Chapter 10: San Francisco Media and Entertainment

  San Francisco is recognizable in the United States for many other reasons. The cities performing arts center hosts one of the popular performing-art companies in the country. It is also very notable that San Francisco hosts the second largest opera company in North America.

The San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States. The Treaty of San Francisco which formally ended the conflict with Japan was signed in this location. 

There are a handful of venues and other forms of entertainment that are listed below. Please note that it does not represent the whole list. I just choose a couple which I either visited or that were very well known to the rest of the Country.

Musuems

• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art- It exhibits 20th Century and Contemporary Art and gets about 600,000 visits a year.
• California Academy of Science- A natural history museum.
• De Young Musuem - Fine arts musuem.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Media

• San Francisco Chronicle-It is equivalent to the Los Angeles Times we have here. It is the most widely read paper in northern Calfornia.
• San Francisco has the 6th largest television market and 4th largest radio market in the United States

Sports/Recreation

• 49ers- San Francisco's longest hosted professional sports franchise.
• Giants-San Francisco's hosted professional baseball team.
• San Francisco Marathon - More than 21,000 participants.

Candlestick Park

Source:

http://web.archive.org/web/20071229011210/http://www.sfmoma.org/membership/corp_sponsors_why_sponsor.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20070813073544/http://www.accessabc.com/products/top200.htm

http://www.arbitron.com/home/mm001050.asp

http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/S-F-Marathon-26-2-miles-of-feel-good-pain-3223749.php

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