Best of MTL 2013: Media

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Nowhere in Montreal is the whole two solitudes thing more apparent than in our city’s media. Judging by your choices in categories like Best Radio Show (CKUT’s Venus Radio), Best TV Station (CTV) and Best Newspaper (Cult MTL—thanks, dudes!), you are, startlingly enough, a largely anglophone bunch. Nonetheless, you picked Urbania—a French-language culture publication that earlier this year dedicated an issue to us square-heads—as your favourite magazine, and Radio-Canada’s Patrice Roy and Véronique Cloutier cracked Best Newscaster and Best Local TV Personality, respectively. As for radio, though he spent a few years in Alberta, you never lost your love for Terry Dimonte, and you’re apparently fans of Team 690 stalwart Mitch Melnick, too. And because we know there’s no end to your love for Mutsumi Takahashi (Best Local Newscaster, Best Local TV Personality), we reached out to her to find out what she thinks of you.

Best Radio Station
1 CKUT 90.3FM
2 CJLO 1690AM
3 CISM 89.3FM
4 CHOM 97.7FM
5 CBC 88.5FM/93.5FM
6 Virgin 96FM
7 The Beat 92.5FM
8 TSN 690AM
9 CJAD 800AM
10 CIBL 101.5FM

Best Radio Show
1 Venus (CKUT 90.3FM)
2 Daybreak (CBC Radio One 88.5FM)
3 Go-Go Radio Magic Show (CJLO 1690AM)
4 Melnick in the Afternoon (TSN 690AM)
5 Underground Sounds (CKUT 90.3FM)
6 Hooked on Sonics (CJLO 1690AM)
7 C’est bien meilleur le matin (CBF 95.1FM)
8 Edge of the City (nomoreradio.com)
9 Beat of the Night (The Beat 92.5FM)
10 The Goods (CKUT90.3FM)

Best Local Radio Host
1 Terry Dimonte (CHOM 97.7FM)
2 Mitch Melnick (TSN 690AM)
3 Aaron Rand (CJAD 800AM)
4 Jeremy White (The Beat 92.5FM)
5 Tony Stark (Virgin Radio)
6 Prince Palu (CJLO 1690AM)
7 Omar El Gamal (Sense.FM)
8 Paul Aflalo (nomoreradio.com)
9 Julie Matson (CKUT 90.3FM)
10 Mike Finnerty (CBC 88.5FM/93.5FM)

Best TV Station
1 CTV
2 CBC
3 Radio-Canada
4 Global
5 RDS
6 CUTV
7 Télé Québec
8 TVA
9 Art TV
10 RDI

Best Local Newscaster
1 Mutsumi Takahashi (CTV)
2 Andrew Chang (CBC)
3 Paul Karwatsky (CTV)
4 Patrice Roy (Radio-Canada)
5 Peter Anthony Holden (Global)
6 Debra Arbec (CTV)
7 Pascale Nadeau (Radio-Canada)
8 Celine Galipeau (Radio-Canada)
9 Amy Luft (CTV)
10 Sophie Thibault (TVA)

Best Local TV Personality
1 Mutsumi Takahashi (CTV)
2 Frank Cavallaro (CBC)
3 Chuck Hughes (Food Network Canada)
4 Véronique Cloutier (Radio-Canada)
5 Lori Graham (CTV)
6 Jean-René Dufort (Radio-Canada)
7 Randy Tieman (CTV)
8 Marc Labrèche (Radio-Canada)
9 Dimitrios Koussioulas (CBC)
10 Guy A. Lepage (Radio-Canada)

Best Magazine/Zine
1 Urbania
2 Vice
3 Maisonneuve
4 Nouveau Projet
5 Snap!
6 Nightlife
7 Dress to Kill
8 Worn
9 LouLou

Best Newspaper
1 Cult MTL
2 The Gazette
3 Le Devoir
4 La Presse
5 Journal de Montréal
6 Mirror (RIP)
7 Metro
8 Hour (RIP)
9 McGill Daily
10 Suburban

Best Local Website
1 Cult MTL (cultmontreal.com)
2 MTL Blog (mtlblog.com)
3 Hot Soupe (hotsoupe.com)
4 Midnight Poutine (midnightpoutine.ca)
5 Forget the Box (forgetthebox.net)
6 High on Beats (highonbeats.com)
7 Montreal City Weblog (w5.montreal.com/mtlweblog/)
8 Bloody Underrated (bloodyunderrated.net)
9 Nightlife (nightlife.ca)
10 Mook Life (RIP)

Best Podcast
1 Midnight Poutine
2 Edge of the City
3 Laughmatic
4 Geek Collectif
5 High on Beats
6 Dirty Feet
7 Highcast
8 The Lantern
9 The Bi-Quarterly Women’s Social Club
10 On Repeat

Best Twitter Feed
1 @Fagstein
2 @MTLBlog
3 @EvanDubinsky
4 @CultMTL
5 @SPVM/#Manifencours
6 @TristanGinger
7 @LeBelmont
8 @MTLConcerts
9 @SPVM
10 @shutupandeatMTL

Best Instagram Feed
1 MTLBlog
2 Tristan Harris
3 LiveMontreal
4 NakedThursdays
5 ShutUpAndEatMTL
6 DavidBoots
7 SalonHelmet
8 Montreal Gazette
9 Montrealistik
10 Safesolvent