Media in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

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This is a list of media in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador .

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Radio

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 (CFCK) 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.

FrequencyCall signBrandingFormatOwnerNotes
590 AM VOCM 590 VOCM news/talk/classic hits Stingray Digital Group Inc.
640 AM CBN CBC Radio One news/talk Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
800 AM VOWR VOWR Christian radio Wesley United Church
930 AM CJYQ New Country Country music Stingray Digital Group Inc.
88.5 FM CBN-1-FM CBC Radio One news/talk Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
93.5 FM CHMR-FM campus radio Memorial University of Newfoundland Students' Union
94.7 FM CHOZ-FM OZFM hot adult contemporary Newfoundland Broadcasting
96.7 FM VOAR-FM Lighthouse FM Christian radio Seventh-day Adventist Church in Newfoundland & Labradorlicensed to Mount Pearl
97.5 FM VOCM-FM 97.5 K-Rock classic rock Stingray Digital Group Inc.
99.1 FM CKIX-FM Hot 99.1 FM Contemporary hit radio Stingray Digital Group Inc.
101.1 FM CKSJ-FM Coast 101.1 classic hits Coast Broadcasting
101.9 FM CBAX-FM-2 Ici Musique public music Canadian Broadcasting Corporation French
105.9 FM CBAF-FM-17 Ici Radio-Canada Première news/talk Canadian Broadcasting Corporation French
106.9 FM CBN-FM CBC Music public music Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Television

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8.18 (VHF)3 CBNT-DT CBC Television
21.121 (UHF)5 CJON-DT Independent Sublicenses programming from CTV, Global, and Yes TV

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.

Print

Online

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 19 reporters, editors and columnists.[ citation needed ]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">VOCM (AM)</span> Radio station in St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">VOAR-FM</span> Christian radio station in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">VOWR</span> Radio station in St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador

VOWR is a radio station in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The station is operated by the Wesley United Church of Canada and operates a mix of 30% religious programming and 70% secular programming, including classical, folk, country, oldies, military/marching band, adult standards, beautiful music and music from the 1940s through the 1970s, interviews and informational programs. VOWR has several information based programs that are of interest to its core demographic including Consumer Reports, a gardening show, the 50+ Radio Show and many others of a wide range of subjects.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">VOCM-FM</span> Radio station in St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">CHOZ-FM</span> Radio station in St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador

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.

<i>The Telegram</i> Canadian daily newspaper

The Telegram is a daily newspaper published weekdays and Saturdays in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">CHMR-FM</span> Radio station at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador

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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.

References

  1. "The Telegram – St. John's, NL : Newfoundland, Canada's Oldest City". TheTelegram.com. Retrieved 2008-06-06.
  2. "The Independent". TheIndependent.ca. Retrieved 2014-05-26.
  3. "The Daily News". mun.ca. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  4. "allNewfoundlandLabrador" . Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  5. Bradshaw, James (22 February 2016). "Subscription news site AllNovaScotia expands to Newfoundland". Globe and Mail. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 12 April 2016.