Baltimore is a major media market, even though the city is only a 45-minute drive northeast of Washington, D.C.

The city's primary daily newspaper, The Baltimore Sun, was sold by its Baltimore owners in 1986 to the Times Mirror Company,^[1] which was bought by the Tribune Company in 2000.^[2] Baltimore is the 24th largest television market and 21st largest radio market in the country.^{[citation needed]}

The Baltimore television market includes the city and ten counties in northeastern Maryland.^[4] Due to Baltimore's proximity to Washington, D.C., local viewers can also receive the signal of most television stations broadcasting in the Washington television market.^[5]

The following is a list of television stations licensed to and/or broadcasting from Baltimore, with network owned-and-operated stations highlighted in bold:

Other stations broadcasting from the greater Baltimore Metropolitan Area include: WMJF-CD, an Ion Television affiliate which transmits from Towson University in Towson, Maryland; and WQAW-LD, an Azteca affiliate in Lake Shore, Maryland.^[6]

Cable channels based in the Baltimore area include:

• Baltimore magazine
• Baltimore SmartCEO^[9]
• Inside Lacrosse
• Grub Street (literary magazine)
• 32 Poems
• Welter
• Smartish Pace
• Where What When
• The Wine Advocate
• B Woman

• Baltimore Banner
• Baltimore Brew
• Baltimore Fishbowl
• The Real News Network
• Technical.ly Baltimore
• Wide Angle Youth Media

• Ethnic press in Baltimore
• Media in Washington, D.C.
• Maryland media
  • List of newspapers in Maryland
  • List of radio stations in Maryland
  • List of television stations in Maryland
  • Media of locales in Maryland: College Park, Cumberland, Frederick, Gaithersburg