Media in Ottawa–Gatineau


The following media outlets are located in Canada's National Capital Region, serving the cities of Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec. The two cities, which are adjacent and each receive virtually all television and radio stations operating in either city, are considered a single media market.
Most of the region's FM and TV stations, regardless of which community they are officially licensed to, transmitted from Camp Fortune in the Gatineau Hills. Other TV stations transmit from a tower located in Manotick, in the rural south portion of Ottawa. Ryan Tower, the former transmitter tower at Camp Fortune, was taken down on November 4, 2012 and its services and some antenna elements were transferred to a new, nearby tower.
In addition to the market's local media services, Ottawa is also home to several national media operations, including CPAC, the digital political newspaper iPolitics, and the parliamentary bureau staff of all of Canada's major newsgathering organizations in television, radio and print. The city is also home to the legal headquarters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation although operational headquarters for English- and French-language services are located in Toronto and Montreal, respectively.

Radio

AM stations

FM stations

Weatheradio

Shortwave (SW)

Other radio stations

The following radio stations that can also be heard in the National Capital Region:
Despite being one of Canada's largest metropolitan areas, many of the "local" stations serving Ottawa–Gatineau are, in fact, based in the Greater Toronto Area. Notably, the country's #2 and #3 private-sector broadcast networks, Global and Citytv, respectively, rely on repeaters of their Toronto-based stations, not originating stations, to serve Ottawa viewers. Despite this, however, Ottawa–Gatineau is unique among Canadian television markets, as the only market in all of Canada which has terrestrial access to virtually the entire range of Canadian broadcast networks and systems in both English and French — the larger Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver media markets each lack over-the-air access to some of the services in their market's minority language. The sole exception is aboriginal network APTN, which only has broadcast coverage in the North, but is carried on cable in Ottawa and indeed throughout the country.
Of the fourteen stations available over the air, only six actually originate from the area and provide local news. These six stations are currently owned by only three companies, with two stations apiece: the CBC, RNC Media, and Bell Media.
Both of the CBC stations carry local evening newscasts in their respective languages. The two Bell Media-owned stations, while nominally maintaining separate news operations, do not currently compete against each other for local news; CTV airs local newscasts at midday and in the evening, while CTV 2 only broadcasts a morning newscast. As for the RNC Media stations, the TVA affiliate carries a local evening newscast, whereas the V affiliate only airs short news updates.
OTA virtual channel Actual channel
Vidéotron
Call signNetworkLanguageTransmitter locationNotes
4.125 86CBOT-DTCBC TelevisionENCamp Fortune, Gatineau
6.114 38CIII-DT-6GlobalENCamp Fortune, GatineauRebroadcaster of CIII-DT
9.133 52CBOFT-DTFRCamp Fortune, Gatineau
11.122 1811CHCH-DT-1IndependentENManotick, Ottawa
13.113 77CJOH-DTCTVENCamp Fortune, Gatineau
14.120 14240CJMT-DT-2Omni Television
ENManotick, OttawaRebroadcaster of CJMT-DT
24.124 210CICO-DT-24TVOntarioENCamp Fortune, GatineauRebroadcaster of CICA-DT
30.130 693CIVO-DTTélé-QuébecFRCamp Fortune, GatineauRebroadcaster of CIVM-DT
34.134 115CFGS-DTVFRCamp Fortune, Gatineau
40.140 104CHOT-DTTVAFRCamp Fortune, Gatineau
42.142 2555CITS-DT-1Yes TVENManotick, OttawaRebroadcaster of CITS-DT
43.143 612CHRO-DT-43CTV 2ENManotick, Ottawa
60.127 16239CFMT-DT-2Omni Television
ENManotick, OttawaRebroadcaster of CFMT-DT
65.117 1513CITY-DT-3CitytvENManotick, OttawaRebroadcaster of CITY-DT
--22--Rogers TVEN-Rogers Cable community channel
--23--TV RogersFR-Rogers Cable community channel
---9-MAtvFR-Vidéotron community channel

Rogers Cable and Vidéotron are the main cable providers in Ottawa and Gatineau, respectively. For many years, Ottawa cable systems piped in stations from the nearest American city, Watertown, New York. Ottawa is more than six times as large as the Watertown market, and the Watertown stations relied heavily on advertising in Ottawa for their revenue. However, in the late 1980s, all Watertown stations except PBS outlet WNPE-TV were dropped in favour of stations from Rochester, New York. They have since been replaced with stations from Detroit, though WPBS is still carried in Ottawa.

Defunct television stations

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