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Spokane in film and television
Several films have featured Spokane:
• End Game was mostly shot in the Spokane area, although the film takes place in the eastern United States. The movie stars Angie Harmon and Cuba Gooding Jr..
• The 1985 movie Vision Quest, starring Matthew Modine, was filmed in Spokane and features many landmarks in town, including The Onion restaurant, the Ridpath Hotel, and Rogers High School. It also features a cameo by an early career Madonna (it was actually Madonna's first movie appearance).
• Benny & Joon, starring Johnny Depp, was filmed in Peaceful Valley, near downtown. The scene in the movie with Benny doing the trick with the hat in the cafe was filmed in Ferguson's Diner in the Garland Village.
• Home of the Brave, starring Samuel L. Jackson and 50 Cent, production on that completed shooting in Spokane in April 2006. The film will be released in theaters December 15, 2006.
• Hangman's Curse, a book by local author Frank Peretti, became a movie and was filmed in areas in and around Spokane.
• Mozart and the Whale starring Josh Hartnett, Radha Mitchell, and Gary Cole, about the development of the romantic relationship between two people with Asperger syndrome
(a form of autism), and based on the real-life experiences of Jerry Newport and
his wife, Mary.
• The Comedy Central TV series Dog Bites Man follows a team of news reporters at KHBX, a fictional TV station in Spokane.
• Son A made for TV movie from 1983 about the story of Kevin Coe and a string of rapes he commited on the South Hill of Spokane from 1979 to 1982.
Local media
Print media Spokane is serviced by a variety of print media. Newspaper service includes its only daily newspaper, The Spokesman-Review; the weekly alternative newspaper, The Pacific Northwest Inlander; the bi-weekly business journal, The Spokane Journal of Business; the monthly GLBT paper, Stone Wall News Northwest; a monthly outdoor activities paper, Out There Monthly; and the monthly paper covering the Garland neighborhood, The Garland Villager. Spokane also has several community magazines, The Finger, a quarterly magazine for the disillusioned; Spokane Coeur D'Alene Living, a monthly home and lifestyle magazine; and The Word, a monthly arts and entertainment magazine.
Television
Spokane serves as the television broadcast center for much the area along the border of Washington and Idaho, west to the Cascade Mountains, south to the Oregon border and North into Canada. Its major network television affiliates are KREM 2 (CBS), KXLY 4 (ABC), KHQ 6 (NBC), KSPS 7 (PBS), KSKN 22 (WB), KAYU 28 (Fox), KGPX 34 (i). It also receives transmissions from KCDT 26 (PBS) based in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and KQUP-LP 47 (RTN) based in Pullman, Washington.
Radio
According to Arbitron, Spokane is the 92nd largest radio market in the United States with 480,800 over age 12 and over [7]. The Arbitron ratings for Spring 2006 are listed below (Persons 12+):
Top FM radio stations
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Rank |
Station ID |
Frequency |
Format |
Share |
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1 |
KHTQ-FM |
94.5 |
Active Rock |
5.9 |
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2 |
KEYF-FM |
101.1 |
Oldies |
5.6 |
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KIXZ-FM |
96.1 |
Country |
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KKZX-FM |
98.9 |
Classic Rock |
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5 |
KDRK-FM |
93.7 |
Country |
5.1 |
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KXLY-FM |
99.9 |
AC (now Adult
Alternative) |
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KZZU-FM |
92.9 |
Hot AC |
Top AM radio stations
|
Rank |
Station ID |
Frequency |
Format |
Share |
|
1 |
KQNT-AM |
590 |
News/Talk |
3.4 |
|
2 |
KXLY-AM |
920 |
News/Talk |
3.2 |
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KEYF-AM |
1050 |
Adult Standards |
|
4 |
KGA-AM |
1510 |
News/Talk |
2.7 |
|
5 |
KXLX-AM |
700 |
Sports |
1.5 |
Sister cities
In the cultural exchange program known as "Sister Cities" Spokane is twinned with:
• Nishinomiya, Japan since September, 1961 (Spokane's first sister city)
• Limerick, Ireland
• Jecheon, South Korea
• Jilin, China
See also
• Spokane Neighborhoods
• Category:Buildings and structures in Spokane
• Spokane House
Annual events
• Spokane Events
• Lilac Festival
• First Night Spokane
• Spokane Hoopfest
• Spokane Folklore Society Fall Folk Festival
• The Northwest Renaissance Festival
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