Best of MTL 2014: Media

Mutsumi and her network reign supreme once again, as does CKUT 90.3FM, its host Nick Schofield (full disclosure: he’s one of our music critics!) and his show, the CKUT legacy program Underground Sounds. New to this category this year are the folks from City TV, Breakfast Television co-host Joanne Vrakas (formerly of CBC and MusiquePlus) and Matt Silver of the short-lived Only in Montreal show (but you probably know him from Sparrow, or Kidnapper Films, or something), as well as The Editorial magazine and the Radio Cannon podcast, formerly known as Midnight Poutine. Nice rebrand you guys.

Best Radio Station
1 CKUT 90.3FM
2 CJLO 1690AM
3 CBC 88.5FM/93.3FM
4 CHOM 97.7FM
5 CISM 89.3FM
6 Virgin Radio 96
7 CJAD 800AM
8 Radio-Canada
9 TSN 690
10 The Beat

Best Radio Show
1 Underground Sounds
(CKUT 90.3FM)
2 Venus Radio
(CKUT 90.3FM)
3 Melnick in the Afternoon
(TSN 690)
4 Daybreak
(CBC Radio One 88.5FM)
5 Go-Go Radio Show
(CJLO 1690AM)
6 Midnight Love Affair
(CJLO 1690AM)
7 WireTap
(CBC Radio One 88.5FM)
8 New Noise
(CJLO 1690AM)
9 Roots Rock Rebel
(CKUT 90.3FM)
10 The Goods
(CKUT 90.3FM)

Best Radio Host
1 Nick Schofield
(CKUT 90.3FM)
2 Mitch Melnick
(TSN 690AM)
3 Mike Finnerty
(CBC Radio One 88.5FM)
4 Aaron Rand
(CJAD 800AM)
5 Runt
(CJLO 1690AM)
6 Terry DiMonte
(CHOM 97.7FM)
7 Jonathan Goldstein
(CBC Radio One 88.5FM)
8 Freeway Frank
(Virgin Radio, 95.9FM)
9 Catherine Perrin
(Radio-Canada/ICI 91.9FM)
10 Paul Aflalo
(No More Radio, nomoreradio.com)

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

Best Newscaster
1 Mutsumi Takahashi
(CTV)
2 Andrew Chang
(CBC)
3 Paul Karwatsky
(CTV)
4 Pierre Bruneau
(TVA)
5 Patrice Roy
(Radio-Canada/ICI)
6 Debra Arbec
(CBC)
7 Céline Galipeau
(Radio-Canada/ICI)
8 Pascale Nadeau
(Radio-Canada/ICI)
9 Todd van der Heyden
(CTV)
10 Sophie Thibeault
(TVA)

Best TV Personality
1 Mutsumi Takahashi (CTV)
2 Veronique Cloutier (Radio-Canada/ICI)
3 Lori Graham (CTV)
4 Joanne Vrakas (City TV)
5 Matt Silver (City TV)
6 Sugar Sammy (V)
7 Chuck Hughes (Food Network Canada)
8 Antoine Bertrand (Radio-Canada/ICI)
9 Christine Long (CTV)
10 Amy Luft (CTV)

Best Magazine/Zine
1 Urbania
2 Maisonneuve
3 Vice
4 The Editorial
5 Nouveau Projet
6 Dress to Kill
7 Four Minutes to Kill
8 Matrix
9 Loulou
10 Worn

Best Newspaper
1 Cult MTL
2 The Gazette
3 Le Devoir
4 La Presse
5 Metro
6 Voir
7 Journal de Montréal
8 The Globe and Mail
9 The McGill Daily
10 24 Heures

Best Website
1 Cult MTL (cultmontreal.com)
2 MTL Blog (mtlblog.com)
3 Montreal City Weblog (w5.montreal.com/mtlweblog/)
4 Nightlife (nightlife.ca)
5 Petit Petit Gamin (petitpetitgamin.com)
6 Midnight Poutine (midnightpoutine.ca)
7 Urbania (urbania.ca)
8 Bloody Underrated (bloodyunderrated.net)
9 Ton Petit Look (tonpetitlook.com)
10 IX Daily (ixdaily.com)

Best Twitter Feed
1 @Fagstein
2 @EvanDubinsky
3 @CultMTL
4 @TristanGinger
5 @mtlblog
6 @Marilisc
7 @DenisCoderre
8 @SPVM

Best Instagram Feed
1 MTL Blog
2 Cult MTL
3 Tristan Ginger
4 LiveMontreal
5 M4Mikey

Best Podcast
1 Radio Cannon
2 Edge of the City
3 Go Plug Yourself
4 Geek Collectif
5 Questionable at Best

 

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