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Media in Toronto

A production control room in Toronto's Rogers Studios for City and Omni Television. Both are subsidiaries of Rogers Media.

The media in Toronto encompasses a wide range of television and radio stations, as well as digital and print media outlets. These media platforms either service the entire city or are cater to a specific neighbourhood or community within Toronto. Additionally, several media outlets from Toronto extend their services to cover the Greater Toronto Area and the Golden Horseshoe region. While most media outlets in Toronto cater to local or regional audiences, there are also several national media outlets based in the city that distribute their services across Canada and caters to a national audience.

Toronto is largest mass media market in Canada, and the fourth-largest market in North America, behind New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. As a result, several Canadian media companies and conglomerates are based in Toronto.

TV stations

The Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto is the English-language broadcasting headquarters for the CBC's radio and television service.

The incumbent cable provider in the Toronto area is Rogers Cable, which originally secured the cable franchise for most of the pre-amalgamation city of Toronto, and later purchased the systems in surrounding areas. Since 2010, Bell Fibe TV (an IPTV terrestrial service operated by Rogers' rival Bell Canada) has been available in most neighbourhoods in the Greater Toronto Area. Independent IPTV television services such as Vmedia and Zazeen have also become available.

American network affiliates on Toronto cable are piped in from Buffalo, New York, including WGRZ (NBC), WIVB-TV (CBS), WKBW-TV (ABC), WUTV (Fox), and WNED-TV (PBS). For additional fees cable subscribers can also watch WNYO-TV (MyNetworkTV) and WNLO (The CW). Many of these stations can be seen over the air throughout the Greater Toronto Area.

Toronto has seven times the population of the Buffalo market. In particular, WUTV and WNED rely heavily on viewership from Toronto; both have long identified as serving "Buffalo/Toronto," and also have sales offices in the city. More than half of WNED's members live in Toronto.

Most of Canada's over-the-air and cable television networks also have national operations based in Toronto; for more information, see List of Canadian television channels.

Radio

Toronto stations

AM

FM

Other stations

Numerous radio stations licensed to communities outside the City of Toronto are also marketed to the City of Toronto proper, as well as the rest of the Greater Toronto Area. This includes one American station.

AM

FM

Former stations

Please see former City of Toronto radio stations at the Canadian Communications Foundation.[2]

Print

Newspapers

National dailies

Headquarters of The Globe and Mail at the Globe and Mail Centre (left), and former HQ of the National Post (right). The two national dailies are both based in Toronto.

Local dailies

One Yonge Street from the Toronto Harbour. The building serves as the headquarters for the Toronto Star, the highest-circulating local newspaper in Canada.

Alternative

Community and weekly newspapers

Metroland Media Group is a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation which publishes the Toronto Star. Metroland publishes a series of weekly neighbourhood papers, some of which previously printed two or three times a week. They are distributed free of charge and have captured a large portion of the neighbourhood advertising flyer market. These newspapers are: Bloor West Villager, City Centre Mirror, East York/Beach Mirror, Etobicoke Guardian, North York Mirror, Parkdale-Liberty Villager, Scarborough Mirror and York Guardian.

Several independent community newspapers include the Town Crier and the Post City Magazines chain of monthly neighbourhood magazines, Beach Metro News, the Annex Gleaner, the Liberty Gleaner, West End Phoenix and the Marklander in the far west of Toronto.

Monthly broadsheet The Bulletin converted into an online-only outlet, now defunct.

L'Express and Le Métropolitain are French-language weekly newspapers.

Ethnic and multicultural newspapers

Caribbean media
Chinese media
Latin media

Student newspapers

Copies for the Excalibur, a student newspaper for York University.

Former newspapers

The Mail Building in Toronto c. 1870. It headquartered The Toronto Mail newspaper, which operated from 1872 to 1895, when it merged with Toronto Empire to form The Mail and Empire.

Magazines

Online-only

Book publishers

References

  1. ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2021-142, New specialty (Christian music) FM radio station in Scarborough, CRTC, April 28, 2021
  2. ^ Former radio stations in the City of Toronto Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Canadian Communications Foundation
  3. ^ Jamie Bradburn (17 March 2012). "The World of William Findlay Maclean". Torontoist. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  4. ^ Chris Powell (15 March 2016). "Foodism Toronto Launching Print Edition in September". Marketing magazine. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  5. ^ Steven Branco (8 July 2021). "Stamina Group Inc. and BAI Communications Partner to Provide Syndicated Content for the TCONNECT TTC Wi-Fi Captive Portal". Stamina Group. Retrieved 9 November 2021.