Memphis, Tennessee

== Media ==
{{See also|List of newspapers in Tennessee|List of radio stations in Tennessee|List of television stations in Tennessee}}

=== Newspapers ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title
! Locale
! Year est.
! Frequency
! Publisher/parent company
|-
| ''[[The Commercial Appeal]]''<ref name=Nation1909>{{cite book |title=The South in the Building of the Nation |publisher= Southern Historical Publication Society |location=Richmond, VA |year= 1909 |chapter= Southern Press |pages=402–436 |chapter-url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/yale.39002004114386?urlappend=%3Bseq=522 |quote=Date of establishment of leading Southern newspapers |volume=7 |hdl= 2027/yale.39002004114386?urlappend=%3Bseq=522 }}</ref>
| Memphis<ref name=TPA>{{cite web |url= http://www.tnpress.com/membership/tndata/memsearchform.asp |title= Members |publisher= Tennessee Press Association |location= Knoxville |access-date= March 21, 2017 |archive-date= March 21, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170321165930/http://www.tnpress.com/membership/tndata/memsearchform.asp |url-status= dead }}</ref>
| 1840<ref>{{cite book|title=Tennessee: A Guide to the State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ei9wf5zqk1EC&dq=Mayes-Hutton+House&pg=PA15|year=1939|publisher=Federal Writers Program|page=154| isbn=9781623760410 }}</ref>
| Daily
| [[Gannett Company]]<ref name=Gannett>{{citation |access-date=March 27, 2017|url= http://www.gannett.com/brands/ |author=Gannett Co., Inc. |location=McLean, Virginia |title= Our Brands: Tennessee }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Memphis Daily News]]''
| rowspan="3" | Memphis
| 1886
| Weekly or bi-weekly
| <!--PUBLISHER-->
|-
| ''[[Memphis Flyer]]''
| 1989
| rowspan="2" | Weekly
| Contemporary Media, Inc.
|-
| ''[[Memphis Tri-State Defender]]''
| 1951<ref name=LOC>{{cite web |location= Washington DC |work= [[Chronicling America]] |publisher= Library of Congress |title= US Newspaper Directory: Tennessee |url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/ |access-date= March 21, 2017 }}</ref>
|Best Media Properties, Inc.
|-
|}

=== Television ===
[[Nielsen Media Research]] currently defines Memphis and its surrounding metropolitan area as the 51st largest American media market.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mediatracks.com/resources/nielsen-dma-rankings-2019/|title=Nielsen DMA Rankings 2019|publisher=MediaTracks Communications|access-date=June 28, 2019}}</ref> Despite Memphis proper's large size, Memphis has always been a medium-sized market; the nearby suburban and rural areas are not much larger than the city itself.

