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Photo: As of Thursday, there is one less station on Ottawa’s radio dial. Ottawa took another hit to local news availability this week, with Rogers shutting down the CityNews radio station. The cutback includes laying off 10 employees, a number of whom have worked at the news station for many years. ...

The Ottawa BlackJacks of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) and TSN announced Monday they have reached a regional radio broadcast rights agreement that will again make TSN 1200 Ottawa the official radio broadcaster of the Ottawa BlackJacks for the 2021 CEBL season. ...

Photo: Lucy van Oldenbarneveld / via CBC Ottawa Two big names in Ottawa media announced some news this past week… Lucy van Oldenbarneveld will leave CBC Ottawa at the end of June. The TV anchor hasn’t said what’s next for her, but we know it’s not a retirement. ...

Better change your radio presets — one of Ottawa’s AM stations is making the jump to FM. Late last week, the Rogers-owned 1310 News rebranded itself to CityNews Ottawa and took over the 101.1 MHz FM frequency from its sister station, Country. ...

(Devyn Barrie photo) Steve Warne, Dean Roberts and James Abson are out at TSN 1200. It looks like Warne broke the news via Twitter on Wednesday morning: Today was my final show on @TSN1200. Thanks to Bell Media for a great run. ...

The Morning Hot Tub (from left): Mauler, Rush, Jennie and Josie. (Photo by Maggie McAdam/Hot 89.9) And then there were three. Hot 89.9’s popular morning drive show is now with one fewer host, after Josie Fenech left the show on Friday. ...

[caption id=“attachment_89416” align=“aligncenter” width=“442”] Daniels. (LinkedIn)[/caption] Boom 99.7 announced on Monday that Wendy Daniels is no longer with the station, due to a programming change. Daniels, who came to the station via the former 106.9 The Bear, posted a goodbye message to Facebook shortly after. ...

[caption id=“attachment_88624” align=“aligncenter” width=“800”] Long-time Stittsville resident Sandra Plagakis in front of the Welcome to Stittsville sign on Hazeldean Road. Photo by Barry Gray / StittsvilleCentral.ca[/caption] _ Here’s an excerpt from a profile of KiSS 105.3 morning host Sandra Plagakis that was published recently on our sister site, StittsvilleCentral. ...

Less than two weeks after parting ways with Carter Brown, KiSS 105.3 in Ottawa is about to add a new voice into their morning show. More uniquely, KiSS will also be adding a new voice to the one they already have on the afternoon show. ...

The numbers are out. It may take a keen eye to notice who’s won and who’s lost, or it may not. While the topline numbers don’t always tell the whole story, they are all we have to digest. Sometimes the best way to tell who won and lost is how individual stations react to these numbers. ...