Media in Toronto


The media in Toronto encompasses a wide range of television and radio stations, as well as digital and print media outlets. These media platforms either service the entire city or are cater to a specific neighbourhood or community within Toronto. Additionally, several media outlets from Toronto extend their services to cover the Greater Toronto Area and the Golden Horseshoe region. While most media outlets in Toronto cater to local or regional audiences, there are also several national media outlets based in the city that distribute their services across Canada and caters to a national audience.
Toronto is the largest mass media market in Canada, and the fourth-largest market in North America, behind New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. As a result, several Canadian media companies and conglomerates are based in Toronto.

TV stations

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 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, WIVB-TV, WKBW-TV, WUTV, and WNED-TV. For additional fees cable subscribers can also watch WNYO-TV and WNLO. 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 over-the-air and cable television networks also have national operations based in Toronto; for more information, see List of Canadian television channels.

Radio

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.

Former stations

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

Print

Newspapers

National dailies

The Globe and Mail

Local dailies

Corriere Canadese – ItalianToronto Guardian – English language Korea Times – Korean StarMetro (newspaper) – formerly Metro, Metro Today, GTA TodayMing Pao Daily News – traditional Chinese characters, with a moderate preference towards Cantonese in transliterations El Popular – SpanishSing Tao Daily – traditional Chinese characters, with a moderate preference towards Cantonese in transliterations South Asian Observer CLOSEDToday Daily news – traditional Chinese charactersToronto StarToronto SunWorld Journal – traditional Chinese characters, with a heavy preference towards Mandarin, especially as spoken in Taiwan, in transliterations; ceased publication in 2016

Alternative

NOW Magazine — entertainment weekly

Community and weekly newspapers

Metroland Media Group is a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation which publishes the Toronto Star. Metroland publishes a series of weekly neighbourhood papers, some of which previously printed two or three times a week. They are distributed free of charge and have captured a large portion of the neighbourhood advertising flyer market. These newspapers are: Bloor West Villager, City Centre Mirror, East York/Beach Mirror, Etobicoke Guardian, North York Mirror, Parkdale-Liberty Villager, Scarborough Mirror and York Guardian.
Several independent community newspapers include the Town Crier and the Post City Magazines chain of monthly neighbourhood magazines, Beach Metro News, the Annex Gleaner, the Liberty Gleaner, West End Phoenix and the Marklander in the far west of Toronto.
Monthly broadsheet The Bulletin converted into an online-only outlet, now defunct.
L'Express and Le Métropolitain are French-language weekly newspapers.

Ethnic and multicultural newspapers

Ajit Weekly - Punjabi languageCanIndia News - English language weeklyThe Contact Weekly - English languageCorreio da Manhã Canadá - Portuguese language twice-weeklyCulture Magazin - Vietnamese and English languagedas Journal - German language, every two weeksGazeta - Polish language weeklyGujarat Abroad - Canada's oldest and largest newspaper for the Gujarati community; weekly; published Fridays since 2002; caters to over 250K population mainly in the greater Toronto area through print and online e-paper; mainly distributed to major Indian grocery stores and religious placesIndia Journal - English language Kanadai-Amerikai Magyars - Hungarian language weekly Kanadan Sanomat - Finnish language weeklyMilénio Stadium - Portuguese language, weeklyPakistan 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 featuresRussian Express - Russian languageSalam Toronto - Persian-English weekly paper

Student newspapers

Former newspapers

Eye Weekly / The Grid - defunctThe Globe - 1844 to 1936; merged with The Mail and Empire to form The Globe and MailGrip - 1873 to 1894; satirical newsweeklyThe Leader - 1852 to 1878The Mail and Empire - 1895 to 1936; merged with The Globe to form The Globe and MailThe News - 1881 to 1919; changed name to The Times in March 1919, which lasted until September of that yearThe Sentinel - 1877 to 1896; newspaper of the Orange OrderThe Star Weekly - 1910 to 1973; Sunday edition of the Toronto Star, later a weekend supplement in the Saturday Toronto StarThe Telegraph - 1866 to 1872The Toronto World - 1880 to 1921; final weekday edition 9 April 1921; assets acquired by The Mail and Empire

Magazines

Canadian LivingCanadian BusinessChatelaineElle Exclaim!fabFASHIONFoodism Toronto FutuRéaleMaclean's - national magazine based in TorontoMoneySenseOutlooksSaturday Night - no longer in printShamelessSpacingSportsnet magazineThis MagazineToronto LifeThe WalrusWeddingbells

Online-only

Best of TorontoblogTOCuriocity Daily HiveDished TorontoFlare - formerly in print.Gent's PostNarcity Media
  • Sing Tao Daily Streets of Toronto - formerly known as Post City MagazinesToronto.comWanderEater magazineView the Vibe - also syndicated onto the TTC media portal "Tconnect".

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