Media in Brandon, Manitoba

This is a list of media in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.

Radio stations

Frequency	Call sign	Branding	Format	Owner	Notes
FM 91.5	CKLQ-FM	Q Country 91.5	Country
FM 92.7	CBWS-FM	CBC Music	public music	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation	rebroadcasts CBW-FM Winnipeg
FM 94.7	CKLF-FM	Star FM	Hot AC	Riding Mountain Broadcasting
FM 96.1	CKX-FM	Bounce 96.1	Adult hits	Bell Media Radio
FM 97.9	CBWV-FM	CBC Radio One	news/information	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation	rebroadcasts CBW Winnipeg
FM 99.5	CKSB-8-FM	Ici Radio-Canada Première	French news/information	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation	rebroadcasts CKSB Winnipeg
FM 101.1	CKXA-FM	Pure Country 101	Country	Bell Media Radio	Also broadcasts TSN 1290 feed of Winnipeg Jets games
FM 106.5	CJJJ-FM	CJ106	campus radio	Assiniboine Community College

Brandon University has a closed-circuit campus radio station, which uses the informal call sign "CQBU", but this station does not currently broadcast on terrestrial radio.

Interlake Broadcast Group has an Internet-only radio station based in Brandon, playing an Adult Contemporary format. The station broadcasts 24/7 at channel1radio.com.

Television

All local aerial television in Brandon are analogue

rebroadcasters of stations from Winnipeg. The first DTV channel is expected to be CKND-DT-2 in October, 2013:^[1]

OTA Analogue Channel	PSIP (OTA Digital Channel)	Westman Cable channel	Call sign	Network	Notes
2	2.1 (9^[1])	9	CKND-TV-2	Global	Transmitter located near Minnedosa. CKND-DT-2 expected to begin transmission in October, 2013.^[1]
		6	CBWT-DT	CBC	No longer available over-the-air.^[2]
4		7	CKYB-TV	CTV	Transmitter located near Brandon.
		13	CBWFT-10	Radio-Canada	No longer available over-the-air.^[2]

Cable television in Brandon is served by Westman Cable, which operates a local

community channel, WCGtv

, on cable channel 12.

Until 2009, Brandon had only one locally based terrestrial television station,

CTVglobemedia. CKX-TV closed down on October 2, 2009, after a deal to sell the station to an investor fell through. CBC service in Brandon is still available on Westman Cable channel 6, which was taken over by CBWT

, after the closure of CKX-TV.

Print

Brandon has three regular local newspapers. The

Brandon Sun is a daily paper, News in a Minute is a daily coffee shop paper and the Westman Journal

is a weekly paper. The Sun also produces two "community" editions that are distributed throughout Westman on Thursdays.

Students at Brandon University are served by the student newspaper The Quill, while Assiniboine Community College students are served by the monthly Student Focus newsletter.

The nominal Winnipeg edition of The Globe and Mail was at one time printed in Brandon.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-282. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
^ ^a ^b Shutdown of over-the-air analogue televisiontransmission — July 31, 2012. Retrieved August 20, 2013.

[:1-1] Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-282. Retrieved August 20, 2013.

[:0-2] Shutdown of over-the-air analogue televisiontransmission — July 31, 2012. Retrieved August 20, 2013.

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