Media in Ottawa–Gatineau

The following media outlets are located in Canada's National Capital Region, serving the cities of Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec. The two cities, which are adjacent and each receive virtually all television and radio stations operating in either city, are considered a single media market.

Most of the region's FM and TV stations, regardless of which community they are officially licensed to, transmit from Camp Fortune in the Gatineau Hills. Other TV stations transmit from a tower located in Manotick, in the rural south portion of Ottawa. Ryan Tower, the former transmitter tower at Camp Fortune, was taken down on November 4, 2012 and its services and some antenna elements were transferred to a new, nearby tower.^[1]

In addition to the market's local media services, Ottawa is also home to several national media operations, including CPAC (Canada's national legislature broadcaster), the digital political newspaper iPolitics, and the parliamentary bureau staff of all of Canada's major newsgathering organizations in television, radio and print. The city is also home to the legal headquarters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, although operational headquarters for English- and French-language services are located in Toronto and Montreal, respectively.

Radio

AM stations

Frequency	Call sign	Branding	Format	Owner	Notes
AM 580	CFRA	580 CFRA	news/talk	Bell Media Radio	Also available on FM 100.3 via HD Radio
AM 1200	CFGO	TSN 1200 Ottawa	sports	Bell Media Radio	Also available on FM 100.3 via HD Radio
AM 1670	CJEU	Radio Oxygène 1670AM Radio-Enfant-Ado	children's radio	Fondation Radio-Enfant	French (Gatineau)

FM stations

Frequency	Call sign	Branding	Format	Owner	Notes
FM 88.5	CILV-FM	Live 88.5	modern rock	Stingray Group
FM 89.1	CHUO-FM	CHUO FM 89.1	campus radio	University of Ottawa
FM 89.9	CIHT-FM	Hot 89.9	contemporary hit radio	Stingray Group
FM 90.7	CBOF-FM	Ici Radio-Canada Première	news/talk	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation	French
FM 91.5	CBO-FM	CBC Radio One	news/talk	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
FM 92.3	CJET-FM	Santa Radio	Christmas music	Rogers Media	licensed to Smiths Falls
FM 92.7	CJVN-FM		Christian radio	Fiston Kalambay	French (Ottawa)
FM 93.1	CKCU-FM	CKCU FM 93.1	campus radio	Carleton University
FM 93.9	CKKL-FM	Pure Country 94	country music	Bell Media Radio
FM 94.5	CJFO-FM	Unique FM	community radio	Radio de la communauté francophone d'Ottawa	French (Ottawa)
FM 94.9	CIMF-FM	Rouge FM	soft adult contemporary	Bell Media Radio	French (Gatineau)
FM 95.7	CFPO-FM	Elmnt FM	adult contemporary	Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
FM 96.5	CFTX-FM	BPM Sports 96.5 Gatineau	sports radio	RNC Media	French (Gatineau)
FM 97.1	CHLX-FM	Wow 97.1	adult contemporary	RNC Media	French (Gatineau)
FM 97.5	CKVV-FM	Moose FM	adult hits	Vista Broadcast Group	licensed to Kemptville
FM 97.9	CJLL-FM	CHIN Ottawa	multilingual community	CHIN Radio/TV International
FM 98.5	CJWL-FM	Lite 98.5	Soft AC/pop standards	Evanov Communications
FM 99.1	CHRI-FM	CHRI 99.1	Christian music	Christian Hit Radio
FM 99.7	CJOT-FM	boom 99.7	Classic Hits	Corus Entertainment
FM 100.3	CJMJ-FM	Move 100	adult contemporary	Bell Media Radio
FM 101.1	CKBY-FM	Country 101.1	country music	Rogers Media	licensed to Smiths Falls
FM 101.7	CIDG-FM	Rebel 101.7	active rock	Torres Media
FM 102.5	CBOX-FM	Ici Musique	public music	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation	French
FM 103.3	CBOQ-FM	CBC Music	public music	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
FM 104.1	CKTF-FM	Énergie	contemporary hit radio	Bell Media Radio	French (Gatineau)
FM 104.7	CKOF-FM	104,7 FM	Talk radio	Cogeco	French (Gatineau)
FM 105.3	CISS-FM	Kiss FM	hot adult contemporary	Rogers Media
FM 106.1	CHEZ-FM	Chez 106	mainstream rock	Rogers Media
FM 106.9	CKQB-FM	Jump FM	contemporary hit radio	Corus Entertainment
FM 107.9	CKDJ-FM	CKDJ FM 107.9	campus radio	Algonquin College

