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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.
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
Defunct Sudbury radio stations
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 the western parts of the city.
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 date. 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.
Cable
The cable television provider in the city is Persona. The city's community channel on Persona Cable is branded as Persona News 10. Persona 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 Persona Cable in Sudbury come from Detroit (WDIV/NBC, WXYZ/ABC, WTVS/PBS), Cadillac (WWTV/CBS) and Rochester, New York (WUHF/FOX).
Sudbury is one of the few cities in Ontario whose cable provider offers an affiliate of the Quebec television network TQS, which has only voluntary carriage rights outside of Quebec.
Print
Sudbury's daily newspaper is the Sudbury Star, owned by Quebecor's Osprey Media division. The newspaper with the highest circulation is Northern Life, a community paper which publishes twice a week.
Local communities within the city are also served by smaller weekly papers such as The Valley Vision, South Side Story and the Walden Observer. 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 the largest restaurant publication delivered to the finest restaurants in the area. It's a weekly publication delivered to restaurants, coffee shops, hotels, and anywhere people go to have a bite to eat. Coffee News has the week's funniest and most unusual news stories, jokes, trivia, amazing facts, entertainment and more. [7]
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.
The monthly magazine Northern Ontario Business and the quarterly trade publication Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal are published by Laurentian Media Group, the publishers of Northern Life.
Sudbury News Now (Defunct) - In early 2005, a Sudbury online internet newspaper was launched, as "sudburynewsnow.com" delivering local information, such as news, weather and sports. It also included breaking news updates, but was discontinued less than a year later.
Internet
sudbury24.ca - Sudbury Ontario's online video community.
References
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