Media in Vancouver

Vancouver has four Chinese-language daily newspapers, Ming Pao, Sing Tao, World Journal and The Epoch Times.

Ming Pao and Sing Tao cater to a Cantonese-speaking readership whereas World Journal and The 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.

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.

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 comic Harold Hedd.

During this period the Straight's owner and publisher, Dan MacLeod, was repeatedly harassed by the city and its anti-hippie mayor Tom Campbell.

[3] Global BC is the most popular evening newscast in the city, though CTV 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'.

American network affiliates on Vancouver cable are from Seattle, Washington, including KOMO (ABC), KING (NBC), KIRO (CBS), KCTS (PBS), KCPQ (Fox), KZJO (MyNetworkTV) and KUNS (The CW) along with independent stations KSTW and KONG.

750 Burrard Street on the northeast corner of Burrard and Robson Street in Downtown Vancouver . The building serves as the headquarters for CTV Vancouver .
Vancouver's two major daily newspapers, The Vancouver Sun and The Province , are both headquartered at Granville Square .
A Global BC microwave ENG van