Omaha: Communications

Newspapers and Magazines

Omaha's daily newspaper is The Omaha World-Herald, published daily in the morning and evening and on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Several special-interest newspapers and magazines are also published in Omaha. Among them are The Catholic Voice and Jewish Press. The weekly Midlands Business Journal presents local business information on a weekly basis.

Television and Radio

Five television stations, affiliated with CBS, Fox, PBS, ABC, and NBC, broadcast from Omaha; two additional channels are received from Lincoln. Several companies supply cable television service to the metropolitan area. Radio programming that includes a range of musical formats such as rock, classical, jazz, and religious, as well as educational, information, and news features, is provided by 17 AM and FM stations based in Omaha.

Media Information: Omaha World-Herald, 1334 Dodge St., Omaha, NE 68102; telephone (402)444-1000

Omaha Online

City of Omaha Home Page. Available www.ci.omaha.ne.us

Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce. Available www.accessomaha.com

Omaha Convention and Visitors Bureau. Available www.visitomaha.com

Omaha by Design community development home page. Available www.livelyomaha.org

Omaha Public Library. Available www.omaha.lib.ne.us

Omaha Public Schools. Available www.ops.org

Omaha World-Herald. Available www.omaha.com

Selected Bibliography

Crary, Margaret, Susette La Flesche: Voice of the Omaha Indians (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1973)

Larsen, Lawrence H., and Barbara J. Cottrell, The Gate City: A History of Omaha (University of Nebraska Press, 1997)

Menard, Orville D., Political Bossism in Mid America: Tom Dennison's Omaha, 1900–1933 (University Press of America, 1989)

Oursler, Fulton, Father Flanagan of Boys Town, by Fulton Oursler and Will Oursler (New York: Doubleday, 1949)