Editing Oshawa (section)

==Media==
Oshawa has few media outlets of its own due to its proximity to Toronto. The city has one [[AM broadcasting|AM]] station, [[CKDO]] (1580), which is rebroadcast on 107.7 FM, and one [[FM broadcasting|FM]] station, 94.9 [[CKGE-FM|CKGE]]. Both stations are owned by Durham Radio, which also owns [[CJKX-FM|CJKX]], which is licensed to the nearby community of [[Ajax, Ontario|Ajax]], although all three stations are operated from the same studios at the [[Oshawa Executive Airport]]. CKDO has officially been licensed as a [[clear-channel station]] since 2006 and is the only full-power station in Canada on [[1580 AM|1580 kHz]] it nonetheless operates at a fifth of the usual power of a clear-channel outlet with a directional signal that is pointed away from the United States.

Oshawa has a [[Global Television Network|Global]] O&O station, [[CHEX-TV-2]] (Channel 12), which is a sister station of Peterborough's [[CHEX-DT]]. It airs a daily supper hour news and current affairs program targeted to Durham Region viewers. Although a larger city than Peterborough then and now, Oshawa was not granted a television station in the original 1950s assignments as it was geographically too close to Toronto, since the original spacings were nominally set at {{convert|88|km||abbr=on}}. [[Rogers Cable]], the local cable television service provider, operates [[Rogers TV]]: a [[community channel (Canada)|community channel]] with local television programming for cable subscribers.

Oshawa is served by several community newspapers, including the ''Oshawa Express'', an independent which is published every Wednesday, and ''Oshawa This Week'', published two times per week by [[Metroland Media Group|Metroland]]. The long-standing daily newspaper, the ''Oshawa Times'' (also known at various times as the ''Oshawa Daily Times'' and ''Times-Gazette''), was closed by its owner [[The Thomson Corporation|Thomson Newspapers]], after a lengthy strike in 1994.

[[John Short Larke]] was the proprietor of the ''Oshawa Vindicator'', a strongly pro-Conservative newspaper, in the late 19th century.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biography of John S. Larke |url=http://www.accessgenealogy.com/scripts/data/database.cgi?file=Data&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0031597 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716192709/http://www.accessgenealogy.com/scripts/data/database.cgi?file=Data&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0031597 |archive-date=16 July 2011 |website=Access Genealogy |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Oshawa is home to ''Artsforum Magazine'', a not-for-profit magazine of arts and ideas launched in Fall 2000 by John Arkelian, its publisher and editor-in-chief. Topics in the magazine range from foreign policy to film.<ref>[http://www.durhamcollege.ca/wp-content/uploads/Reflections_Fall2008_FINAL.pdf "Creating a Forum for the Arts"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717135437/http://www.durhamcollege.ca/wp-content/uploads/Reflections_Fall2008_FINAL.pdf |date=17 July 2012 }}. ''Reflections'', Durham College Alumni Magazine, Fall 2008, Volume 65. page 4.</ref>