Media in Ottawa–Gatineau explained
The following media outlets are located in Canada's National Capital Region, serving the cities of Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec. The two cities, which are adjacent and each receive virtually all television and radio stations operating in either city, are considered a single media market.
Most of the region's FM and TV stations, regardless of which community they are officially licensed to, transmit from Camp Fortune in the Gatineau Hills. Other TV stations transmit from a tower located in Manotick, in the rural south portion of Ottawa. Ryan Tower, the former transmitter tower at Camp Fortune, was taken down on November 4, 2012 and its services and some antenna elements were transferred to a new, nearby tower.[1]
In addition to the market's local media services, Ottawa is also home to several national media operations, including CPAC (Canada's national legislature broadcaster), the digital political newspaper iPolitics, and the parliamentary bureau staff of all of Canada's major newsgathering organizations in television, radio and print. The city is also home to the legal headquarters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation although operational headquarters for English- and French-language services are located in Toronto and Montreal, respectively.
Radio
AM stations
FM stations
Other radio stations
The following radio stations that can also be heard in the National Capital Region:
- CHLK-FM 88.1 FM, a community radio station operating out of Perth, Ontario.
- VEF315 88.7 FM, a community radio station operating out of Vankleek Hill, Ontario. [2]
- CKS608 91.9 FM, an ultra-low power campus and internet radio station from La Cité collégiale in Ottawa. [3]
- VF8013 92.3 FM, a very low-power French-language Christian radio station located in Ottawa. Air times of this radio station may vary. [4] [5] [6]
- CHRC-FM 92.5 FM, a radio station operating out of Clarence-Rockland, Ontario.
- Radio-Hull 106.5 FM, a special events radio station based in Hull, Quebec. [7]
- CJRO-FM 107.7 FM, a very low-power community radio station in Carlsbad Springs, Ontario. CJRO-FM is also heard via low-power transmitters on 107.9 FM Vars/Sarsfield and 107.7 FM Embrun/Russell serving south-east rural Ottawa.
- Some Montreal AM radio stations can also be heard in the area, such as CKGM 690, CKAC 730, and CJAD 800 as well as CKOI-FM in the far eastern parts of Ottawa.
AM
- 540 AM CJSB, a Ottawa-based radio station that launched in 1982 until it left the air in 1994. The station relaunched on FM at 106.9 MHz as CKQB-FM.
- 970 AM CKCH, ceased operations in 1994.
- 1310 AM CIWW, a Rogers owned CityNews Radio station that shutdown on October 26, 2023. [8]
- 1350 AM CIRA-5, a Gatineau-based French language rebroadcaster of CIRA-FM Montreal ceased operations in early 2015.
- 1350 AM CHFO, a Gatineau-based French language community radio station from 2018 until it left the air in 2019.
- 1630 AM CHYW, a low-power tourist information radio station that operated from the Macdonald-Cartier International Airport from 2001 [9] but its uncertain when the station left the air. In 2005, 2012 and 2017, applications were submitted to the CRTC to operate new radio stations on 1630 kHz to serve Ottawa and Gatineau. Those applications were either denied or withdrawn. [10] [11] [12]
FM
- Mix FM, was an unlicensed radio station in the Ottawa area that operated on various frequencies, mostly 91.9 FM in 2009, until it was shut down in 2010.
- 96.5 CFDT-FM (east side) and 99.9 CFDT-FM-1 (west side), very low-power tourist information radio stations that served motorists along Highway 417. It is uncertain when or if these stations were ever in operation.[13] [14] [15]
- 96.5 FM was also used in 2002 for a special event radio programming at 96.5 MHz in Gatineau with the call sign CIRC.[16]
- CIIO-FM, operated over various frequencies on 104.7 FM,[17] [18] 99.7 FM[19] and 97.5, a tourist information station owned by Instant Information Services has been off the air since 2011.[20] Instant Information Services also operated CIIF-FM 97.5, also a former french-language tourist information station in Ottawa.
