Best of MTL 2015: Media

Debra Arbec There is no stopping Mutsumi Takahashi, whose stern/playful, hot/cold demeanour has won over generations of Montreal news viewers — she is Best Newscaster and Best TV Personality once more. CKUT continues to rule the college radio scene, though CJLO makes its presence felt with the ever-popular Go-Go Radio Magic Show, and U of […]

Debra Arbec
Debra Arbec

There is no stopping Mutsumi Takahashi, whose stern/playful, hot/cold demeanour has won over generations of Montreal news viewers — she is Best Newscaster and Best TV Personality once more. CKUT continues to rule the college radio scene, though CJLO makes its presence felt with the ever-popular Go-Go Radio Magic Show, and U of M’s CISM sneaks in at #5 Best Radio Station. We’ve had an upset in Best Twitter Feed, with Tinder stud Evan Dubinsky falling out of the Top 5 and the tweeter formerly known as @fairmountbagel taking the top spot. And thank you, dear readers, for voting Cult MTL into the top spots for Best Newspaper and Website (and Best Magazine, though we once again disqualified ourselves there). And if you’re wondering who Éric Salvail is, he’s a V channel vedette with a cheese-eating grin.

Best Radio Station
1 CKUT 90.3FM
2 CHOM 97.7FM
3 CJLO 1690AM
4 CBC 88.5FM/93.5FM
5 CISM 89.3FM
6 Virgin Radio 96FM
7 CJAD 800AM
8 The Beat 92.5FM
9 TSN 690AM
10 Ici/Radio-Canada 91.9FM

Best Radio Show
1 Underground Sounds (CKUT 90.3FM)
2 Venus Radio (CKUT 90.3FM)
3 Daybreak (CBC Radio One 88.5FM)
4 The Go-Go Radio Magic Show (CJLO 1690AM)
5 La Soirée est (encore) jeune (Ici/Radio-Canada))
6 The Starting Rotation (CJLO 1690AM)
7 Mornings Rock (CHOM 97.7FM)
8 Montreal Rocks (CHOM 97.7FM)
9 Melnick in the Afternoon (TSN 690AM)
10 WireTap (CBC Radio One 88.5FM)

Best Radio Host
1 Nick Schofield (CKUT 90.3FM)
2 Terry DiMonte (CHOM 97.7FM)
3 Mike Finnerty (CBC Radio One 88.5FM)
4 Mitch Melnick (TSN 690AM)
5 Jason Rockman (CHOM 97.7FM)
6 Jacob Greco (CJLO 1690AM)
7 Bilal Butt (CHOM 97.7FM)
8 Andrew Carter (CJAD 800AM)
9 Aaron Rand (CJAD 800AM)
10 Jay Walker (CHOM 97.7FM)

Best TV Station
1 CTV
2 CBC
3 ICI/Radio-Canada
4 RDS
5 Global
6 Télé-Quebec
7 City TV
8 TVA
9 ArtTV
10 CUTV

Best Newscaster
1 Mutsumi Takahashi
2 Paul Karwatsky
3 Debra Arbec
4 Céline Galipeau
5 Christine Long
6 Joanne Vrakas
7 Bernard Derome
8 Pierre Bruneau
9 Anne-Marie Dussault
10 Patrice Roy

Best TV Personality
1 Mutsumi Takahashi
2 Éric Salvail
3 Lori Graham
4 Sugar Sammy
5 Guy A. Lepage
6 Chuck Hughes
7 Christine Long
8 Joanne Vrakas
9 Claude Legault
10 Véronique Cloutier

Best Magazine
1 Urbania
2 Maisonneuve
3 Editorial
4 Vice
5 Nouveau Projet
6 Fugues
7 Dress to Kill
8 LouLou
9 Nightlife
10 Caribou

Best Newspaper
1 Cult MTL
2 The Gazette
3 La Presse
4 Le Devoir
5 Métro
6 The Link
7 Journal de Montréal
8 Voir
9 The Suburban
10 The Concordian

Best Website
1 Cult MTL (cultmontreal.com)
2 MTL Blog (mtlblog.com)
3 Nightlife (nightlife.ca)
4 Montreal City Weblog (w5.montreal.com/mtlweblog/)
5 Sooo MTL (mmttllblog.wordpress.com)
6 Fagstein (blog.fagstein.com)
7 Vice (vice.com/en_ca/)
8 Urbania (urbania.ca)
9 Stop MTL Blog (stopmtlblog.to)
10 Pornhub (pornhub.com)

Best Twitter
1 Fairmount Bagel (now @mtlbagelboy)
2 Fagstein (@fagstein)
3 Cult MTL (@CultMTL)
4 Tranna Wintour (@TrannaWintour)
5 Tristan Ginger (@TristanGinger)
6 MTL Blog (@mtlblog)
7 Denis Coderre (@DenisCoderre)
8 Erik Leijon (@eleijon)
9 Evan Dubinsky (@evandubinsky)
10 Jay Baruchel (@BaruchelNDG)

Best Instagram
1 Tranna Wintour (@TrannaWintour)
2 Tristan Ginger (@TristanGinger)
3 Live Montreal (@LiveMontreal)
4 Shut Up and Eat MTL (@shutupandeatMTL)
5 Ali Inayi (@inayali)

Best Podcast
1 Edge of the City
2 Serial
3 Go Plug Yourself
4 Dirty Feet
5 Music’s Mitosis
6 WireTap
7 Ask Hua Li
8 Radio Cannon
9 Canadaland
10 Psy Factor and the Cougar

 

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