DMAs.html |title=210 Designated Market Areas |access-date=February 9, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060207012545/http://www.nielsenmedia.com/DMAs.html |archive-date=February 7, 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Amarillo is the 168th largest United States radio market in autumn 2005 designated by the [[radio station|radio]] audience research company, [[Arbitron]]. According to Arbitron the top 5 rated commercial radio stations in Fall 2012/Spring 2013 are:
# [[KXGL-FM]] − 100.9 FM- [[Classic Hits]]
# [[KGNC-FM]] − 97.9 FM- [[Country music|Country]]
# [[KGNC (AM)|KGNC]] − 710 AM- [[News/Talk]]/[[Sports Radio|Sports]]
# [[KXSS-FM]] − 96.9 FM- [[Contemporary Hit Radio|Top 40/CHR]]
# [[KQIZ-FM]] − 93.1 FM- [[Rhythmic Contemporary|Rhythmic Top 40/CHR]]
The regional public radio network, High Plains Public Radio, operates KJJP-FM 105.7. Other notable radio stations around the area include the [[Campus radio|college stations]] [[KACV-FM]] 89.9 (Amarillo College), [[Active Rock]] [[KZRK-FM]] (107.9), and [[KWTS-FM]] 91.1 (West Texas A&M University) in nearby Canyon.

===Outside media attention===
The city gained national media attention in 1998 when local cattlemen unsuccessfully sued television talk show host [[Oprah Winfrey]] for comments made on [[The Oprah Winfrey Show|her show]] connecting American beef to [[bovine spongiform encephalopathy|mad cow disease]], costing them and their industry millions of dollars.<ref>{{cite news|author=Frankel, Daniel |title=Ranchers Say Oprah Created Lynch Mob Mentality |date=January 21, 1998 |work=[[E!|E! News]] |url=http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,2414,00.html |access-date=January 25, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041205144423/http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0%2C1%2C2414%2C00.html |archive-date=December 5, 2004}}</ref> In order to attend the trial in Amarillo, she temporarily relocated her show to the Amarillo Little Theatre for nearly a year. During the trial, Winfrey hired Dallas-based jury consultant [[Phil McGraw]] to aid her attorneys on selecting and analyzing the members of the jury.<ref>{{cite news|author=Donald, Mark |title=Analyze this |date=April 13, 2000 |work=[[Dallas Observer]] |url=http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2000-04-13/news/feature.html |access-date=January 25, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050415135131/http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2000-04-13/news/feature.html |archive-date=April 15, 2005}}</ref> McGraw would later become a regular guest on Winfrey's television show and subsequently started his own talk show, ''[[Dr. Phil (TV series)|Dr. Phil]]'', in 2002. Another notable trial in Amarillo includes the [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]]-area murder case of [[T. Cullen Davis]], which involved one of the richest men in the United States, his former wife, and her daughter and boyfriend. The trial was moved from Fort Worth to Amarillo in 1977 on a change of venue.<ref>{{cite web |author= [[Court TV]]'s Crime Library |url= http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/not_guilty/t_cullen_davis/7.html |title= T. Cullen Davis: The Best Justice Money Can Buy |access-date= May 25, 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060516151611/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/not_guilty/t_cullen_davis/7.html |archive-date= May 16, 2006 |url-status= dead }}</ref> The 1997 murder of [[Brian Deneke]] and subsequent trial also brought national attention because it highlighted social divisions in the community that mirrored those in America as a whole. The defendant in the trial was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and received a light sentence.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Colloff |first1=Pamela |title=The Outsiders |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-outsiders/ |access-date=15 June 2019 |issue=November 1999 |magazine=Texas Monthly}}</ref> The movie [[Bomb City]] is based on the events surrounding Deneke's murder. The small town of [[Tulia, Texas]], approximately {{convert|47|mi|0}} south from Amarillo, was the scene of a controversial drug sting in 1999. Local civil rights attorney Jeff Blackburn took up the case of the Tulia defendants, which became a ''[[cause célèbre]]'' and resulted in the exoneration and pardon of the defendants.<ref>Nate Blakeslee. Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town. New York: PublicAffairs. {{ISBN|1-58648-454-0}}</ref> A federal lawsuit directed at the officials responsible for the sting operation was held in Amarillo. In the final settlement, the City of Amarillo agreed to pay $5&nbsp;million in damages to the former Tulia defendants; disband the Panhandle Regional Narcotics Task Force that it set up to oversee the sting operation; and require early retirement for two Amarillo Police Department officers who were responsible for supervising the sting's sole undercover agent.<ref>{{cite web |author= Court TV's Crime Library |url= http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/tom_coleman/6.html |title= The Tulia Sting |access-date= July 30, 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061022120153/http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/tom_coleman/6.html |archive-date= October 22, 2006 |url-status= dead |df= mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=[[NAACP]] Legal Defense and Educational Fund |url=http://www.naacpldf.org/content.aspx?article=277 |title=Bad Times In Tulia, TX |access-date=July 30, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213202445/http://www.naacpldf.org/content.aspx?article=277 |archive-date=February 13, 2006}}</ref>

