Media in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

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This is a list of media in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario . For stations licensed to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, see that city's article.

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Web

Online news sites such as SooToday.com, HockeyNewsNorth.com, SaultOnline.com and SaultSports.com have emerged in recent years, due in large part to news cutbacks at CTV Northern Ontario and the Sault Star.

Radio

The first radio station in Sault Ste. Marie was CJIC which signed on in 1934. It became CFYN in 1977 when the assets of the station were sold to Gilder Broadcasting. CKCY became the Canadian Sault's second radio station, signing on in 1955. Both AM stations shut down in 1992 as part of one of Canada's first local management agreements, entered into by Pelmorex Radio Network, the managing partner in this case, and Telemedia. The market's first FM station was CJIC in 1964, which later became CHAS in 1992. That same year, country station CJQM launched as CHAS' sister station, with both continuing to broadcast to the region. Two different tourist information stations have aired to this market, though neither currently air.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has aired CBC Radio One and Ici Radio-Canada Première to the Sault Ste. Marie market on CBSM-FM and CBON-18 since 1981 and 1982 respectively, while Sault Ste. Marie has had two Christian stations (CHIM-6 from 2001-2012 and CJTK-8 since September 2017.) Aside from the Timmins-based CHIM, all are repeated from Sudbury stations.

Sault Ste. Marie hosts one active internet radio station, The Borderline, which airs programming and music primarily devoted to regional musicians. Sault Ste. Marie was also the originating location of the internet rock radio station Energy Rock Radio before it relocated to British Columbia in 2011. In 2014, Village Media launched its own network of six internet radio stations dedicated to Sault Ste. Marie under the banner of VM Radio, though it ceased operations by 2017.

Although Sault Ste. Marie is the second largest city in Northeastern Ontario, it has fewer of its own radio stations than the smaller North Bay or Timmins markets do, because of its location within the broadcast range of the Sault Ste. Marie and Newberry, Michigan radio market. However, many of these Michigan stations broadcast content and advertising geared toward listeners in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, which is by far the largest city in their broadcast range.

FrequencyCall signBrandingFormatOwnerNotes
FM 88.1 CBON-FM-18 Ici Radio-Canada Première news/talk Canadian Broadcasting Corporation French; repeats CBON-FM, Sudbury
FM 89.5 CBSM-FM CBC Radio One news/talk Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Repeats CBCS-FM, Sudbury
FM 100.5 CHAS-FM Kiss 100.5 hot adult contemporary Rogers Media
FM 104.3 CJQM-FM Country 104.3 country music Rogers Media
FM 106.5 CJTK-FM-8 KFM Christian EternacomRepeats CJTK-FM, Sudbury

Defunct radio stations

Television

Sault Ste. Marie is home to one television station which is locally licensed, CHBX-TV. However, that station effectively acts as a satellite of Sudbury's CICI-TV as part of the CTV Northern Ontario system — the station's only direct local production consists of news reports which air as part of regional newscasts produced at the Sudbury station. The city formerly also had its own CBC Television affiliate, CJIC-TV, and a TVO transmitter at CICO-TV-20. However, CJIC-TV was acquired directly by the CBC in 2002, and became a straight analogue rebroadcaster of CBLT-DT from Toronto; the repeater for both CJIC-TV and CICO-TV-20 would close down on July 31, 2012, due to budget cuts. Sault Ste. Marie is not designated as a mandatory market for digital television conversion.

Sault Ste. Marie also easily receives American network affiliates over the air from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, all of which are rebroadcasters of downstate stations from Traverse City or Cadillac. These include the region's ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC affiliates, plus the specialty subchannels Comet, MeTV, Laff, QVC, and HSN. The religious Three Angels Broadcasting Network is also available over the air from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan with more powerful or amplified digital antennas.

OTA channelOTA virtual channel (PSIP) Shaw Cable Call signNetworkNotes
2 (VHF)11 CHBX-TV CTV De facto rebroadcaster of CICI-TV (Sudbury)
15 (UHF)12.13 CIII-DT-12 Global Rebroadcaster of CIII-DT-41 (Toronto)
38 (UHF)8 CHCH-TV-5 IndependentRebroadcaster of CHCH-DT (Hamilton)

Cable

The cable provider in Sault Ste. Marie is Shaw Cable, which broadcasts CHBX, CIII, and CHCH on basic cable packages in the area, as well as Shaw's own local access channel Shaw Spotlight, which features local programming, news reports, city council meetings and many live Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds games.

