Media in Winnipeg
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Media in Winnipeg
The following is a list of media in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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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.
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Defunct: Winnipeg Tribune Daily newspapersEthnic media
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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) from Fargo, North Dakota were available on Winnipeg's cable service. These channels were replaced by WDIV-TV and WJBK from Detroit, later WTOL from Toledo. Currently, WCCO-TV and KARE from Minneapolis, Minnesota are available to Winnipeg via cable. WDAZ-TV and KGFE, both from Grand Forks, North Dakota are still available on Winnipeg cable TV systems. WUHF, the Fox-affiliate from Rochester, New York, has been available on cable since December 1994. KNRR, a Fox affiliate in border town Pembina, North Dakota, is available over-the-air, but its weak signal requires either a rooftop antenna pointed south or being located on a high floor of a tall building.
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.
| Digital Channel / PSIP | Cable Channel | Call Sign | Network | Other Notes |
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| 51 (PSIP: 3) | 10 | CBWFT-DT | Radio-Canada | Winnipeg's only OTA French language station |
| 27 (PSIP: 6) | 2 | CBWT-DT | CBC | |
| 7 | 5 | CKY-DT | CTV | |
| 40 (PSIP: 9) | 12 | CKND-DT | Global | |
| 13 | 8 | CHMI-DT | Citytv | |
| 35 | 11 | CIIT-DT | 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 |
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| 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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