Media in Kingston, Ontario
This is a list of media in Kingston, Ontario.
Radio
In addition to local outlets, radio and television stations from New York state (particularly the Watertown market) are readily available in Kingston. One such station, WLYK in Cape Vincent, New York, promotes itself as a Kingston station — and operates from studios in Kingston under a local management agreement — despite being officially licensed to an American community. The Queen's University campus station, CFRC-FM, is one of the oldest stations in the world, having been founded in 1922. [1] This station served as a commercial outlet until the establishment of CKWS-AM (now CKWS-FM) in 1942. Kingston's two legacy AM frequencies, 960 kHz (CKWS) and 1380 kHz (CKLC) are now dark after both stations moved to the FM band in the late 2000s.
Television
OTA channel | Virtual channel (PSIP) |
Cogeco | Call sign | Network | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 (VHF) | – | 3 | CIII-TV-2 | Global | Rebroadcaster of CIII-DT (Toronto);1 Transmitted from Bancroft |
6 (VHF) | – | 6 | CJOH-TV-6 | CTV | Rebroadcaster of CJOH-DT (Ottawa); Transmitted from Deseronto |
11 (VHF) | 11.1 | 10 | CKWS-DT | CTV (affiliate) | |
– | – | 13 | – | TVCogeco | Community channel for Cogeco subscribers |
1Nearest Global signal to Kingston; much of the city gets only a marginal over-the-air signal from CIII-TV-2.
The incumbent terrestrial cable provider in Kingston is Cogeco.
- The Heritage
- Kingston This Week
- Kingston Whig-Standard, Canada's oldest daily newspaper, founded in 1834
- The Queen's Journal