Shaw Cable no longer carries any of the local American network feeds, opting instead for satellite delivery (via Shaw Broadcast Services) of network affiliates from Detroit, save for WUHF, the FOX affiliate in Rochester, New York. Prior to the early 2000s, Shaw carried local channels WWUP (CBS) and WTOM (NBC), with ABC programs fed from Flint (WJRT-TV) and PBS programming from Marquette (WNMU).

Print

Other media include the daily broadsheet Sault Star (founded 1912) and weekly tabloid Sault This Week (founded in 1967) and both owned by Postmedia Network).

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CTV Northern Ontario, formerly known as MCTV, is a system of four television stations in Northern Ontario, Canada, owned and operated by the CTV Television Network, a division of Bell Media.

CICI-TV, VHF analogue channel 5, is a CTV owned-and-operated television station licensed to Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The station is owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc. CICI-TV's studios are located on Frood Road in Sudbury, and its transmitter is located near Huron Street. On cable, the station is available on Eastlink TV channel 4.

CHBX-TV, VHF analogue channel 2, is a CTV owned-and-operated television station licensed to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. The station is owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc. CHBX-TV's studios and transmitter are located on 6 Line East in Sault Ste. Marie.

The Pelmorex Radio Network was a system of Canadian radio stations in Northern Ontario, owned and operated by Pelmorex.

CKNC-TV was a television station in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The station was in operation from 1971 to 2002 as a private affiliate of CBC Television, and then continued until 2012 as a network-owned rebroadcaster of the network's Toronto affiliate CBLT.

CHNB-TV was a television station in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. The station was in operation from 1971 to 2002 as a private affiliate of CBC Television.

CHAS-FM Radio station in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

CHAS-FM is a radio station licensed to and serving Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. Owned and operated by Rogers Sports & Media, the station broadcasts an Adult contemporary format branded as Kiss 100.5.

CHUR-FM Radio station in North Bay, Ontario

CHUR-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format at 100.5 FM in North Bay, Ontario. The station uses the on-air brand KiSS 100.5.

CJTK-FM Christian radio station in Sudbury, Ontario

CJTK-FM is a Canadian radio station, which airs Christian music and programming at 95.5 FM in Sudbury, Ontario. The station is owned by Eternacom, and was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in 1997. The station is branded as KFM and uses one of the current slogans as "Today's Christian radio", "Northern Ontario's Christian Radio", "Music You Can Believe In" and "Christian Radio for Life".

CJQM-FM Radio station in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

CJQM-FM is an FM radio station in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. The station is owned and operated by Rogers Sports & Media and broadcasts a country format. With 100,000 watts power, CJQM's signal is one of the strongest in the Sault Ste. Marie area, and can be heard northward to Montreal River, Ontario and southward to Mackinaw City, Michigan and at times to Gaylord, Michigan.

WPBN-TV NBC affiliate in Traverse City, Michigan

WPBN-TV, virtual channel 7, is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Traverse City, Michigan, United States, serving the northern Lower and eastern Upper peninsulas of Michigan. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which also operates Traverse City-licensed ABC affiliate WGTU and Sault Ste. Marie-licensed full-time satellite WGTQ under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with owner Cunningham Broadcasting. However, Sinclair effectively owns WGTU/WGTQ as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The two stations share studios on M-72 just west of Traverse City; WPBN-TV's transmitter is located east of Kalkaska, Michigan. The station also operates a low-powered digital fill-in translator on UHF channel 50 from a transmitter south of Harrietta in the Manistee National Forest.

CJIC-TV was a television station in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. The station was in operation from 1955 to 2002 as a private affiliate of CBC Television.

CFYN was a Canadian AM radio station, which broadcast at 1050 kHz in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario from 1977 to 1992. From 1934 to 1977, the station broadcast with the call sign CJIC.

CFCL-TV was a television station in Timmins, Ontario, Canada. The station was in operation from 1956 to 2002 as a private affiliate of CBC Television.

Mid-Canada Communications Former Canadian media company

Mid-Canada Communications was a Canadian media company, which operated from 1980 to 1990. The company, a division of Northern Cable, had television and radio holdings in Northeastern Ontario.

CJWA-FM Radio station in Wawa, Ontario

CJWA-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 107.1 FM in Wawa, Ontario. The station broadcasts an adult contemporary format under the on-air brand JJAM or JJAM FM.

Huron Broadcasting was a Canadian radio and television broadcasting company, active in Sault Ste. Marie from 1976 to 1990.

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Media of Timmins, Ontario includes:

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