Weatheradio

Frequency	Call sign	Branding	Format	Owner	Notes
162.550 MHz	VBE 719	Weatheradio Canada	weather alerts	Meteorological Service of Canada

Shortwave (SW)

Frequency	Call sign	Branding	Format	Owner	Notes
3330 kHz 7850 kHz ¹ 14670 kHz	CHU		time signal	National Research Council of Canada	shortwave radio station. ¹On January 1, 2009, CHU moved its signal from 7335 kHz to 7850 kHz.

Other radio stations

The following radio stations that can also be heard in the National Capital Region:

CHLK-FM 88.1 FM, a community radio station operating out of Perth, Ontario.
VEF315 88.7 FM, a community radio station operating out of Vankleek Hill, Ontario. ^[2]
CKS608 91.9 FM, an ultra-low power campus and internet radio station from La Cité collégiale in Ottawa. ^[3]
VF8013 92.3 FM, a very low-power French-language Christian radio station located in Ottawa. Air times of this radio station may vary. ^[4]^[5] ^[6]
CHRC-FM 92.5 FM, a radio station operating out of Clarence-Rockland, Ontario.
Radio-Hull 106.5 FM, a special events radio station based in Hull, Quebec. ^[7]
CJRO-FM 107.7 FM, a very low-power community radio station in Carlsbad Springs, Ontario. CJRO-FM is also heard via low-power transmitters on 107.9 FM Vars/Sarsfield and 107.7 FM Embrun/Russell serving south-east rural Ottawa.
Some Montreal AM radio stations can also be heard in the area, such as CKGM 690, CKAC 730, and CJAD 800 as well as CKOI-FM in the far eastern parts of Ottawa.

Defunct radio stations

AM

540 AM CJSB, a Ottawa-based radio station that launched in 1982 until it left the air in 1994. The station relaunched on FM at 106.9 MHz as CKQB-FM.
970 AM CKCH, ceased operations in 1994.
1310 AM CIWW, a Rogers owned CityNews Radio station that shutdown on October 26, 2023. ^[8]
1350 AM CIRA-5, a Gatineau-based French language rebroadcaster of CIRA-FM Montreal ceased operations in early 2015.
1350 AM CHFO, a Gatineau-based French language community radio station from 2018 until it left the air in 2019.
1630 AM CHYW, a low-power tourist information radio station that operated from the Macdonald-Cartier International Airport from 2001 ^[9] but its uncertain when the station left the air. In 2005, 2012 and 2017, applications were submitted to the CRTC to operate new radio stations on 1630 kHz to serve Ottawa and Gatineau. Those applications were either denied or withdrawn. ^[10] ^[11] ^[12]

FM

Mix FM, was an unlicensed radio station in the Ottawa area that operated on various frequencies, mostly 91.9 FM in 2009, until it was shut down in 2010.
96.5 CFDT-FM (east side) and 99.9 CFDT-FM-1 (west side), very low-power tourist information radio stations that served motorists along Highway 417. It is uncertain when or if these stations were ever in operation.^[13]^[14]^[15]
96.5 FM was also used in 2002 for a special event radio programming at 96.5 MHz in Gatineau with the call sign CIRC.^[16]
CIIO-FM, operated over various frequencies on 104.7 FM,^[17] ^[18] 99.7 FM^[19] and 97.5, a tourist information station owned by Instant Information Services has been off the air since 2011.^[20] Instant Information Services also operated CIIF-FM 97.5, also a former french-language tourist information station in Ottawa.
95.7 FM CKAV-FM-9, the local outlet of the Aboriginal Voices radio network; off the air since late 2014.
CKO (CKO-1) 106.9 FM was the Ottawa affiliate of the national CKO all-news network which ceased operations in 1989.

