- Media in Winnipeg
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The following is a list of media in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Contents
Newspapers and magazines
Winnipeg has two daily newspapers. The Winnipeg Free Press is a broadsheet and the Winnipeg Sun is a tabloid. There is one alternative weekly called Uptown that is available free at newsstands. There are five weekly newspapers delivered free to most Winnipeg households based on geography. There are several ethnic newspapers as well as regionally- and nationally-based magazines based in the city.
Print
Defunct: Winnipeg Tribune
Daily newspapers
- the Winnipeg Free Press
- the Winnipeg Sun
Ethnic media
- The Jewish Post & News
- The Manitoba Muslim
- The Filipino Journal
- Ang Peryodiko
- The Philippine Times
- La Liberté
- O Mundial
- Manitoba China Times
- Manitoba Indochina Chinese News
Weekly/monthly newspapers
- Uptown - found at various downtown locations.
- OutWords - found at various downtown locations.
- The Projector - found at Red River College.
- The Manitoban - found at the University of Manitoba and various locations.
- The Uniter - found at the University of Winnipeg and various locations.
- The Herald- Free weekly newspaper delivered to northeast Winnipeg homes.
- The Lance- Free weekly newspaper delivered to south and southeast Winnipeg homes.
- The Metro - Free weekly newspaper delivered to west Winnipeg homes.
- The Times - Free weekly newspaper delivered to northwest Winnipeg homes.
- The Sou'wester Free weekly newspaper delivered to southwest Winnipeg homes.
Magazines
- Canadian Dimension
- Winnipeg Women
- Winnipeg Men
- Ciao! Magazine
- WHERE Winnipeg
- See also: Magazines of Winnipeg[1]
Websites
Television stations
There are five English language stations and one French language station based in Winnipeg that supply free programming to the city. Most homes subscribe to cable through Shaw Communications, or digital television through MTS digital. There are also two satellite services available through Shaw Direct and Bell TV. Some homes use grey market satellite dishes to bring in signals from American satellite services.
Additionally, American network affiliates broadcasting from North Dakota are available over-the-air in many parts of Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba. Until the mid-1980s, KXJB and KVLY-TV (then known as KTHI) were available on Winnipeg's cable service. These channels were replaced by WDIV and WJBK from Detroit, later WTOL from Toledo. Currently, WCCO and KARE from Minneapolis, MN are available to Winnipeg via cable. WDAZ-TV and KGFE, both from Grand Forks, ND are still available on Winnipeg cable systems. WUHF, the Fox-affiliate from Rochester, New York, has been available on cable since December 1994. Winnipeg is isolated from out-of-market television stations that can be viewed over-the-air, with the shutdown of CKX, a CBC affiliate in Brandon, Manitoba in 2009, and KNRR, a Fox affiliate in border town Pembina, North Dakota, broadcasting only in digital.
KNRR was intended to target Winnipeg, but is not carried on any Canadian cable TV systems due to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission concerns that Winnipeg business will advertise on KNRR rather than Winnipeg stations. Ironically, some Winnipeg businesses advertise on WDAZ, which is carried on cable TV in Winnipeg, as many Winnipeg residents shop in Grand Forks (and Fargo) to take advantage of lower taxes. However this is sometimes ineffective due to simultaneous substitution. This practice requires cable TV systems to replace WDAZ's signal with that of a Winnipeg station (usually either CKY or CKND) whenever the same program and episode airs at the same time.
OTA Channel Cable Channel Digital Channel Call Sign Network Other Notes 3 10 51 CBWFT Radio-Canada Winnipeg's only OTA French language station 6 2 27 CBWT CBC 7 5 46 CKY CTV 9 12 40 CKND Global 13 8 32 CHMI Citytv 35 11 2 CIIT Joytv Locally based national cable television channels
Former locally based national cable television channels
- DejaView - classic television programming
- Lonestar - western programming, now MovieTime
- Fox Sports World Canada - sports
- mentv - men's programming
- CoolTV - Jazz
- X-Treme Sports - sports programming
- Mystery TV - crime and mystery drama
- TVtropolis - classic television series, formally known as Prime
- WTN - women's programming
Radio
Winnipeg is home to 24 AM and FM radio stations. The most popular station for many years has been CJOB, a talk-oriented station famous for its coverage of major storms and floods. After an absence of many years, Winnipeg is now home to two English-language and one French-language campus radio stations. NCI is devoted to Aboriginal programming and CKJS is devoted to ethnic programming. CBC Radio One and CBC Radio 2 broadcast local and national programming, and two CBC stations also broadcast French programming. There are several rock and pop oriented stations, two country stations, and one tourist information station.
Defunct
Frequency Call sign Brand name Format Owner/Notes City 107.9 FM CJWV "Flava 107.9" urban Harmony Broadcasting Ltd Winnipeg (defunct) Notes: In 1922, George Melrose Bell of Calgary was licenced to launch a radio station in Winnipeg known as CKZC-AM but this station never made it to the airwaves as he was too busy putting stations on the air in Calgary and Regina, and the license expired.[4] Another defunct station, CKZC was launched by Lynn V. Salton in 1922. It is currently unknown of what happened to CKZC.[5]
Podcasts
- "Return to Sender" - a music and comedy podcast focussed on promoting little-known, often local, bands[6]
References
- ^ Magazines of Winnipeg: Canadian Dimension, Winnipeg Women, Winnipeg Men, Ciao! Magazine, /WHERE Winnipeg
- ^ Radio News in April 2005 DXing.info
- ^ hard-core-dx.com CJML 580 Winnipeg back for a fortnight
- ^ CHCF-AM, Winnipeg (1922) "The station that never made it on the airwaves", Canadian Communications Foundation.
- ^ CKZC-AM Winnipeg (1922) at Canadian Communications Foundation
- ^ http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/return-to-sender/id363390349?ign-mpt=uo%3D4
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