Media in Minneapolis–Saint Paul

The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, One Nation News[4] and the Finance and Commerce business daily are published in Minneapolis, as is the Web-based MinnPost.com.

[8] Minneapolis community newspapers include the sister publications Downtown Journal, formerly Skyway News, and Southwest Journal, which cover downtown and southwest Minneapolis, respectively, as well as numerous neighborhood papers such as the North News, Seward Profile, Southside Pride, and Whittier Globe.

TV broadcasts first occurred more than a decade earlier during the 1930s when engineers for radio station WDGY (now KFAN) experimented with a mechanical television system.

Communities in the region have their own Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV channels.

Area residents of the right age look back fondly on many of the locally produced shows that were on the air for about two decades, from the early days of TV in Minnesota up until the 1970s.

Several television programs originating in the Twin Cities have been aired nationally on terrestrial and cable TV networks.

In the 1980s, KTMA (now WUCW) created a number of low-budget shows, including the cult classic Mystery Science Theater 3000 (which later aired on The Comedy Channel/Comedy Central from 1989 to 1996 and the Sci-Fi Channel from 1997 to 2004).

The short-lived Let's Bowl (which aired on Comedy Central) started on KARE, and the PBS series Mental Engineering originated on the St. Paul public-access television network.

The 1970s CBS situation comedy set in Minneapolis, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, won three Golden Globes[14] and 29 Emmy Awards.

Movies filmed in Minneapolis include Airport (1970),[17] The Heartbreak Kid (1972),[18] Slaughterhouse-Five (1972),[19] Ice Castles (1978),[20] Foolin' Around (1980),[21] Take This Job and Shove It (1981),[22] Purple Rain (1984),[23] That Was Then, This Is Now (1985),[24] The Mighty Ducks (1992),[25] Untamed Heart (1993),[26] Little Big League (1994),[27] Beautiful Girls (1996),[28] Jingle All the Way (1996),[29] Fargo (1996),[30] and Young Adult (2011).