This is a list of media in St. John's,

Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic Canada, Atlantic region. The province comprises t ...

Radio

St. John's is currently the only Canadian city served by

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...

s whose call letters do not all begin with the letter ''C''. The ITU prefix ''VO'' was assigned to the Dominion of Newfoundland before the province joined

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in 1949, and three AM stations kept their existing call letters; the

Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland The Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland (BCN) was the government-owned public radio service of the dominion of Newfoundland.Jeff A. Webb, ''The Voice of Newfoundland: A Social History of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland''. Unive ...

's VONF, however, was taken over by

CBC Radio CBC Radio is the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC operates a number of radio networks serving different audiences and programming niches, all of which (regardless of language) are outlined below ...

and adopted the new call sign CBN. However, radio stations in St. John's which went to air after 1949 use the same range of prefixes (''CF''–''CK'') currently in use elsewhere in Canada, with the exception of

VOCM-FM VOCM-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 97.5 Hertz, MHz from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Owned by Stingray Group, the station is branded as ''97.5 K-Rock'' and broadcasts a classic roc ...

, which was permitted to adopt the VOCM callsign because of its corporate association with the AM station that already bore that callsign. VO also remains in use in amateur radio.

Television

Rogers Cable has its provincial headquarters in St. John’s and is the incumbent cable provider in the city. Its community channel

Rogers TV Rogers TV (stylized as Rogers tv) is a group of English-language community channels owned by Rogers Communications. Many of these channels share common programs. Rogers TV broadcasts in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland and ...

airs local shows such as ''Out of the Fog'' and ''One Chef One Critic''. Network television in the United States is piped in from

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and

Detroit Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at t ...

via Rogers Cable.

Print

* ''

The Telegram ''The Telegram'' is a daily newspaper published weekdays and Saturdays (as ''The Weekend Telegram'') in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. History ''The Evening Telegram'' was first published on April 3, 1879 by William James Herd ...

'' (daily newspaper) * '' Newfoundland Quarterly'' (literary magazine founded in 1901, now published by Memorial University) * ''The Independent'' (weekly newspaper, discontinued in print but available online) * ''The Express'' (weekly newspaper, now discontinued) * '' The Muse'' (formerly weekly or, during summer months, bi-monthly Memorial University student newspaper) – ''The Muse'' stopped print circulation in the fall of 2017 in order to deal with ongoing budget difficulties and is now a strictly online publication. * '' The Gazette'' ( bi-monthly Memorial University newspaper) * ''

Le Gaboteur ''Le Gaboteur'' is a Canadian newspaper, published in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

'' (Newfoundland and Labrador's only French-language newspaper; bi-monthly) * '' The Scope'' (a defunct alternative newspaper) * ''

The Overcast ''The Overcast'' is a monthly newspaper that covers arts and culture in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The paper began publishing in February 2014, founded by St. John's author and blogger Chad Pelley. ''The Overcast'' covers local arti ...

(St. John's Monthly Alternative Newspaper) * ''The Daily News'' (1955– 1963)

Online

AllNewfoundlandLabrador.com is an online newspaper which covers business news from around the province. The subscription news service publishes five days a week and was launched in 2016 by sister publication

allNovaScotia allNovaScotia is an online newspaper based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Founded in March 2001 by David Bentley and his daughter Caroline Wood, the subscription news service focuses on business and political news throughout the province. Al ...

which is based in

Halifax, Nova Scotia Halifax is the capital and largest municipality of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the largest municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of the 2021 Census, the municipal population was 439,819, with 348 ...

. The two publications have a newsroom staff of 19 reporters, editors and columnists.

References

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