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CBC to open news bureaus in Oshawa, St. Catharines and Sault Ste Marie
Further expansion of regional news bureaus across the country, including several in Ontario and other parts of the country that are now virtual news deserts with the demise of local media.
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Re: CBC to open news bureaus in Oshawa, St. Catharines and Sault Ste Marie
Why Oshawa being so close to the GTA? Im up here in Barrie and there is no sign of CBC even on OTA like their used to be except their radio coverage.
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markow202 wrote:
Why Oshawa being so close to the GTA? Im up here in Barrie and there is no sign of CBC even on OTA like their used to be except their radio coverage.
Barrie has its own TV station that produces its own local newscast in the region, as well as a bunch of local news sites and at least eight local radio stations in the city and the surrounding area. In contrast, Oshawa's Global TV outlet has an out-of-market produced newscast from Toronto, one local radio station with scant news resources, and a couple of Metroland news sites that offer mostly rewritten media releases from the police, local governments and local corporations. According to the CBC, their goal is to deal with areas that are underserviced in terms of local media coverage, and Durham region certainly fits the bill
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Re: CBC to open news bureaus in Oshawa, St. Catharines and Sault Ste Marie
Not sure why St. Catharines and Niagara Region would be considered a news desert. St. Catharines, Niagara Falls and Welland each have daily newspapers published six days a week, Metroland has a Niagara This Week news website that's a remnant from its former print weeklies, there's a handful of other independent weekly newspapers and some even with print editions. St. Catharines has five radio stations, Welland has two and Niagara Falls and Fort Erie each have one.
Compared to Windsor, what Niagara Region has surprisingly always lacked was its own broadcast television stations.
Spending some tax and Google money on another news website with bare bones staffing doesn't move the needle much for Niagara.
Last edited by DX (January 15, 2025 11:54 am)