- 95.7 FM CKAV-FM-9, the local outlet of the Aboriginal Voices radio network; off the air since late 2014.
- CKO (CKO-1) 106.9 FM was the Ottawa affiliate of the national CKO all-news network which ceased operations in 1989.
Television
Despite being one of Canada's largest metropolitan areas, many of the "local" stations serving Ottawa–Gatineau are, in fact, based in the Greater Toronto Area. Notably, the country's #2 and #3 private-sector broadcast networks, Global and Citytv, respectively, rely on repeaters of their Toronto-based stations, not originating stations, to serve Ottawa viewers. Despite this, however, Ottawa–Gatineau is unique among Canadian television markets, as the only market in all of Canada which has terrestrial access to virtually the entire range of Canadian broadcast networks and systems in both English and French — the larger Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver media markets each lack over-the-air access to some of the services in their market's minority language. The sole exception is aboriginal network APTN, which only has broadcast coverage in the North, but is carried on cable in Ottawa and indeed throughout the country.
Of the fourteen stations available over the air, only six actually originate from the area and provide local news. These six stations are currently owned by only three companies, with two stations apiece: the CBC (with stations for its English and French networks), RNC Media (which owns the local affiliates of the two private French-language networks, TVA and Noovo), and Bell Media (which owns stations associated with its CTV and CTV 2 networks).
Both of the CBC stations carry local evening newscasts in their respective languages. The two Bell Media-owned stations, while nominally maintaining separate news operations, do not currently compete against each other for local news; CTV airs local newscasts at midday and in the evening, while CTV 2 only broadcasts a morning newscast. As for the RNC Media stations, the TVA affiliate carries a local evening newscast, whereas the Noovo affiliate only airs short local news updates.
| OTA virtual channel (PSIP) | Actual channel |
(Ottawa) | Vidéotron
(Gatineau) | Call sign | Network | Language | Transmitter location | Notes |
|---|
| 4.1 | 25 (UHF) | 8 | 6 | | CBC Television | EN | Camp Fortune, Gatineau | |
| 6.1 | 14 (UHF) | 3 | 8 | | Global | EN | Camp Fortune, Gatineau | Rebroadcaster of CIII-DT (Toronto) |
| 9.1 | 33 (UHF) | 5 | 2 | | | FR | Camp Fortune, Gatineau | |
| 11.1 | 22 (UHF) | 18 | 11 | | Independent | EN | Manotick, Ottawa | |
| 13.1 | 16 (UHF) | 7 | 7 | CJOH-DT | CTV | EN | Camp Fortune, Gatineau | |
| 14.1 | 20 (UHF) | 14 | 240 | CJMT-DT-2 | Omni Television
("Omni 2") | EN | Manotick, Ottawa | Rebroadcaster of CJMT-DT (Toronto) |
| 15.1 | 15 (UHF) | 25 | 55 | CITS-DT-1 | Yes TV | EN | Manotick, Ottawa | Rebroadcaster of CITS-DT (Hamilton) |
| 24.1 | 24 (UHF) | 2 | 10 | CICO-DT-24 | TVOntario | EN | Camp Fortune, Gatineau | Rebroadcaster of CICA-DT (Toronto) |
| 30.1 | 30 (UHF) | 69 | 3 | CIVO-DT | Télé-Québec | FR | Camp Fortune, Gatineau | Rebroadcaster of CIVM-DT (Montreal) |
| 32.1 | 32 (UHF) | 10 | 4 | CHOT-DT | TVA | FR | Camp Fortune, Gatineau | |
| 34.1 | 34 (UHF) | 11 | 5 | CFGS-DT | Noovo | FR | Camp Fortune, Gatineau | |
| 43.1 | 35 (UHF) | 6 | 12 | CHRO-DT-43 | CTV 2 | EN | Manotick, Ottawa | |
| 60.1 | 27 (UHF) | 16 | 239 | CFMT-DT-2 | Omni Television
("Omni 1") | EN | Manotick, Ottawa | Rebroadcaster of CFMT-DT (Toronto) |
| 65.1 | 17 (UHF) | 15 | 13 | CITY-DT-3 | Citytv | EN | Manotick, Ottawa | Rebroadcaster of CITY-DT (Toronto) |
| - | - | 22 | - | - | Rogers TV | EN | - | Rogers Cable community channel |
