Springfield Media

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Springfield has Many Media Outlets

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Television

Channel 6 (KBBL-TV)

Channel Six is the local television station for springfield. It features many programs

Channel 3

Public Access channel 'in which homer aired the Innocent report in Homer Badman

Channel 92

Yet another Public Access Channel 92 aired Homer's Commercial for Mr Plow in Mr. Plow

Channel Ocho

Is a spanish local access channel Featuring Bumble Bee Man

Infomercial Channel

I Can't Believe They Invented It! Featuring Troy McClure

Radio

KBBL

  • KBBL-FM 102.5 - The Bill and Marty show first seen in Bart Gets an Elephant.
  • KBBL-AM 970AM (TALK) aka K-BABBLE - Theme "No sports, no rock, no information; for mindless chatter, we're your station,"
  • Gabbin' about God - Rev. LoveJoy's talk show. First seen in Like Father, Like Clown
  • Jerry Rude and the Bathroom Bunch - a Howard Stern parody first seen in Monty Can't Buy Me Love
  • Birch Barlow - an obvious takeoff on Rush Limbaugh, first seen in Sideshow Bob Roberts
  • Dr. Marvin Monroe - Call in psychiatry radio show. from There's No Disgrace Like Home The call line# 1-800-555-HUGS.

KFSL

KFSL 103-FM (Classic Rock) First seen in Homerpalooza

KUDD

KUDD - (Country\Western) first seen in Colonel Homer Theme: 'Don't touch that dial you got KUDD on it'

KJAZ

KJAZ - (Jazz) First seen in [[Round Springfield]


News Papers

Springfield Shopper

The Springfield Shopper is the most commonly recurring local newspaper in Springfield. It carries opinion, sports, food, world, arts, religion and leisure sections. It tends towards tabloid stories, with such headlines as 'Woman Weds Ape', 'Hippo promoted to detective' and 'Crazed Mom Goes Topless (Photos Pages 3-28)'. It was founded in the early 1900s by Johnny Newspaperseed, a small boy who travelled America founding newspapers. The Shopper merged with the Springfield Times, Post, Globe, Herald, Jewish News, and Hot Sex Weekly.

Homer Simpson has worked for the newspaper as a food critic. After initially being too kind (giving a slice of pizza he found under the sofa at least 8 out of 10, deducting a point for having a Hot Wheels car stuck on it), he switched to becoming a cruel critic, and was almost murdered by a disgruntled baker with a poisoned éclair. The newspaper was also bought briefly by Montgomery Burns, who was on a mission to control all the media of Springfield, and by the The Movementarians, an evil cult who were attempting to brainwash all Springfieldians.

The lower headline will generally be a joke either about the upper headlines, or about journalism in general ("Second headline less important, studies show"). In one episode, it is revealed that Shelbyville has a newspaper called The Shelbyville Daily, whose slogan is "Once a week, every week". In Three Gays of the Condo, Julio is seen reading The New York Times. Homer asks why he reads the Times even though he doesn't live in New York. Julio says he dislikes the Shopper because all the headlines are a joke. A real-life Springfield Shopper was published in 2007, written by Simpsons creator Matt Groening himself. It was found inside other newspapers as a feature to advertise The Simpsons Movie.

The Springfield Shopper was even used in a Simpsons couch gag for the season seventeen episode Simpsons Christmas Stories (and the season 19 episode Marge Gamer) where The Simpsons are pictured on the couch and the headline reads: "COUCH GAG THRILLS NATION".

The Red Dress Press

A short-lived newspaper, written by Lisa Simpson is called The Red Dress Press with the help of Bart, Nelson, Milhouse and Ralph playing various roles in its publication. Ralph then got picked as a writer up by the New Yorker. The Red Dress Press and was introduced in the last episode of the Simpsons' 15th season, called Fraudcast News, in which after Mr. Burns controls all of the media in Springfield, Lisa tries to fight back with this newspaper, and succeeds after inspiring others to make newspapers of their own.

The Lenny Saver

One of the many independent newspapers after the success of the Red Dress Press, Made by Lenny

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