Major broadcast television affiliate stations in the Memphis area include, but are not limited to:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Channel
!Call sign
!Network
!Owner
!Subchannels
|-
|3
|[[WREG-TV|WREG]]
|[[CBS]]
|[[Nexstar Media Group|Nexstar]]
|Newschannel 3 Anytime on 3.2, [[Antenna TV]] on 3.3
|-
|5
|[[WMC-TV|WMC]]
|[[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]]
|[[Gray Television]]
|[[Bounce TV]] on 5.2, [[Circle (TV network)|Circle]] on 5.3, [[Grit (TV network)|Grit]] on 5.4, [[Independent station|WMC Plus]] on 5.5
|-
|10
|[[WKNO (TV)|WKNO]]
|[[PBS]]
|Mid South Public Communications Foundation
| WKNO-2 on 10.2, [[PBS Kids]] on 10.3
|-
|13
|[[WHBQ-TV|WHBQ]]
|[[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]
|[[INSP (TV network)|Imagicomm Communications]]
|[[Heroes & Icons]] on 13.2, [[Ion Mystery]] on 13.3
|-
|23
|[[WTWV]]
|[[Independent station|Independent]] Religious
|Christian Worldview Broadcasting Corporation
|
|-
|24
|[[WATN-TV|WATN]]
|[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Tegna Inc.]]
|[[Laff (TV network)|Laff]] on 24.2, [[Cozi TV]] on 24.3
|-
|30
|[[WLMT-TV|WLMT]]
|[[The CW]]
| MeTV on 30.2, Start TV on 30.3
|-
|34
|[[WWTW]]
|[[Tri-State Christian Television|TCT]]
||[[Tri-State Christian Television]]
|
|-
|40
|[[WBUY-TV|WBUY]]
|[[Trinity Broadcasting Network|TBN]]
|[[Trinity Broadcasting Network]]
|[[Hillsong Channel]] on 40.2, [[Smile (TV network)|Smile]] on 40.3, [[Enlace]] on 40.4, [[Positiv]] on 40.5
|-
|50
|[[WPXX-TV|WPXX]]
|[[Ion Television|ION]]
|Inyo Broadcast Holdings
|[[Court TV Mystery]] on 50.2, [[Court TV]] on 50.3, [[Defy TV]] on 50.4, [[TrueReal]] on 50.5, [[Home Shopping Network|HSN]] on 50.6
|-
|}

=== Radio ===
Terrestrial broadcast radio stations in the Memphis area include, but are not limited to:

=== FM stations ===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Call sign !! Frequency !! City of license<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/fmq.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825071957/http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/fmq.html|url-status=dead|title=FM Query – FM Radio Technical Information – Audio Division (FCC) USA<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=August 25, 2009}}</ref>!! Owner!! Slogan !! Format<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.arbitron.com/radio_stations/station_information.htm|title=Station Information on File at Nielsen (SIP)|website=www.arbitron.com}}</ref>
|-
|[[WQOX]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>88.5 FM || rowspan="5" | Memphis|| Shelby County Schools (Grades K-12)||88.5 the Voice of SCS  || [[Urban adult contemporary]]
|-
|[[WYPL]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>89.3 FM || Memphis Public Library & Information Center||Memphis Public Library Reading Radio || [[Radio reading service]]
|-
|[[WEVL]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>89.9 FM || Southern Communication Volunteers, Inc.||Volunteer, Member Supported Radio ||[[Freeform radio|Freeform]]
|-
|[[WKNO-FM|WKNO]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>91.1 FM || Mid-South Public Communications Foundation|| WKNO NPR For the Mid South ||Public radio/[[Classical music|Classical]]
|-
|[[WYXR]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>91.7 FM|| Crosstown Radio Partnership, Inc. ||  || Freeform
|-
|[[WMFS-FM|WMFS]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>92.9 FM|| [[Bartlett, Tennessee|Bartlett]]|| [[Audacy, Inc.]] ||[[ESPN Radio]]||[[Sports radio|Sports]]
|-
|[[WMLE]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>94.1 FM||[[Germantown, Tennessee|Germantown]]||[[Educational Media Foundation]]||[[K-Love]]||[[Contemporary Christian]]
|-
|[[WHAL-FM|WHAL]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>95.7 FM||[[Horn Lake, Mississippi|Hornlake, Mississippi]]|| rowspan="2" |[[iHeartMedia, Inc.]] ||Hallelujah|| [[Urban contemporary gospel|Urban gospel]]
|-
|[[WHRK]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>97.1 FM||Memphis ||K97.1 || [[Hip hop music|Hip hop]]
|-
|[[WXMX]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>98.1 FM||[[Millington, Tennessee|Millington]]|| rowspan="2" |[[Cumulus Media]] ||The Max ||Rock
|-
|[[WKIM]]  || <span style="display:none">0</span>98.9 FM||[[Munford, Tennessee|Munford]]|| The Bridge|| [[Adult contemporary music|Adult contemporary]]
|-
|[[WLFP (FM)|WLFP]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>99.7 FM|| Memphis||[[Audacy, Inc.]]||The Wolf||[[Country radio|Country]]
|-
|[[KJMS]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>101.1 FM||[[Olive Branch, Mississippi]]|| rowspan="3" |[[iHeartMedia, Inc.]] ||V101|| Urban adult contemporary
|-
|[[KWNW]] ||<span style="display:none">0</span> 101.9 FM||[[Crawfordsville, Arkansas]]||Kiss-FM|| [[Contemporary hit radio|Top 40]]
|-
|[[WEGR]] || <span style="display:none">0</span> 102.7 FM|| [[Arlington, Tennessee|Arlington]]||Rock 102.7|| [[Classic rock]]
|-
|[[WRBO]] || <span style="display:none">0</span> 103.5 FM||[[Como, Mississippi]]||[[Cumulus Media]] ||103.5 WBRO ||Urban adult contemporary
|-
|[[WRVR]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>104.5 FM|| rowspan="2" |Memphis||[[Audacy, Inc.]] ||The River ||Adult contemporary
|-
|[[WGKX]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>105.9 FM||[[Cumulus Media]] ||KIX 106 ||Country
|-
|[[KXHT]] ||<span style="display:none">0</span>107.1 FM||[[Marion, Arkansas]]|| rowspan="2" |Flinn Broadcasting Corporation ||Hot|| Hip Hop
|-
|[[WHBQ-FM|WHBQ]] ||<span style="display:none">0</span>107.5 FM||Germantown||107.5 WHBQ||Classic Hits
|-
|}

