| URL | www.thegate.ca |
|---|---|
| Type of site | Online Entertainment Magazine |
| Owner | W. Andrew Powell |
| Launched | January, 2001 |
| Current status | Active |
TheGATE.ca, referred to as The GATE, is a Canadian online entertainment website that focuses on movies, music, television, video games, leisure travel and events.
Launched in January 2001, The GATE focuses on Canadian topics, in addition to major American events like the Academy Awards.
Major coverage highlights throughout the year include the Juno Awards, Canadian Music Fest, North by North East, and the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Founded in 2000 by W. Andrew Powell, The GATE covered only music until 2001 when the website expanded to cover movies, followed by television, and video games by late in 2002.
Between 2002 and 2004 The GATE was also produced as a small zine that was available in bars and restaurants in downtown Toronto.
Since 2001, Powell has represented The GATE as a guest entertainment expert on U8TV's Shower Hour, Much Music's Ed's Big Wham Bam, AM640's travel radio program Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Hamilton's CHAM 820 Nabuurs and Friends, and in Eye Weekly's Annual Cross-Canada Music Critics Poll.[1][2]
Notably in 2011, Canadian newspaper advertising for the opening weekend of the Walt Disney Pictures release Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides featured a quote from Powell, "Pirates is back and it's better than ever!"[3]
The GATE currently syndicates two weekly columns under the titles DVD Tuesday and Film Friday which are both carried by Lighthouse Media Group's SouthShoreNow.ca website,[4] which is the home for their weekly community newspaper The Bridgewater Bulletin. CFB Esquimalt's The Lookout newspaper[5] also publishes Film Friday on a bi-weekly basis.
TheGATE.ca is ranked in the top 12,000 most visited websites in Canada according to Alexa.[6]