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| Type | Dailynewspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | Postmedia Network |
| Editor | Harold Munro |
| Founded | 1898 |
| Headquarters | 400-2985 Virtual Way Vancouver, British Columbia V5M 4X7 |
| ISSN | 0839-3311 |
| Website | theprovince |
The Province is a dailynewspaper published intabloid format inBritish Columbia by Pacific Newspaper Group, a division ofPostmedia Network, alongside theVancouver Sunbroadsheet newspaper. Together, they are British Columbia's only two major newspapers.[1]
Formerly a broadsheet,[2]The Province later became tabloid paper-size. It publishes daily except Saturdays, Mondays (as of October 17, 2022) and selected holidays.[3]
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The Province was established as a weekly newspaper inVictoria in 1894. A 1903 article in thePacific Monthly described theProvince as the largest and the youngest of Vancouver's important newspapers.[4]
In 1923, the Southam family boughtThe Province. By 1945, the paper's printers went out on strike.The Province had been the best selling newspaper in Vancouver, ahead of theVancouver Sun andNews Herald. As a result of the six-week strike, it lost significant market share, at one point falling to third place. In 1957,The Province and theVancouver Sun were sold to Pacific Press Limited which was jointly owned by both newspaper companies.
A 1970 strike by Pacific Press employees shut down theSun andProvince for three months; in the interim, theVancouver Express published daily editions. It ended on May 13 and resulted in increased pay for employees and a trustee pension fund with a board that included management and union representatives.[5]
The Province has seen, like mostCanadian daily newspapers, a decline incirculation. Its total circulation dropped by 30 percent to 114,467 copies daily from 2009 to 2015.[6]
At 2 p.m. on March 23, 1922, theProvince launched radio station CFCB, with news and stock market reports. There were news bulletins throughout the day, followed by music. Sign off was at 10 p.m. The station's name changed to CKCD in 1923 and it moved to 730 kHz in 1925. In 1933 the paper turned its operations over to the Pacific Broadcasting Co., while continuing to supply news reports to the station.
In 1936, the newly formedCanadian Broadcasting Corporation, established to function as both broadcaster and broadcasting regulator (taking over the latter function from previous regulator theDepartment of Marine and Fisheries), asked CKCD to relinquish its licence, and the station signed off for the last time in February 1940.[8]
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