=== AM stations ===

{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Call sign !! Frequency !! City of license<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/amq.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825063614/http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/amq.html|url-status=dead|title=AM Query – AM Radio Technical Information – Audio Division (FCC) USA<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=August 25, 2009}}</ref>!! Owner !! Format<ref name="auto1" />
|-
|[[WHBQ (AM)|WHBQ]] || <span style="display:none">00</span>560 AM || rowspan="4" | Memphis || Flinn Broadcasting Corporation|| Sports
|-
|[[WREC]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>600 AM || [[iHeartMedia]] ||[[Talk radio]]
|-
|[[WCRV]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>640 AM ||[[Bott Radio Network]]||[[Christian radio]]
|-
|[[WMFS (AM)|WMFS]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>680 AM ||[[Audacy, Inc.]]|| rowspan="3" |Sports
|-
|[[KQPN]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>730 AM || [[West Memphis, Arkansas]]||F.W. Robbert Broadcasting
|-
|[[WMC (AM)|WMC]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>790 AM || rowspan="5" |Memphis  ||[[Audacy, Inc.]]
|-
|[[WUMY (AM)|WUMY]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>830 AM || GMF-Christian Media I, LLC.||Spanish Christian
|-
|[[KWAM]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>990 AM || Starnes Media Group || [[Talk radio|Talk]]
|-
|[[WGSF (AM)|WGSF]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>1030 AM ||Flinn Broadcasting Corporation || [[Regional Mexican]]
|-
|[[WDIA]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>1070 AM ||[[iHeartMedia]]||[[Urban Oldies|Urban oldies]]
|-
|[[WGUE (AM)|WGUE]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>1180 AM || [[Turrell, Arkansas]]|| Butron Media Corporation || [[Regional Mexican]]
|-
|[[WMPS]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>1210 AM || Bartlett || rowspan="2" |Flinn Broadcasting Corporation||[[Adult Standards]]
|-
|[[WMSO]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>1240 AM || [[Southaven, Mississippi]]|| Urban oldies
|-
|[[WLOK]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>1340 AM || Memphis ||WLOK Radio Inc || Urban gospel
|-
|[[WLRM]] ||<span style="display:none">0</span>1380 AM  || Millington ||F.W. Robbert Broadcasting  || Blues
|-
|[[WOWW]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>1430 AM || Germantown ||Flinn Broadcasting Corporation  ||[[Classic hits]]
|-
|[[WBBP]] ||<span style="display:none">0</span>1480 AM  || Memphis || Bountiful Blessings || Urban gospel
|-
|[[WMQM]] || <span style="display:none">0</span>1600 AM || [[Lakeland, Tennessee|Lakeland]]||F. W. Robbert Broadcasting||Christian
|-
|}

