This is an overview of media inVancouver, British Columbia.

Vancouver has two majorEnglish-language daily newspapers,The Vancouver Sun (abroadsheet) andThe Province (atabloid). Both are published byPostmedia Network. There are also two national newspapers distributed in the city:The Globe and Mail, which began distribution of a "national edition" into B.C. in 1983, and in more recent years launched a three-page B.C. news section in an effort to increase its readership in the city. TheNational Post, also owned by Postmedia, entered city markets only in the last few years but has very little British Columbia content.

Vancouver has fourChinese-language daily newspapers,Ming Pao,Sing Tao,World Journal andThe Epoch Times.Ming Pao andSing Tao cater to a Cantonese-speaking readership whereasWorld Journal andThe Epoch Times target Mandarin speakers.

Vancouver business publications include the following:

One free daily newspaper,Metro is published in the city from Monday to Friday. It contains a small number of local news stories.

The Georgia Straight is a weekly "alternative" newspaper, though in addition to left-leaning news and opinion it also features upscale advertising for products such as condominiums and has lifestyle articles on topics such as health and style. Its most extensive sections are focused on entertainment and music features and listings.The Georgia Straight began as a counterculture newspaper in the 1960s, full of controversial politics and occasional "obscene" cartoons and pictures, including the hippie classic comicHarold Hedd. During this period theStraight's owner and publisher, Dan MacLeod, was repeatedly harassed by the city and its anti-hippie mayorTom Campbell. During the 1970s MacLeod converted the publication to a much more entertainment-oriented publication, avoiding political content until the mid-1980s.

The Post Group Multimedia publishes 3 weekly newspapers:The Asian Pacific Post (Chinese),South Asian Post (Indo-Canadian), andThe Filipino Post, for the three largest immigrant communities in the Lower Mainland.

The Express is the title used for an occasional union-published newspaper published by the press unions when they are on strike.

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There are three main news radio stations in Vancouver:CBC Radio One,CKNW andCKWX. There are several other talk, information, and sports stations, primarily on the AM band, and a variety of music stations, mostly on FM.

In addition, there are four campus and community licensed radio stations in the Vancouver market.CJSF-FM (SFU'sBurnaby campus),CITR-FM (UBC's main campus), andCFML (BCIT's Burnaby campus) are staffed by students from their respective schools.CFRO (Vancouver Coop Radio) is located in Vancouver'sDowntown Eastside. CJSF, CITR, and CFRO are members of theNational Campus and Community Radio Association.

In addition, bothKARI fromBlaine, Washington (AM 550), andKWPZ fromLynden, Washington (FM 106.5), are usually considered part of the Vancouver radio market; KARI and KWPZ both maintain offices in Vancouver.

• LG73 www.lg73.ca, (classic soul,contemporary hits, and eclectic mix)
• CBC Radio 3 is primarily broadcast from Vancouver

Vancouver is the third-largest television market in Canada, and the largest in western Canada.^[2] It is also the second-largest television production centre in North America afterLos Angeles.^[3]

Global BC is the most popular evening newscast in the city, thoughCTV Vancouver, currently second in the ratings, has aggressively been trying to increase its market share — including the purchasing of a news helicopter known as 'Chopper 9'. In 2006, Global BC launched the Global One traffic helicopter for live traffic updates and breaking news.CBC also has local newscasts though they are far back in the ratings.^{[citation needed]}

Vancouver (andLondon, Ontario) were the first two cities in Canada to be served by cable television, in 1952.

Rogers Cable provides service to Vancouver and most of the Lower Mainland.Shaw Communications formerly provided cable service from 2000 until 2023, when its Lower Mainland cable systems were reacquired by Rogers Communications in a merger.^[6][7]Telus TV also offerssatellite television andIPTV service throughout most of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. The suburb ofDelta is served by Delta Cable, a subsidiary of the Halifax-based telecommunications companyEastlink.

Other over-the-air television stations licensed toBellingham, Washington, that are available terrestrially in Vancouver but not carried on cable areKBCB (channel 24), aTri-State Christian Television owned-and-operated station on channel 24.1 along with theSonlife Broadcasting Network on subchannel 24.2; and K24IC-D (channel 28.1), arebroadcaster ofPBS stationKBTC-TV fromTacoma, Washington.

American network affiliates on Vancouver cable are fromSeattle, Washington, includingKOMO (ABC),KING (NBC),KIRO (CBS),KCTS (PBS) andKCPQ (Fox), along withindependent stationKSTW.

• Boulevard Magazine, a west coast luxury lifestyle magazine serving the Chinese-speaking communities of Metro Vancouver,^[8] published monthly in English and in Chinese.
• Business in Vancouver (BIV) is a weekly business news journal
• HUSH Magazine, a bi-monthly social commentary and lifestyle magazine for 25- to 40-year-olds, distributed to Downtown Vancouver
• Kinesis, a 1974 to 2001 magazine
• Megaphone Magazine, sharing stories that explore social justice, culture, politics, and independent arts in Vancouver and Victoria.
• MONTECRISTO Magazine, a lifestyle quarterly for discerning Vancouverites, published four times a year
• Resource World Magazine, a bi-monthly magazine distributed in 46 countries that reports on the business of mining and green technologies
• Vancouver Magazine, a lifestyle magazine with some news features, published 10 times a year
• What's in Magazine, a Chinese lifestyle magazine for new trends in the Asian community, published once a month
• WestCoast Families, a family lifestyle magazine, published 6 times a year, plus specialty issues.

• BC Buzz withDave Michael Garg, online TV & magazine outlet focused on the environment
• Cambie Report, local politics podcast
• Daily Hive (formerly Vancity Buzz), local news and lifestyle outlet
• HUSH Magazine, an editorial platform for lifestyle, social commentary and entertainment
• LifeVancouver, Japanese news and events site
• Jornal Brasil Vancouver, Brazilian community newspaper, events, classified ads and directory website
• PolitiCoast, provincial politics podcast
• Taiyangbao, a Chinese-language news website produced in association withThe Vancouver Sun newspaper
• The Tyee, alternative news site
• Vancouver Desi, a South Asian news portal produced in association withThe Province newspaper
• The Vancouver Observer, alternative local news site
• Vancouver Weekly, alternative news weekly site
• VIES Magazine, independent entertainment magazine in Vancouver, B.C. with focus on music, sports, food and beverage
• The West End Journal, independentonline community website serving Vancouver's West End / Coal Harbour neighbourhoods

Vancouver has some of the most concentrated media ownership in all of Canada.The Vancouver Sun,The Province, theNational Post, and 12 community newspapers are all owned by Postmedia Network. Partly in response to that concentration, a group of journalists — many of them ex-Sun employees — started up an online news publication,The Tyee, that posts news and opinion pieces on a nearly daily basis.

As of the 2000s there were various formats of media catering to ethnic minorities. They included 80 newspapers, 24 magazines, 15 television stations, 15 radio stations, and 10 printed business directories and online publications. Daniel Ahadi and Catherine A. Murray, the authors of "Urban Mediascapes and Multicultural Flows: Assessing Vancouver’s Communication Infrastructure," wrote that publication turnover, or the creation and failure and publications, was very high.^[9]

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