This is a list of media in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador .
St. John's is currently the only Canadian city served by radio stations whose call letters do not all begin with the letter C. The ITU prefix VO was assigned to the Dominion of Newfoundland before the province joined Canadian Confederation in 1949, and three AM stations kept their existing call letters; the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland's VONF, however, was taken over by CBC Radio and adopted the new call sign CBN. However, radio stations in St. John's which went to air after 1949 use the same range of prefixes (CF–CK) currently in use elsewhere in Canada, with the exception of VOCM-FM, which was permitted to adopt the VOCM callsign because of its corporate association with the AM station that already bore that callsign. VO also remains in use in amateur radio.
OTA virtual channel (PSIP) | OTA channel | Rogers Cable | Call sign | Network | Notes |
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2.1 | 2 (VHF) | 22 | CHPI-DT | Uvagut TV | |
4.1 | 4 (VHF) | 12 | CBFJ-TV | Ici Radio-Canada Télé | |
8.1 | 8 (VHF) | 3 | CBNT-DT | CBC Television | |
12.1 | 12 (VHF) | 7 | CHTG-TV | APTN | Relayed broadcast transmitter of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network |
16.1 | 16 (UHF) | 4 | VOTG-DT | TG4 | Timeshift simulcast feed |
21.1 | 21 (UHF) | 5 | CJON-DT | Independent | Sublicenses programming from CTV, Global, and Yes TV |
27.1 | 27 (UHF) | 14 | VRTO-TV | RTP Internacional | Timeshift simulcast feed |
32.1 | 32 (UHF) | 25 | VOPR-TV | Independent | Branded on-air as “Newfoundland Local Media” |
43.1 | 43 (UHF) | 31 | CH0138 | Record | Timeshift simulcast feed |
59.1 | 59 (VHF) | 23 | CH7492 | TV Globo | |
61.1 | 61 (UHF) | 39 | VOHA-DT | House of Assembly Channel | |
64.1 | 64 (UHF) | 34 | CJPR-TV | Inuit TV | |
– | – | 9 | – | Rogers TV | Community channel for Rogers Cable subscribers |
Rogers Cable has its provincial headquarters in St. John’s and is the incumbent cable provider in the city. Its community channel Rogers TV airs local shows such as Out of the Fog and One Chef One Critic. Network television in the United States is piped in from Boston and Detroit via Rogers Cable.
AllNewfoundlandLabrador.com is an online newspaper which covers business news from around the province. [4] [5] The subscription news service publishes five days a week and was launched in 2016 by sister publication allNovaScotia which is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The two publications have a newsroom staff of 25 reporters, editors and columnists.[ citation needed ]
Present-day telecommunications in Canada include telephone, radio, television, and internet usage. In the past, telecommunications included telegraphy available through Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.
St. John's is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. The city spans 446.04 km2 (172.22 sq mi) and is the easternmost city in North America. The closest European settlement is Fajã Grande, Azores, Portugal, about 2,000 km (1,200 mi) away.
VOCM is an AM radio station in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, broadcasting at 590 kHz. Owned by Stingray Group, VOCM first went on the air on October 19, 1936. Through the "VOCM/Big Land FM Radio Network" of stations owned by Stingray, VOCM programming is carried throughout the province.
Newfoundland and Labrador is an Atlantic Canadian province with a folk musical heritage based on the Irish, English and Cornish traditions.
VOAR-FM is a Canadian radio station, which airs a Christian radio format. It is licensed to Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador, and serves the St. John's metropolitan area. VOAR is owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Newfoundland and Labrador. Its radio studios and offices are on Topsail Road in Mount Pearl.
VOWR is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The station is operated by the Wesley United Church of Canada with studios and offices at 101 Patrick Street.
The St. John's Maple Leafs were a minor ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They played in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, at Memorial Stadium from 1991 to 2001, and at Mile One Stadium from 2001 to 2005. The team was also colloquially known as the "Baby Leafs" after their parent NHL team, the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Snook, the alter-ego of Pete Soucy, is a Newfoundland comedian and actor. He is the face of NLClassifieds.com.
The National War Memorial in Downtown St. John's is the most elaborate of all the post World War I monuments in Newfoundland and Labrador. It was erected at King's Beach on Water Street where, in 1583, Sir Humphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland for England. It was formally unveiled on Memorial Day, 1 July 1924 by Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig.
VOCM-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 97.5 MHz from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Owned by Stingray Group, the station is branded as 97.5 K-Rock and broadcasts a classic rock format, although some 1990s and 2000s rock songs have become part of the mix.
CHOZ-FM is a Canadian radio station based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Its main St. John's transmitter broadcasts at 94.7 MHz, with additional transmitters located throughout the island. The station, known as OZ FM, is one of the various media properties of the Stirling family; this includes local television station CJON-DT.
The Telegram is a weekly newspaper published Fridays in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, though now printed outside the province.
The Muse, successor to the Memorial Times, began publishing in 1950 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, as an unnamed paper. That paper held a contest to choose a new name, the winner being a professor who named the paper after all of the following:
The Herder Memorial Trophy, or Herder, is the championship trophy to be awarded annually to the senior ice hockey champions of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The original cast silver trophy was donated in 1935 by The Evening Telegram newspaper on behalf of the Herder family, as a memorial to five brothers who played hockey in St. John's.
CHMR-FM is a campus radio station broadcasting on the campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada at 93.5 MHz, Rogers Cable channel 942 and Aliant TV channel 825.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, is the largest population centre in Atlantic Canada and contains the region's largest collection of media outlets.
Earle McCurdy is a former leader of the Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party and a former labour leader in Newfoundland and Labrador. He was president of the Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union from 1993 to 2014, succeeding founding president Richard Cashin. Previously, McCurdy was the union's secretary-treasurer for 13 years, from 1980 to 1993.
William Neil Rowe, is a former politician, lawyer, broadcaster, and writer in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Call signs in Canada are official identifiers issued to the country's radio and television stations. Assignments for broadcasting stations are made by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), while amateur stations receive their call signs from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. Conventional radio and television broadcasting stations assignments are generally three, four or five letters long and almost exclusively use "C" call signs; with a few exceptions noted below, the "V" calls are restricted to specialized uses such as amateur radio.