Media in Toronto

This is a list of television and radio stations along with a list of media outlets in and around Toronto, Ontario including the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Toronto is Canada's largest media market, and the fourth-largest market in North America (behind New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago).

TV stations

OTA virtual channel (PSIP)	OTA channel	Rogers Cable	Bell Fibe TV	Call Sign	Network	Notes
3.1	10 (VHF)	20	202	CKVR-DT	CTV Two	Transmitted from Barrie
5.1	20 (UHF)	6	205	CBLT-DT	CBC Television
9.1	9 (VHF)	8	201	CFTO-DT	CTV
11.1	15 (UHF)	11	211	CHCH-DT	Independent	Transmitted from Hamilton
19.1	19 (UHF)	2	209	CICA-DT	TVOntario	Provincial public educational broadcaster
25.1	25 (UHF)	12	101	CBLFT-DT	Ici Radio-Canada Télé	Toronto's only OTA French language station.
36.1	36 (UHF)	9	651	CITS-DT	Yes TV	Religious/family entertainment, transmitted from Hamilton
40.1	40 (UHF)	14	207	CJMT-DT	Omni Television (OMNI 2)	Multicultural (Africa/Asia/Middle East), sister station to CFMT
41.1	41 (UHF)	3	203	CIII-DT-41	Global
47.1	47 (UHF)	4	206	CFMT-DT	Omni Television (OMNI 1)	Multicultural (America/Caribbean/Europe), sister station to CJMT
57.1	44 (UHF)	7	204	CITY-DT	City
–	–	10	–	–	Rogers TV	Community channel for Rogers Cable subscribers
–	–	13	145	–	TFO	Provincial Franco-Ontarian public educational broadcaster
–	–	24	503	–	CP24	24-hour local news channel
–	–	–	1	–	TV1	Community channel for Bell Fibe TV subscribers

The incumbent cable provider in the Toronto area is Rogers Cable, which originally secured the cable franchise for most of the pre-amalgamation city of Toronto, and later purchased the systems in surrounding areas. Since 2010, Bell Fibe TV (an IPTV terrestrial service operated by Rogers' rival Bell Canada) has been available in most neighbourhoods in the Greater Toronto Area. Independent IPTV television services such as Vmedia and Zazeen have also become available.

American network affiliates on Toronto cable are piped in from Buffalo, New York, including WGRZ (NBC), WIVB (CBS), WKBW-TV (ABC), WUTV (Fox), and WNED-TV (PBS). Digital cable subscribers can also watch WNYO-TV (MyNetworkTV) and WNLO (The CW). Many of these stations can be seen over the air throughout the Greater Toronto Area.

Toronto has seven times the population of the Buffalo market. In particular, WUTV and WNED rely heavily on viewership from Toronto; both have long identified as serving "Buffalo/Toronto," and also have sales offices in the city. More than half of WNED's members live in Toronto.

Most of Canada's cable television networks also have national operations based in Toronto; for more information, see List of Canadian television channels. See Digital television in Canada for information relating to the transition to HDTV in Canada.

Radio

Toronto stations

AM

Frequency	Call sign	Branding	Format	Owner	Notes
AM 590	CJCL	Sportsnet 590 The Fan	sports	Rogers Media
AM 640	CFMJ	AM 640	talk	Corus Entertainment
AM 680	CFTR	680 News	news	Rogers Media
AM 740	CFZM	AM 740	pop standards	MZ Media Inc.
AM 860	CJBC	Ici Radio-Canada Première	public news/talk	CBC	French
AM 1010	CFRB	Newstalk 1010	news/talk	Bell Media
AM 1050	CHUM	TSN Radio 1050	sports radio	Bell Media
AM 1430	CHKT	Fairchild Radio	multilingual	Fairchild Radio
AM 1540	CHIN	CHIN Radio	multilingual	CHIN Radio/TV International	Rebroadcaster at 91.9 FM. Station created by Johnny Lombardi
AM 1610	CHHA	Voces Latinas	Spanish community station	San Lorenzo Latin American Community Centre
AM 1690	CHTO		multilingual	Canadian Hellenic Toronto Radio

