Los Banos California is served by several media types that cover the news in town. If you are looking for printed newspaper or a video feed direct from the source, you can find it here. From our local Los Banos Newspapers to the TV stations located a few miles away, Los Banos gets pretty decent coverage.

What follows is a listing of some of the Los Banos News / Media Outlets we know about and a little editorial about each of them. The comments are of course just our personal opinions and you should visit or purchase each and make up your own mind.

Online Media

OurLosBanos.com

Well since you are here and reading OurLosBanos.com I don't think a lot of introduction is needed. We regulalrly post informational opinion bassed stories on all sorts of things. We tend to post much of our work on the forums / blog.

OurLosBanos.com is a community resource provided by a husband and wife team and is presented to the community as a free gift to our Los Banos neighbors and to people visiting our community. We hope you enjoy 'opinion journalism' with an interactive twist: Though the site is based totally on our own opinions, our goal is to bring a unique community-enhanced approach to local information exchange via the forums. We have created a tremendous number of of pages for this site and have spent many hundreds (possibly even a couple of thousand) hours on this 'gift'. We see OurLosBanos.com (in part) as our version of community service. We really do love our town and want to help Los Banos by giving something back to our city in our own small way. Of course there is absolutely no charge to use this site or to participate on the forums.

 

Los Banos Newspapers

Los Banos is served by three newspapers. The Los Banos Enterprise, Tony Dutra's "The Paper", and a Spanish language paper called Vida en El Vale.

The Los Banos Enterprise Newspaper

The first News resource on any list of Los Banos news organizations must be the Los Banos Enterprise. This local Newspaper is printed twice per week on Tuesdays and Fridays and their subscription prices are quite reasonable in our opinion.

The Enterprise also has an online presence which includes news and a forum for readers to share their opinions.

The Enterprise is was founded in 1891 and is owned by a much larger company, the national McClatchy Newspaper organization. It is a full service newspaper with everything from news to opinions, to classifieds, to special coverage sections. In particular we really enjoy the local news stories they publish and we never miss the columns by Mr. John Spevak and Ms. Diane Ingram.

The Los Banos Enterprise often publishes news about new businesses opening up in Los Banos and the scuttlebutt surrounding those that may be coming. We really enjoy this part of their coverage and it is always great to first learn about the newest members of our business community on the pages of the Enterprise.

As noted above the main strength of the Enterprise in our opinion is the local Los Banos news that they provide. We have met several of their reporters and rarely ever skip over a story with a byline by one of our three favorites. Their reporting staff is quite active and it is a rare occurrence to not see them at any local event.

The Los Baños Enterprise building is at 1253 W. I Street and can be reached by phone at: 209-826-3831 for subscriptions, advertising and other information.

Besides reading the Enterprise in print, you can also find the Los Banos Enterprise newspaper online. Click Here for a link to the Enterprise.

You can also find The Los Banos Enterprise for sale in local vending boxes all over town.

We do bylined news and event reporting as well as photojournalism as freelancers for The Los Banos Enterprise. The Los Banos Enterprise is published once per week on Fridays.

The Paper - Local Los Banos Newspaper

"The Paper" which is published by Tony Dutra's TFD Enterprises is a very small local newspaper that is published once per week on Fridays. This is a VERY local-centric newspaper and has a very homey feel to it.

"The Paper" prides itself on being a locally owned and operated resource and while they do not publish a tremendous volume of news, they are very close to the community and publish a great deal of information on the people and organizations around town. The Paper usually has a very down to earth and familial flair.

"The Paper" features writing from several different people, many of whom are just common folks that submit their stories to "The Paper" for inclusion. The staff also put in their own editorial columns and there are regular and guest columnists, but you can never be quite sure what you will find when you pick up "The Paper".

"The Paper" has been kind enough to publish a little piece from us each week called the OurLosBanos Calendar Corner which provides their readers with a printed rundown of many of the things you can find on that weeks OurLosBanos.com Calendar of Events.We also do bylined news and event reporting as well as photojournalism as freelancers for The Paper.

You can get The Paper at Santos Ford or at Los Banos Drugs. You may also subscribe to the paper by simply contacting TFD Enterprises at 209-827-0364

Besides reading THE PAPER in print, you can also find THE PAPER newspaper online. Click Here for a link to the Paper.

TFD Enterprises (aka Dutra's) The PAPER is published once per week on Fridays.

Vida en El Vale.

The Spanish Language newspaper (which has some articles in English) is Vida en El Vale. It is more of a Central valley Newspaper as near as I can tell. It too is owned by the national McClatchey Newspapers Inc.

Vida En El Vale can be reached at 559-441-6781

Click here for a link to them.

Out of area newspapers

There is also a local distributor for the San Francisco Chronnicle at 20690 West Heenry Miller 209-826-4014

Los Banos Broadcast And Cable News Media

Los Banos does not have any solely news related television or radio stations that are based in town that we are aware of. There are plenty of AM Radio and FM Radio stations that can be heard in Los Banos.

While Los Banos does not have a dedicated news radio station within our borders residents do use KYOS Newstalk 1480 out of Merced. KYOS sometimes covers Los Banos Stories.

Los Banos does however have a local cable TV channel that presents lots of community oriented news-like content. We are also working to get a public access cable channel set up and while that will not have breaking hard news per say it will likely have plenty of programming about such things.

TV 96 of Los Banos

TV 96 offers local programming such as feeds of the city council, school board meetings and whatnot. This would be considered somewhat of a "raw feed" as even the taped repeats are done pretty much in their entirety and there is no editorialization that I have ever noticed. Therefore TV 96 is not like a normal 'news channel' per se, but if you are interested in the government machinations of Los Banos this is a good place to park yourself a few hours per week.

If you do not have cable there is also an internet feed of the TV96 programming.

Los Banos is also in range of TV Stations 30, 47, 24, 26 which present news from time to time and sometimes cover Los Banos. KVPT 18 - Valley Public Television may also from time to time have items of local interest that are 'newsy'.