=== Cultural references ===

==== Music ====
Memphis is the subject of numerous pop and country songs, including "[[The Memphis Blues]]" by [[W. C. Handy]], "[[Memphis, Tennessee (song)|Memphis, Tennessee]]" by [[Chuck Berry]], "Night Train to Memphis" by [[Roy Acuff]], "Goin' to Memphis" by [[Paul Revere and the Raiders]], "[[Queen of Memphis]]" by [[Confederate Railroad]], "[[Memphis Soul Stew]]" by [[King Curtis]], "[[Maybe It Was Memphis]]" by [[Pam Tillis]], "[[Graceland (song)|Graceland]]" by [[Paul Simon]], "Memphis Train" by [[Rufus Thomas]], "[[All the Way from Memphis]]" by [[Mott the Hoople]], "[[Wrong Side of Memphis]]" by [[Trisha Yearwood]], "[[Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again]]" by [[Bob Dylan]], "Memphis Skyline" by [[Rufus Wainwright]], "Sequestered in Memphis" by [[the Hold Steady]] and "[[Walking in Memphis]]" by [[Marc Cohn]].

In addition, Memphis is mentioned in scores of other songs, including "[[Proud Mary]]" by [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]], "[[Honky Tonk Women]]" by [[the Rolling Stones]], "[[Dixie Chicken (album)|Dixie Chicken]]" by [[Little Feat]], "[[Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes]]" by [[George Jones]], "Daisy Jane" by [[America (band)|America]], "[[Life Is a Highway]]" by [[Tom Cochrane]], "[[Black Velvet (song)|Black Velvet]]" by [[Alannah Myles]], "[[Cities (song)|Cities]]" by [[Talking Heads]], "Crazed Country Rebel" by [[Hank Williams III]], "[[Pride (In the Name of Love)]]" by [[U2]], "M.E.M.P.H.I.S." by the [[Disco Biscuits]], "New New Minglewood Blues" and "Candyman" by [[the Grateful Dead]], "You Should Be Glad" by [[Widespread Panic]], "Roll With Me" by [[8Ball & MJG]], "Someday" by [[Steve Earle]] and popularly recorded by [[Shawn Colvin]], and many others.

More than 1,000 commercial recordings of over 800 distinct songs contain "Memphis" in them. The [[Memphis Rock N' Soul Museum]] maintains an ever updated list of these on their website.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.memphisrocknsoul.org/over1000songs |title=Over 1,000 Songs |website=Memphisrocknsoul.org |access-date=November 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623030942/http://www.memphisrocknsoul.org/over1000songs |archive-date=June 23, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==== Film and television ====
Many films are set in the American city including, ''[[Black Snake Moan (film)|Black Snake Moan]]'', ''[[The Blind Side (film)|The Blind Side]]'', ''[[Cast Away]]'', ''[[Choices: The Movie]]'', ''[[The Client (1994 film)|The Client]]'', ''[[Elvis (2022 film)|Elvis]]'', ''[[The Firm (1993 film)|The Firm]]'', ''[[Forty Shades of Blue]]'', ''[[Great Balls of Fire! (film)|Great Balls of Fire!]]'', ''[[Hustle & Flow]]'', ''[[Kill Switch (2008 film)|Kill Switch]]'', ''[[Making the Grade (1984 film)|Making the Grade]]'', ''[[Memphis Belle (film)|Memphis Belle]]'', ''[[Mississippi Grind]]'', ''[[Mystery Train (film)|Mystery Train]]'', ''[[N-Secure]]'', ''[[The Rainmaker (1997 film)|The Rainmaker]]'', ''[[The Silence of the Lambs (film)|The Silence of the Lambs]]'', ''[[Soul Men]]'', and ''[[Walk the Line]]''.

