Media in Monterey County, California


Media in Monterey County is a designated market area or media market that includes print media and broadcast media in Monterey County, California.
It includes the cities of Monterey and Salinas, as well as the towns in the Salinas Valley in the Central Coast of California.

Television

The Monterey-Salinas metropolitan statistical area is served by a variety of local television stations, and is the 124th largest designated market area in the U.S. with 222,900 homes. As of 2025:

ABC affiliate

The Monterey-Salinas area lost its American Broadcasting Company broadcast affiliate in 2000, when KNTV was purchased, and then became the NBC station for the San Francisco Oakland San Jose metropolitan area. KNTV later moved its tower from Loma Prieta Peak to San Bruno Mountain, ceasing its coverage in Monterey. At that time, ABC reached an agreement with Comcast Cable to provide a slightly-customized feed of San Francisco ABC O&O KGO-TV for the Monterey area, branded simply as ABC 7 and occasionally referred to by the mock call letters AABC. On December 20, 2010, KSBW announced that they will carry ABC programming over on its second digital subchannel, which has already launched on April 18, 2011.

Radio

Radio stations Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz area of dominant influence or continuous measurement market that are in Monterey County.

FM

List of Monterey County FM frequency stations:

AM

List of Monterey County AM frequency stations:

Internet

List of Monterey County Internet Radio stations:
  • SalinasRadio

Newspapers

Carmel Pine Cone Cedar Street TimesGonzales TribuneGreenfield NewsKing City RustlerThe Monterey County HeraldMonterey County Weekly The Salinas CalifornianEl Sol

Magazines

831 MagazineARTWORKS MagazineCarmel MagazineCoastal Canine MagazineMonterey County Magazine
  • ''WestCoast Magazine''