Media
Despite the fact that there are enough 'West-Islanders' to constitute a medium-sized city in Canada, there is a noticeable dearth in local original content media. The West Island Chronicle and West Island Gazette are the two principle English-language weekly newspapers and there are a variety of free local tabloids primarily used for advertising, including the Cité-Nouvelles editions. The West End Times and The Suburban are more closely focused on Montreal's anglophone population on the whole, but are also available and of general interest to residents the West Island. Other small publications include periodic free 'lifestyle' magazines or 'business-profile' quarterlies, though publication runs are typically very limited. There are no dailies in either language native to the region, as this market is dominated by Montreal's major dailies, such as the Montreal Gazette or La Presse.
The North Shore News once served the communities of Pierrefonds, Roxboro & Dollard-des-Ormeaux when those communities were primarily focused along access routes to and from Gouin and Sources Boulevards and the Sunnybrook and Roxboro train stations. Though the publication was touted as the West Island's only independent weekly throughout the 1960s and 1970s, it died out in the 1980s.
A local radio station operated in Pointe Claire from 1960 to 1989, named CFOX at 1470 on the AM dial, but declining revenue and several denied requests to upgrade to a more powerful frequency led the station to fold abruptly in 1989. Today all radio programming, much like print media and television, is supplied by centralized broadcasters that serve the Montreal region as a whole.
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“The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.”
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