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=== Media === {{see also|Media in Winnipeg}} Winnipeg has two daily newspapers: the ''[[Winnipeg Free Press]]'', a [[broadsheet]] with the highest circulation numbers in Manitoba, as well as the ''[[Winnipeg Sun]]'', a smaller [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]]-style paper. There are several ethnic weekly newspapers,<ref>{{vcite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/8/16/r16-205-e.html |title=Canadian Ethnic Newspapers Currently Received |publisher=Collections Canada |accessdate=17 July 2009 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080107093413/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/8/16/r16-205-e.html |archivedate=7 January 2008 }}</ref> including the weekly French-language ''[[La Liberté (Canada)|La Liberté]]'', and regional and national magazines based in the city. Brandon has two newspapers: the daily ''[[Brandon Sun]]'' and the weekly ''[[Wheat City Journal]]''.<ref name="brandon-media">{{vcite web|url=http://www.econdev.brandon.mb.ca/main.nsf/Pages+By+ID/666|title=Local Media|publisher=Economic Development Brandon|accessdate=11 November 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100104193747/http://www.econdev.brandon.mb.ca/main.nsf/Pages+By+ID/666|archivedate=4 January 2010}}</ref> Many small towns have local newspapers.<ref>{{vcite web|url=https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/leg-lib/newspapers.html|title=Current Newspapers at the Library|publisher=Legislative Library|accessdate=23 February 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811225332/http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/leg-lib/newspapers.html|archivedate=11 August 2010}}</ref> There are five English-language television stations and one French-language station based in Winnipeg. The [[Global Television Network]] (owned by [[Canwest]]) is headquartered in the city.<ref>{{vcite book|author=Carlin, Vincent A|title=How Canadians communicate|editor=Frits Pannekoek, David Taras, Maria Bakardjieva|publisher=University of Calgary Press|year=2003|volume=1|pages=59–60|chapter=No Clear Channel: The Rise and Possible Fall of Media Convergence|isbn=978-1-55238-104-5}}</ref> Winnipeg is home to twenty-one AM and FM radio stations, two of which are French-language stations.<ref name="ftg"/> Brandon's five local radio stations are provided by [[Astral Media]] and Westman Communications Group.<ref name="ftg">{{vcite web|url=http://www.winnipegradio.ca/|title=Winnipeg Radio|year=2008|publisher=Fresh Traffic Group|accessdate=11 November 2009|url-status=usurped|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420212946/http://winnipegradio.ca/|archivedate=20 April 2009}}</ref> In addition to the Brandon and Winnipeg stations, radio service is provided in rural areas and smaller towns by [[Golden West Broadcasting]], [[Corus Entertainment]], and local broadcasters. [[CBC Radio]] broadcasts local and national programming throughout the province.<ref>{{vcite journal|author=Smith, John H|year=1969|title=The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|journal=International Communication Gazette|publisher=Sage Publications|volume=15|issue=2|pages=139–143|doi=10.1177/001654926901500205}}</ref> [[Native Communications]] is devoted to indigenous programming and broadcasts to many of the isolated native communities as well as to larger cities.<ref>{{vcite journal|author=Buddle, Kathleen|year=2005|title=Aboriginal Cultural Capital Creation and Radio Production in Urban Ontario|journal=Canadian Journal of Communication|publisher=Canadian Journal of Communication Corporation|volume=30|issue=1|pages=29–30|doi=10.22230/cjc.2005v30n1a1480|doi-access=free}}</ref> [[File:Winnipeg Jets first home victory celebration.jpg|thumb|The [[Winnipeg Jets]] celebrate their first regulation win in Winnipeg at the MTS Centre on 17 October 2011]]
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