FM

Frequency	Call sign	Branding	Format	Owner	Notes
FM 88.1	CIND-FM	Indie 88	indie rock	Rock 95 Broadcasting Ltd./Central Ontario Broadcasting	Approved by the CRTC on September 12, 2012, on CKLN-FM's former frequency
FM 88.9	CIRV		multilingual	Frank Alvarez	used by Fairchild Radio for FM coverage
FM 89.5	CIUT	University of Toronto Community Radio	campus/community	University of Toronto campus radio
FM 90.3	CJBC	Ici Musique	public music	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation	French
FM 91.1	CJRT	JAZZ-FM91	jazz/public	CJRT-FM Inc.
FM 91.9	CHIN-1	CHIN Radio	multilingual	CHIN Radio/TV International	Rebroadcaster of CHIN (AM), not to be confused with CHIN-FM
FM 92.5	CKIS	KISS 92.5	CHR	Rogers Media
FM 93.5	CFXJ	FLOW 93.5	Classic hip hop	Newcap Radio
FM 94.1	CBL	CBC Radio 2	public music	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
FM 95.9	CJKX-FM-2	KX96	country	Durham Radio	Rebroadcaster of CJKX-FM Ajax
FM 96.3	CFMZ	Classical 96.3	classical music	MZ Media Inc. (Moses Znaimer)
FM 96.9	CKHC	Radio Humber	campus radio	Humber College
FM 97.3	CHBM	boom 97.3	adult hits	Newcap Radio
FM 98.1	CHFI	98.1 CHFI	adult contemporary	Rogers Media
FM 98.7	CKFG	G98.7	Urban AC/Caribbean	Intercity Broadcasting
FM 99.1	CBLA	CBC Radio One	public news/talk	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
FM 99.9	CKFM	99-9 Virgin Radio	CHR	Bell Media
FM 100.7	CHIN	CHIN Radio	multilingual	CHIN Radio/TV International
FM 101.3	CJSA	Diversity FM	multilingual	Diversity Media Group
FM 103.9	CIRR	103.9 PROUD FM	LGBT community radio	Evanov Communications
FM 104.5	CHUM	104.5 CHUM FM	Hot AC	Bell Media
FM 105.1	CHOQ	Radio-Toronto	Franco-Ontarian community	Cooperative Radio-Toronto	French
FM 105.5	CHRY	VIBE 105-5	York University campus radio	Board of Directors of CHRY Community Radio, Inc.
FM 107.1	CILQ	Q107	Active rock	Corus Entertainment

Other stations

Numerous radio stations licensed to communities outside the City of Toronto are also marketed to the City of Toronto proper, as well as the rest of the Greater Toronto Area. This includes one American station.

AM

Frequency	Call sign	Branding	Format	Owner	Location	Notes
AM 530	CIAO		multilingual	Evanov Communications	Brampton
AM 770	WTOR		multicultural	Birach Broadcasting Corporation	Youngstown, New York
AM 1250	CJYE	Joy 1250	Christian radio	Trafalgar Broadcasting Ltd.	Oakville
AM 1320	CJMR	The Voice of the City	multilingual	Trafalgar Broadcasting Ltd.	Mississauga
AM 1580	CKDO		oldies	Durham Radio	Oshawa	CKDO has a rebroadcaster at 107.7 FM.
AM 1650	CINA		multicultural	Neeti Prakash Ray	Mississauga

FM

Frequency	Call sign	Branding	Format	Owner	Location	Notes
FM 88.5	CKDX	Jewel 88.5	pop standards	Evanov Communications	Newmarket
FM 90.7	CFU758	RAV-FM	high school radio/community	Vaughan Secondary School	Thornhill
FM 91.9	CKC455	CFRE	campus radio	University of Toronto at Mississauga	Mississauga
FM 95.3	CING	Fresh 95.3	CHR	Corus Entertainment	Hamilton
FM 102.1	CFNY	102.1 The Edge	modern rock	Corus Entertainment	Brampton
FM 102.9	CKLH	102.9 K-Lite	adult contemporary	Bell Media	Hamilton
FM 103.5	CIDC	Z103.5	CHR	Evanov Communications	Orangeville
FM 105.9	CFMS	The Region	multilingual	Bhupinder Bola (OBCI)	Markham
FM 105.9	CJVF-FM		multilingual	Subanasiri Vaithilingam (OBCI)	Scarborough
FM 107.9	CJXY	Y108	active rock	Corus Entertainment	Burlington

Former stations

Please see former City of Toronto radio stations at the Canadian Communications Foundation.

• CFBN
• CHEV
• CKAV-FM
• CKLN-FM
• CKRG-FM

Print

Newsstand at Yonge and Queen, 1922

Newspapers

National dailies

• The Globe and Mail
• National Post

Local dailies

• 24 Hours — owned by Sun Media
• CanIndia News
• El Centro - Spanish
• Corriere Canadese - Italian; appears not to be publishing print editions
• Korea Times - Korean
• Metro — formerly Metro Today, an amalgamation of Metro and GTA Today
• Ming Pao Daily News (明報) - traditional Chinese characters, with a moderate preference towards Cantonese in transliterations
• Panj Pani - Punjabi
• El Popular - Spanish; appears not to be publishing print editions
• Sing Tao Daily (星島日報) - traditional Chinese characters, with a moderate preference towards Cantonese in transliterations
• South Asian Observer
• Today Daily news (現代日報) - traditional Chinese characters
• Toronto Standard - appears not to be publishing print editions
• Toronto Star
• Toronto Sun
• The Weekly Voice - Punjabi and Hindi news
• World Journal (世界日報) - traditional Chinese characters, with a heavy preference towards Mandarin, especially as spoken in Taiwan, in transliterations

Alternative

• Exclaim!
• Eye Weekly / The Grid - defunct
• NOW Magazine
• Toronto Special - appears defunct
• Xtra! - last print edition February 2015

