Media in Greater Sudbury

This is a list of media outlets in the city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

As the largest city in

As of 2009, all radio stations in Sudbury currently operate on the FM dial.^[1] Sudbury's last AM radio station, 790 CIGM, turned off its transmitter on September 30, 2009, ending more than 70 years of AM radio broadcasting in the city.

History

Sudbury was home to several notable broadcasting firsts in Canada.

• CKBB
  (2001–2005)
• CKSO (2002–2006; not to be confused with earlier stations which are still in operation under different call signs)

Early radio in Sudbury

CKSO radio signed on as Sudbury's first radio station in 1935, but prior to CKSO's sign-on in the 1930s there was a radio station named CFCR under the name of the licensee "Laurentide Air Service, Ltd.", operating on the frequency of 410 metres as of 1924. As of date, there's unknown historical information on this radio station, when it began broadcasting or ceased broadcasting, however, according to the Canadian Communications Foundation page, it's believed the station began broadcasting in 1923 up until around 1925.^[5][6][7]

Out-of-market radio

The out-of-market CKNR from Elliot Lake, CJJM from Espanola and CFRM and CHAW from Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands can be heard in parts of the city, particularly in the western half of Walden.

In 2008, CFRM applied to the

CBCS, CBON and CJTK have repeaters in Espanola and on Manitoulin Island. Most of the city's commercial radio stations, however, are able to serve this region directly from their Sudbury transmitters, due to their higher effective radiated power.

Television

The city is served by only one conventional broadcast station which originates programming locally. The remainder are rebroadcasters of stations from other markets.

Greater Sudbury did not fall into the category of major broadcasting markets, which was the benchmark for the CRTC to force broadcasters to convert to digital on August 31, 2011.

Defunct television stations

On August 1, 2012, the CBC, TVOntario and TFO networks shut down their analogue OTA rebroadcasters. Below is the list of transmitters affected by the shutdown. In all cases, the local cable company continues to carry the originating signal on the same channel.

Cable

The

Due to the region's large francophone population, Sudbury is one of the few cities in Ontario whose cable provider carries an affiliate of the Quebec television network Noovo, which has only voluntary carriage rights outside of Quebec, as part of its basic cable package. In most of Ontario, that network is distributed only as part of a subscription digital cable package.

Print

Sudbury's daily newspaper is the

A twice-weekly community newspaper, Northern Life, was launched in the 1970s by Laurentian Media Group. It remained in operation as a print title until 2020, when it was acquired by Village Media; the new owners have ceased publication of the paper edition, but its website Sudbury.com remains in operation as a digital-only publication similar to Village Media's existing community news websites.^[9] The acquisition also included the magazine Northern Ontario Business.

There are also student newspapers at the city's postsecondary institutions: Lambda and L'Orignal déchaîné at Laurentian University, The Shield at Cambrian College and L'Étudiant at Collège Boréal.

Sudbury Coffee News is a restaurant publication delivered to restaurants, coffee shops, hotels and other establishments in the Sudbury area.

In the early 1960s, the city saw a "newspaper war" between two startup weekly newspapers, the Sudbury Sun and the Sudbury Scene. The Sun, a publication of Northland Publishers, was out of business by 1962, and filed a competition lawsuit against the Scene, a division of Thomson Corporation which owned the Sudbury Star at the time, alleging that the Scene had deliberately undercut the Sun's advertising rates to protect Thomson's monopoly on English-language periodical publication in the city.^[10] The federal trade practices commission ruled in Thomson's favour.^[10]

A francophone