Media
Winnipeg has two daily newspapers: the Winnipeg Free Press and the Winnipeg Sun. There are five weekly newspapers delivered free to most Winnipeg households based on geography. There are several ethnic weekly newspapers, as well as regionally- and nationally-based magazines based in the city. Brandon has two regular local newspapers: the Brandon Sun and the Wheat City Journal. Many small towns have local newspapers, examples of which include the Carillon News, the The Minnedosa Tribune, and the Thompson Citizen; some also receive deliveries of Brandon or Winnipeg papers.
There are five English-language stations and one French-language station based in Winnipeg that supply free television programming to the city and surrounding areas. The Global Television Network (owned by Canwest) is headquartered in the city. Cable television in Brandon is provided by Westman Cable, which operates a local community channel. Most small towns are served by rebroadcasts of Winnipeg or Brandon television stations, sometimes with the addition of some local programming. Additionally, American network affiliates broadcasting from North Dakota are available over-the-air in many parts of Southern Manitoba.
Winnipeg is home to 21 AM and FM radio stations, two of which are French-language stations. Brandon's five local radio stations are provided by Astral Media and Westman Communications Group. In addition to the Brandon and Winnipeg stations, radio service is provided in rural areas and smaller towns by Golden West Broadcasting and Corus Entertainment, as well as a few local broadcasters. CBC Radio broadcasts local and national programming throughout the province. NCI is devoted to Aboriginal programming and broadcasts to many of the isolated native communities as well as to larger cities.
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Famous quotes containing the word media:
“The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.”
—Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
“The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why—but the editorialists forget it—terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)