Other alternative

• C C Times (加中時報) - simplified and traditional Chinese characters, with a moderate preference towards Mandarin as spoken in mainland China in transliterations; free weekly
• China Today Wen Wei Po (文匯報) - simplified Chinese characters
• Chinese Canadian Voice (社区報) - traditional Chinese characters; monthly
• Global Chinese Press (環球華報) - traditional Chinese characters; free weekly
• New Star Times (星星生活報) - traditional Chinese characters; free weekly
• Weekly Hankook (주간한국) - Korean; free weekly

Community

• The Bulletin - monthly broadsheet paper mailed in Downtown Toronto, covering the M5A, M5B, M5C, M5E, M5H, M5J, M5K, M5L, M5V, M5X, M4M, M4X and M4Y postal codes
• Metroland Media Group is a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation which publishes the Toronto Star. Metroland publishes a series of neighbourhood papers three times a week. These newspapers cover very local issues not otherwise covered by the large dailies. They are distributed free of charge and have captured a large portion of the neighbourhood flyer market. Some of these newspapers are:
  • Beach Mirror
  • Bloor West Villager
  • City Centre Mirror
  • East York Mirror
  • Etobicoke Guardian
  • North York Mirror
  • Parkdale Villager
  • Scarborough Mirror
  • York Guardian
• Independent community newspapers include the Town Crier and Post City Magazines chains, Beach Metro News, the Annex Gleaner, the Liberty Gleaner and the Marklander.

Ethnic media

• The Caribbean Camera - Canada's largest newspaper on Caribbean affairs
• Caribbean Weekly - Canada's only Caribbean Entertainment newspaper
• Correio da Manha - Portuguese language
• Gujarat Abroad - Canada's oldest and largest newspaper for the Gujarati community; weekly; published every Friday since 2002; caters to over 250K population mainly in the greater Toronto area through its print and online e-paper; mainly distributed through major Indian grocery stores and religious places
• Kanadai-Amerikai Magyars - Hungarian language weekly
• Kanadan Sanomat - Finnish language weekly
• Pakistan Post - Canada's largest and oldest Pakistani newspaper; weekly covering community news relevant to the South Asian community, mainly those from Pakistan; includes entertainment, news from abroad, regular columns, fashion and special features
• Pride News Magazine - Canada's African and Caribbean Canadian newspaper
• Russian Express - Russian language
• Salam Toronto - Persian-English weekly paper
• Share - weekly community newspaper which has served the Black and Caribbean community in the greater Toronto area since April 9, 1978
• StarBuzz Weekly- entertainment and lifestyle weekly for South Asians; published in English from Toronto
• Sunday Times - Urdu language weekly
• Thangatheepam - Tamil language weekly
• Thoi Bao - Vietnamese language
• Urdu Khabarnama - Urdu language weekly

Latin media

• CHHA
• LATIDOS
• Latinos Multicultural Magazine
• O Milénio
• Toronto Hispano
• WaveMagazine.ca - "Bringing Brazilians and Canadians Together"

Student newspapers

• Canadian University Press
• The Dialog - George Brown College
• East York Observer - Centennial College
• The Excalibur - York University
• The Eyeopener - Ryerson University
• Humber Et Cetera - Humber College
• The Medium - University of Toronto
• The Newspaper - University of Toronto
• The Ryersonian - Ryerson University
• Senecan - Seneca College
• The Scene - Seneca College
• The Strand - University of Toronto
• The Toronto Observer - Centennial College
• The Underground - University of Toronto
• The Varsity - University of Toronto
• The Woodsworth Howl - University of Toronto

Former newspapers

For the newspapers of York see York, Upper Canada#Media

• The Globe - 1844 to 1936; merged with The Mail and Empire to form The Globe and Mail
• Grip - 1873 to 1894; satirical newsweekly
• The Leader - 1852 to 1878
• The Mail and Empire - 1895 to 1936; merged with The Globe to form The Globe and Mail
• The News - 1881 to 1919; changed name to The Times in March 1919, which lasted until September of that year
• The Sentinel - newspaper of the Orange Order
• The Star Weekly - 1910 to 1973; Sunday edition of the Toronto Star, later a weekend supplement in the Saturday Toronto Star
• The Telegraph - 1866 to 1872
• Toronto Daily World - 1880 to 1921; final edition 9 April 1921; assets acquired by the The Mail and Empire
  • Sunday World - absorbed by the Star Weekly in 1924
• Toronto Empire - 1887 to 1895; merged with The Mail to form The Mail and Empire
• The Toronto Mail - 1872 to 1895; merged with The Empire to form The Mail and Empire
• Toronto Telegram - 1876 to 1971; much of the staff then formed the Toronto Sun

Magazines

• Canadian Living
• Canadian Business
• Chatelaine
• Elle
• fab
• Flare
• FutuRéale
• Maclean's - national magazine based in Toronto
• MoneySense
• Novella
• NUVO
• Outlooks
• Saturday Night - no longer in print
• Shameless
• Spacing
• Sportsnet magazine
• This Magazine
• Toronto Life
• The Walrus
• Women's Post

Book publishers

• Coach House Press
• Cormorant Books
• House of Anansi Press
• McClelland and Stewart
• Tundra Books
• University of Toronto Press