Media in Ottawa-Gatineau

The following media outlets are located in Canada's National Capital Region, serving the cities of Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec. The two cities are considered a single media market.

Most of the region's FM and TV stations, regardless of which community they are officially licensed to, transmitted from the Ryan Tower at Camp Fortune in the Gatineau Hills. Other TV stations transmit from a tower located south of Ottawa. Ryan Tower was taken down on Sunday, November 4, 2012 and its services and some antenna elements were transferred to a new, nearby tower.^[1]

Radio

¹ On January 1, 2009, CHU moved its signal from 7335 kHz to 7850 kHz.

Defunct radio stations

Ottawa had two very low-power tourist information radio stations which operated on the following frequencies:

• 96.5 CFDT-FM (east)
• 99.9 CFDT-FM-1 (west)

These two stations which were owned by an unknown company were deleted in the late 1990s, early 2000s. It is uncertain when these stations signed on or if they were ever in operation.^[2][3]

Television

Despite being one of Canada's largest metropolitan areas, many of the "local" stations serving Ottawa-Gatineau are in fact based in southern Ontario, usually Toronto. Notably, the country's second-most-watched network, Global, relies on its Toronto-based station 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 sole exceptions are aboriginal network APTN (which only has broadcast coverage in the North, but is carried on cable in Ottawa and indeed throughout the country) and Joytv (a religious system similar to CTS, which is available locally).

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 V), and Bell Media (which owns stations associated with its CTV and CTV Two 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 Two only broadcasts a morning newscast. As for the RNC Media stations, the TVA affiliate carries a local evening newscast, whereas the V affiliate only airs short news updates.

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

• 24 Hours
• Le Droit
• Metro
• Ottawa Citizen
• Ottawa Sun

College and university

• Algonquin Times
• The Charlatan
• Fulcrum
• La Rotonde
• The Otis

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
• 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

• Mundo en Espanol Newspaper
• City Journal
• The Epoch Times (English Edition)
• Faces Magazine
• Hill Times
• To Be
• Ottawa Business Journal
• Ottawa Magazine
• Ottawa Life Magazine
• Ottawa Natural Magazine
• Capital Xtra!
• UpFront
• Voir
• Diplomat Magazine

Other media

• CPAC
• Parliament Hill offices of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation corporate headquarters
• Head office of Canadian Geographic
• rabble.ca
• Apt613.ca
• OttawaJazzScene.ca
• www.OttawaRickshaws.ca Ottawa Blog

References

External links

• East Ontario, West Quebec Media List with contact data, mapped by Postcodes and Areas

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