Media Outlets

Contents

• 1 TV stations
• 2 Radio
  • 2.1 Toronto stations
  • 2.2 Other stations
  • 2.3 Former stations
• 3 Print
  • 3.1 Newspapers
    • 3.1.1 National dailies
    • 3.1.2 Local dailies
      • 3.1.2.1 Commuter dailies
    • 3.1.3 Multicultural dailies
    • 3.1.4 Alternative
    • 3.1.5 Other alternative
    • 3.1.6 Community
    • 3.1.7 Ethnic media
    • 3.1.8 Student
    • 3.1.9 Former newspapers
• 4 Magazines
• 5 Book publishers
• 6 References
• 7 Other

TV stations

The cable provider in Toronto is Rogers Cable.

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

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

Other stations

Numerous radio stations licensed to communities outside Toronto are also marketed toward the Toronto area. This includes one American station.

Former stations

Please see former City of Toronto radio stations at the Canadian Communications Foundation.^[1]

• CFBN
• CHEV
• CKLN-FM

Print

Newspapers

National dailies

• The Globe and Mail
• National Post

Local dailies

• Toronto Star
• Toronto Sun
• Toronto World

Commuter dailies

• Metro — Formerly Metro Today, an amalgamation of Metro and GTA Today
• 24 Hours
• t.o.night

Multicultural dailies

• Correo Canadiense (Spanish)
• Corriere Canadese (Italian)
• El Popular (Spanish)
• Korea Times (Korean)
• Ming Pao Daily News (明報)(traditional Chinese characters, with a moderate preference towards Cantonese in transliterations)
• Sing Tao Daily (星島日報)(traditional Chinese characters, with a moderate preference towards Cantonese in transliterations)
• Today Daily news (現代日報)(traditional Chinese characters)
• World Journal (世界日報)(traditional Chinese characters, with a heavy preference towards Mandarin, especially as spoken in Taiwan, in transliterations)
• CanIndia News Audited by BPA.
• The Weekly Voice Punjabi and Hindi news.

Alternative

• Exclaim!
• Eye Weekly (defunct)
• The Grid
• Now Magazine
• Share
• Toronto Special
• Xtra!
• rabble.ca
• Pink Play Mags

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)
• New Star Times (星星生活報) (traditional Chinese characters) (free weekly)
• China Today Wen Wei Po (文匯報)(Simplified Chinese characters)
• Weekly Hankook (주간한국) (Korean) (free weekly)

Community

• 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 neighbourhood 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:
  • Annex Guardian
  • Beach/Riverdale Mirror
  • Bloor West Villager
  • East York Mirror
  • Etobicoke Guardian
  • North York Mirror
  • Scarborough Mirror
  • York Guardian
• Independent community newspapers include the Town Crier (Newspaper) and Post City Magazines chains, Beach Metro News, the Annex Gleaner, and the Vaughan Weekly newspaper.

Ethnic media

• Salam Toronto – Persian-English weekly paper
• Pakistan Post – Canada’s largest and Oldest South Asian newspaper.weekly covering community news relevant to those of South Asian origin. Entertainment, news from abroad, regular columns, fashion and special features are also included.

Student

• Canadian University Press
• The Medium – University of Toronto
• The Varsity – University of Toronto
• The Underground – University of Toronto
• The Newspaper – University of Toronto
• The Strand – University of Toronto
• The Excalibur – York University
• The Eyeopener – Ryerson University
• The Ryersonian – Ryerson University
• Senecan and the The Scene – Seneca College

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
• 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)
• The Telegraph – 1866 to 1872
• Toronto Daily World – 1880 to 1921 (absorbed into The Mail and Empire)

Magazines

• ON the GO Free monthly commuter lifestyle magazine
• Maclean’s is a national magazine based in Toronto
• Canadian Living
• Canadian Business
• Flare (magazine)
• MoneySense
• Saturday Night (magazine) No longer in print
• Toronto Life
• Women’s Post
• Chatelaine (magazine)
• ACTivist Magazine
• fab
• Spacing
• Toronto Life
• Shameless
• This Magazine
• The Walrus
• FutuRéale
• Pink Play Mags

Book publishers

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