Television

Despite being one of Canada's largest metropolitan areas, many of the "local" stations serving Ottawa–Gatineau are, in fact, based in the Greater Toronto Area. Notably, the country's #2 and #3 private-sector broadcast networks, Global and Citytv, respectively, rely on repeaters of their Toronto-based stations, not originating stations, to serve Ottawa viewers. Despite this, however, Ottawa–Gatineau is unique among Canadian television markets, as the only market in all of Canada which has terrestrial access to virtually the entire range of Canadian broadcast networks and systems in both English and French — the larger Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver media markets each lack over-the-air access to some of the services in their market's minority language. The sole exception is aboriginal network APTN, which only has broadcast coverage in the North, but is carried on cable in Ottawa and indeed throughout the country.

Of the fourteen stations available over the air, only six actually originate from the area and provide local news. These six stations are currently owned by only three companies, with two stations apiece: the CBC (with stations for its English and French networks), RNC Media (which owns the local affiliates of the two private French-language networks, TVA and Noovo), and Bell Media (which owns stations associated with its CTV and CTV 2 networks).

Both of the CBC stations carry local evening newscasts in their respective languages. The two Bell Media-owned stations, while nominally maintaining separate news operations, do not currently compete against each other for local news; CTV airs local newscasts at midday and in the evening, while CTV 2 only broadcasts a morning newscast. As for the RNC Media stations, the TVA affiliate carries a local evening newscast, whereas the Noovo affiliate only airs short local news updates.

OTA virtual channel (PSIP)	Actual channel	Rogers Cable (Ottawa)	Vidéotron (Gatineau)	Call sign	Network	Language	Transmitter location	Notes
4.1	25 (UHF)	8	6	CBOT-DT	CBC Television	EN	Camp Fortune, Gatineau
6.1	14 (UHF)	3	8	CIII-DT-6	Global	EN	Camp Fortune, Gatineau	Rebroadcaster of CIII-DT (Toronto)
9.1	33 (UHF)	5	2	CBOFT-DT	Ici Radio-Canada Télé	FR	Camp Fortune, Gatineau
11.1	22 (UHF)	18	11	CHCH-DT-1	Independent	EN	Manotick, Ottawa	Rebroadcaster of CHCH-DT (Hamilton)
13.1	16 (UHF)	7	7	CJOH-DT	CTV	EN	Camp Fortune, Gatineau
14.1	20 (UHF)	14	240	CJMT-DT-2	Omni Television ("Omni 2")	EN	Manotick, Ottawa	Rebroadcaster of CJMT-DT (Toronto)
15.1	15 (UHF)	25	55	CITS-DT-1	Yes TV	EN	Manotick, Ottawa	Rebroadcaster of CITS-DT (Hamilton)
24.1	24 (UHF)	2	10	CICO-DT-24	TVOntario	EN	Camp Fortune, Gatineau	Rebroadcaster of CICA-DT (Toronto)
30.1	30 (UHF)	69	3	CIVO-DT	Télé-Québec	FR	Camp Fortune, Gatineau	Rebroadcaster of CIVM-DT (Montreal)
32.1	32 (UHF)	10	4	CHOT-DT	TVA	FR	Camp Fortune, Gatineau
34.1	34 (UHF)	11	5	CFGS-DT	Noovo	FR	Camp Fortune, Gatineau
43.1	35 (UHF)	6	12	CHRO-DT-43	CTV 2	EN	Manotick, Ottawa	Rebroadcaster of CHRO-TV (Pembroke)
60.1	27 (UHF)	16	239	CFMT-DT-2	Omni Television ("Omni 1")	EN	Manotick, Ottawa	Rebroadcaster of CFMT-DT (Toronto)
65.1	17 (UHF)	15	13	CITY-DT-3	Citytv	EN	Manotick, Ottawa	Rebroadcaster of CITY-DT (Toronto)
–	–	22	–	–	Rogers TV	EN	–	Rogers Cable community channel
–	–	23	–	–	TV Rogers	FR	–	Rogers Cable community channel
–	–	–	9	–	MAtv	FR	–	Vidéotron community channel

Defunct television stations

CFVO-TV channel 30—the region's first TVA affiliate; broadcast from 1974 to 1977
CKXT-DT-3 channel 20—local repeater of CKXT-DT Toronto; broadcast from 2008 to 2011