| - | - | 23 | - | - | TV Rogers | FR | - | Rogers Cable community channel |
| - | - | - | 9 | - | MAtv | FR | - | Vidéotron community channel | |
Defunct television stations
- CFVO-TV channel 30—the region's first TVA affiliate; broadcast from 1974 to 1977
- CKXT-DT-3 channel 20—local repeater of CKXT-DT Toronto; broadcast from 2008 to 2011
Newspapers
Daily
Weekly
College and university
Community
- Barrhaven Independent
- Barrhaven Weekender
- Canada Chinese News
- Capital Chinese News
- Centretown Buzz
- Centretown News
- Cumberland Communiqué
- Ecolatino (Latin/Italian community)
- The Epoch Times (Chinese Edition)
- Glebe Report
- Hogs Back News
- Il Postino (Italian community)
- Image
- Kanata Kourier Standard (Now defunct)
- Kitchissippi Times
- La Nouvelle
- Mainstreeter
- Manor Park Chronicle
- Manotick Messenger
- The Manotick Review
- The Mike on a Mic Show
- Muslim Link
- Nepean This Week
- New Edinburgh News
- Newswest
- L'Ora di Ottawa (Italian community)
- Orleans Star
- The OSCAR
- The Ottawa News
- Ottawa Jewish Bulletin
- Ottawa South Weekender
- Ottawa This Week (various)
- Ottawa Weekend Chinese News
- Packet
- Queenswood Newsliner
- Riverviews
- The Spectrum
- Stittsville News
- Stittsville Weekend Signal
- Vistas
- West Carleton Review
- Weekly Journal
Other publications
Other media
External links
Notes and References
- http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/historic-local-radio-tv-transmitter-tower-taken-down-1.1024124 "Historic local radio/TV transmitter tower taken down"
- http://vankleekfm.com vankleekfm.com
- https://www.labradio.ca www.labradio.ca
- https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1997/DB97-44.htm Decision CRTC 97-44
- https://broadcasting-history.ca/radio/radio-stations/ontario/ontario-ottawa-valley/vf8013-fm/ VF8013-FM, French/Religious, Ottawa Fabrique de la Paroisse du Sacré-Coeur du diocèse d'Ottawa
- https://fccdata.org/?facid=&call=VF8013&ccode=2&latd=&lond=&city=&state=&country=US&zip=&party=&party_type=LICEN&fac_type=ALL VF8013
- https://www.radiohull.ca/ www.radiohull.ca
- https://m.soundcloud.com/dan_mellon/ciww-am-1310-khz-ottawa-final-sign-off-oct-27th-2023-9am-edt CIWW - AM 1310 kHz Ottawa - FINAL Sign Off Oct. 27th 2023 9am EDT
- https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2001/db2001-67.htm Decision CRTC 2001-67
- https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2005/pb2005-64.htm Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2005-64
- https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2012/2012-231.htm Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-231
- http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2017/2017-227.htm Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2017-227
- http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1989/DB89-263.htm Decision CRTC 89-263
- http://www.w9wi.com/articles/fmstatio.htm New Canadian FM and technical changes since 18th Edition FM Atlas
- https://broadcasting-history.ca/radio/radio-stations/ontario/ontario-ottawa-valley/ Former Ottawa Valley Radio Stations
- http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2002/db2002-71.htm Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2002-71
- https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2005/db2005-256.htm Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2005-256
- https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2005/db2005-601.htm Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2005-601
- https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2007/db2007-75.htm Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2007-75
- https://broadcasting-history.ca/radio/radio-stations/ontario/ontario-ottawa-valley/ciio-fm/ CIIO-FM