Many of those and other films have also been filmed in Memphis including, ''Black Snake Moan'', ''Walk the Line'', ''Hustle & Flow'', ''Forty Shades of Blue'', ''[[21 Grams]]'', ''[[A Painted House]]'', ''[[American Saint]]'', ''[[The Poor and Hungry]]'', ''Cast Away'', ''[[Woman's Story]]'', ''[[The Big Muddy]]'', ''The Rainmaker'', ''[[Finding Graceland]]'', ''[[The People vs. Larry Flynt]]'', ''[[The Delta (film)|The Delta]]'', ''[[Teenage Tupelo]]'', ''[[A Family Thing]]'', ''[[Without Air]]'', ''The Firm'', ''The Client'', ''[[The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag]]'', ''[[Trespass (1992 film)|Trespass]]'', ''The Silence of the Lambs'', ''Great Balls of Fire!'', ''[[Elvis and Me]]'', ''Mystery Train'', ''[[Leningrad Cowboys Go America]]'', ''[[Heart of Dixie (film)|Heart of Dixie]]'', ''[[The Contemporary Gladiator]]'', ''[[U2: Rattle and Hum]]'', ''Making the Grade'', ''[[The River Rat]]'', ''[[The River (1984 film)|The River]]'', ''[[Hallelujah! (film)|Hallelujah!]]'', ''[[Elizabethtown (film)|Elizabethtown]]'', ''[[3000 Miles to Graceland]]'', ''[[A Face in the Crowd (film)|A Face in the Crowd]]'', ''[[Undefeated (2011 film)|Undefeated]]'', ''[[Man on the Moon (film)|Man on the Moon]]'', ''[[Nothing but the Truth (2008 American film)|Nothing But the Truth]]'', ''[[Sore Losers]]'', ''[[Soul Men]]'', ''[[I Was a Zombie for the F.B.I.]]'', ''[[I'm From Hollywood]]'', ''[[The Grace Card]]'', ''[[This is Elvis]]'', ''[[Cookie's Fortune]]'', ''[[Open Five]]'', ''[[The Open Road]]'', ''[[In the Valley of Elah]]'', ''[[Walk Hard]]'', ''[[My Blueberry Nights]]'', ''[[Savage Country]]'', and ''[[Two-Lane Blacktop]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://historic-memphis.com/memphis/filmed-in-memphis/filmed-in-memphis.html |title= Filmed in Memphis...On Location in the Historic City |last=Gill |first=Gene |website=Historic-memphis.com|access-date=June 22, 2016}}</ref>

The television series ''[[Greenleaf (TV series)|Greenleaf]]'', ''[[Memphis Beat]]'', ''[[Quarry (TV series)|Quarry]]'' and ''[[Bluff City Law]]'' are set in the city.

====Literature====

Many works of fiction and literature are set in Memphis. These include ''[[The Reivers]]'' by [[William Faulkner]] (1962), ''September, September'' by Shelby Foote (1977); [[Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor|Peter Taylor]]'s ''The Old Forest and Other Stories'' (1985), and his [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning ''[[A Summons to Memphis]]'' (1986); ''[[The Firm (novel)|The Firm]]'' (1991) and ''[[The Client (novel)|The Client]]'' (1993), both by [[John Grisham]]; ''Memphis Afternoons: a Memoir'' by James Conaway (1993), ''Plague of Dreamers'' by Steve Stern (1997); ''[[Cassina Gambrel Was Missing]]'' by William Watkins (1999); ''The Guardian'' by Beecher Smith (1999), "We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon" by Corey Mesler (2005), ''[[The Silence of the Lambs (novel)|The Silence of the Lambs]]'' by [[Thomas Harris]], and ''The Architect'' by James Williamson (2007).