On May 5, 2020, Amarillo ranked 13th in the nation for Highest Average Daily Growth Rate of COVID-19 cases by the New York Times.<ref>{{cite news|author=The New York Times |title= Five Ways to Follow the Coronavirus Outbreak for Any Metro Area in the U.S.|date=May 5, 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/upshot/five-ways-to-monitor-coronavirus-outbreak-us.html|access-date=May 7, 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505220740/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/upshot/five-ways-to-monitor-coronavirus-outbreak-us.html |archive-date=May 5, 2020}}</ref>

===In popular culture===
[[File:Amarillo-Texas-Starry-Night-Horse-Dec2005.jpg|thumb|The American Quarter Horse Association and Center City of Amarillo sponsors an ongoing public art project that consists of decorated horse statues located in front of several Amarillo businesses.]]
Amarillo has been mentioned in popular music such as George Strait's "[[Amarillo by Morning (song)|Amarillo by Morning]]" by Paul Fraser and Terry Stafford (Stafford did his original version before Strait did his own cover),[[Gorillaz]] [[Amarillo (Gorillaz song)|Amarillo]], [[Mark Chesnutt]]'s [[Blame It on Texas]], [[Nat King Cole]]'s "[[(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66]]", [[Bob Dylan]]'s "[[Brownsville Girl]]" (Amarillo was referred to as the "land of the living dead"), [[Rob Zombie]]'s "Two Lane Blacktop", "[[Amarillo Sky (song)|Amarillo Sky]]" by [[Jason Aldean]], "A Quick Death In Texas" by [[Clutch (band)|Clutch]], [[Marty Robbin's]] "[[Running Gun]]", and the song "[[Is This the Way to Amarillo]]" written by [[Neil Sedaka]] and [[Howard Greenfield]], recorded famously by Yorkshireman [[Tony Christie]] and Sedaka, and revived in the UK by comedian [[Peter Kay]] through performances in the comedy series ''[[Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights]]'' and in a charity performance for [[Comic Relief (charity)|Comic Relief]]. Christie's version, which only managed to reach 18 when originally released in 1971, made it to the number 1 spot in the [[UK Singles Chart]] in 2005 for 7 weeks.<ref>{{cite news |title=Amarillo tops 2005 single sales |date= January 2, 2006|work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4575226.stm|access-date= January 25, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Tony Christie tops singles chart |date= March 20, 2005|work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4366721.stm|access-date= January 25, 2007}}</ref>

The Amarillo Film Commission is a division of the Amarillo Convention and Visitor Council that was created to provide film crews with locations and other assistance when filming in Amarillo.<ref>{{cite web |author= Amarillo Convention and Visitor Council |url= http://www.amarillofilm.org/ |title= Amarillo CVC Film Commission |access-date= February 9, 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060313003228/http://www.amarillofilm.org/ |archive-date= March 13, 2006 |url-status= live}}</ref> Amarillo was the setting for many motion pictures, including ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'', ''Switchback'' 1997, and ''The Plutonium Circus'', the 1995 [[South by Southwest|South by Southwest Film Festival]] winner for best documentary feature. Amarillo was the title of the [[Amarillo (Better Call Saul)|third episode of the second season]] of [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]]'s drama ''[[Better Call Saul]]'', a spin-off of the hit drama ''[[Breaking Bad]]''. The city played a part in the plot of the episode, as it was a location used by series protagonist [[Saul Goodman|Jimmy McGill]] to solicit clients.<ref>{{cite web|title=Amarillo|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4462676/|website=IMDB|date=February 29, 2016}}</ref>