- Media in Greater Sudbury
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This is a list of media outlets in the city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
As the largest city in Northeastern Ontario, Greater Sudbury is the region's primary media centre. Due to the relatively small size of the region's individual media markets, most of the region is served at least partially by Sudbury-based media — CICI-TV produces almost all local programming on the CTV Northern Ontario system, and the CBC Radio stations CBCS-FM and CBON-FM broadcast to the entire region through extensive rebroadcaster networks. As well, most of the commercial radio stations in Northeastern Ontario's smaller cities simulcast programming produced in Sudbury for at least a portion of their programming schedules, particularly in weekend and evening slots.
As of 2009, all radio stations in Sudbury currently operate on the FM dial. Sudbury's last AM radio station, 790 CIGM, turned off its transmitter on September 30, 2009, ending more than 70 years of AM radio broadcasting in the city.
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History
Sudbury was home to several notable broadcasting firsts in Canada.
CICI-TV, which launched in 1953 with the call sign CKSO, was the first television station in Canada not directly owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was also one of the first television stations in Canada to broadcast in colour, as well as the first television station in Canada to hire a woman, Judy Jacobson, as a weather presenter.[1]
CHNO went to air in 1947 as the first bilingual radio station in Canada outside of Quebec. Its owner, F. Baxter Ricard, subsequently became the first commercial broadcaster in Canada licensed to operate two AM radio stations in the same city when he opened CFBR in 1957.[2]
Radio
Frequency Call sign Branding Format Owner Notes 90.1 FM CBBS-FM CBC Radio 2 public music Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 90.9 FM CBBX-FM Espace musique public music Canadian Broadcasting Corporation French 91.7 FM CICS-FM KICX 91.7 country Larche Communications 92.7 FM CJRQ-FM Q92 classic rock Rogers Communications 93.5 FM CIGM-FM Hot 93.5 contemporary hit radio Newcap Broadcasting Formerly aired on AM 790; converted to FM in 2009.[3] 95.5 FM CJTK-FM KFM Christian music Eternacom 96.7 FM CKLU-FM CKLU campus radio Laurentian University 98.1 FM CBON-FM Première Chaîne public news/talk Canadian Broadcasting Corporation French 98.9 FM CHYC-FM Le Loup 98.9 hot adult contemporary Le5 Communications French 99.9 FM CBCS-FM CBC Radio One public news/talk Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 101.7 FM CKJC-FM tourist information 1158556 Ontario Ltd. (Roger de Brabant) 103.9 FM CHNO-FM Rewind 103.9 classic hits Newcap Broadcasting 105.3 FM CJMX-FM EZ Rock adult contemporary Rogers Communications Defunct stations
- CKBB (2001–2005)
- CKSO (2002–2006; not to be confused with earlier stations which are still in operation under different call signs)
Early radio in Sudbury
CKSO radio signed on as Sudbury's first radio station in 1935, but prior to CKSO's sign-on in the 1930s there was a radio station named CFCR under the name of licensee "Laurentide Air Service, Ltd.", operating on the frequency of 410 metres as of 1924. As of date, there's unknown historical information on this radio station, when it began broadcasting or ceased broadcasting, however, according to the Canadian Communications Foundation page, it's believed the station began broadcasting in 1923 up until around 1925.[4][5][6]
Out-of-market radio
The out-of-market CKNR from Elliot Lake, CJJM from Espanola and CFRM from Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands can be heard in parts of the city, particularly in the western half of Walden.
In 2008, CFRM applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to add a rebroadcaster in Sudbury, citing that this "would allow Sudbury residents who own property on Manitoulin Island to stay connected by providing them with important information relating to local weather, marine and road reports and events specific to Manitoulin." That application was denied by the CRTC on April 29, 2008.[7]
CBCS, CBON and CJTK have repeaters in Espanola and on Manitoulin Island. Most of the city's commercial radio stations, however, are able to serve this region directly from their Sudbury transmitters.
Television
The city is served by only one conventional broadcast station which originates programming locally. All of the city's other television signals are rebroadcasters of stations from other markets.
As in most Canadian cities, digital television transmission has not commenced in Greater Sudbury as of early 2009. However, all of the city's television signals have their DTV channel assignments already in place, and the deadline for digital conversion in Canada has been set for 2011.
OTA channel DTV channel Cable channel Call sign Network Notes 5 8 4 CICI-TV CTV flagship of CTV Northern Ontario 9 35 8 CBLT-6 CBC formerly CKNC-TV, rebroadcasts CBLT Toronto 11 65 3 CFGC-TV Global rebroadcasts CIII Toronto 13 47 12 CBLFT-2 Radio-Canada rebroadcasts CBLFT Toronto 19 50 2 CICO-TV-19 TVOntario local relay 25 20 7 CHLF-TV TFO originates from Toronto 41 39 6 CHCH-TV-4 independent rebroadcasts CHCH-TV Hamilton Cable
The cable television provider in the city is EastLink (formerly Northern Cable). The city's community channel is branded as EastLink TV. EastLink also produces a separate channel for real estate and advertising listings, branded as Home & Market Television, on cable channel 13.
American network affiliates available on cable in Sudbury come from Detroit (WDIV/NBC, WXYZ/ABC, WWJ/CBS, WJBK/FOX) and Buffalo (WNED/PBS).
Sudbury is one of the few cities in Ontario whose cable provider carries an affiliate of the Quebec television network V, which has only voluntary carriage rights outside of Quebec.
Print
Sudbury's daily newspaper is the Sudbury Star, owned by Quebecor's Sun Media division. The newspaper with the highest circulation is Northern Life, a community paper which publishes twice a week.
Several local neighbourhoods within the city are also served by weekly community papers such as The Valley Vision and South Side Story. There are also student newspapers at the city's postsecondary institutions: Lambda and L'Orignal déchaîné at Laurentian University, The Shield at Cambrian College and L'Étudiant at Collège Boréal. The online conservative webzine Enter Stage Right began as a weekly column in Lambda.
Sudbury Coffee News is a restaurant publication delivered to restaurants, coffee shops, hotels and other establishments in the Sudbury area.[8]
A francophone community paper, Le Voyageur, is published weekly. One of the longest-running Franco-Ontarian newspapers, L'Ami du peuple, was published in Sudbury weekly from 1942 to 1968. Le Voyageur commenced publishing shortly after L'Ami du peuple ceased.
Sudbury is also, along with Thunder Bay, one of the major centres of Finnish-Canadian settlement. An important historical Finnish newspaper, Vapaus, was published from 1917 to 1974. Arvo Vaara, an early editor of the newspaper, was convicted in 1929 on charges of sedition and libel after purportedly publishing unpatriotic remarks against King George V.[9]
The magazines Northern Ontario Business, Sudbury Living and Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal are published by Laurentian Media Group, the publishers of Northern Life.
Internet
In early 2005, an internet newspaper was launched as Sudbury News Now, delivering local information, such as news, weather and sports. It also included breaking news updates, but was discontinued less than a year later.
Northern Life and EastLink are partners in Sudbury24.ca, an online video community which combines news reports from EastLink TV with user-created video content.[10]
References
- ^ Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes
- ^ [1]
- ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2008-326
- ^ [2]
- ^ [3]
- ^ Early Canadian Radio Station lists
- ^ CRTC Decision 2008-90
- ^ sudburycoffeenews.com
- ^ C.M. Wallace and Ashley Thomson, Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital. Dundurn Press, 1993. ISBN 1550021702.
- ^ sudbury24.ca
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