Calgary Sun
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | Quebecor |
| Founded | 1980 |
| Political allegiance | Conservative |
| Headquarters | Calgary, Alberta |
| Website | www.calgarysun.com |
The Calgary Sun is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is a division of Sun Media, a Quebecor company.
First published in 1983, the tabloid-format daily replaced the long-running broadsheet newspaper, The Albertan soon after it was acquired by the publishers of the Toronto Sun.
The newspaper, like most of those in the Canadian Sun chain, are known for short, snappy news stories aimed primarily at working class readers. The Sun's layout is based somewhat upon that of British tabloids.
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[edit] Features
[edit] Page Six
Page Six has traditionally been a "gossip" or light-hearted current events/opinion page focusing on local events. Currently, the Calgary Page Six is written by Kelly Doody, a former Canadian National team swimmer.
[edit] Sunshine Girl
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It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Sunshine Girl. (Discuss) |
The Sunshine Girl, is a daily photograph of a female model, often dressed in a bikini.
[edit] Local weeklies
For many years, the Calgary Sun also published a popular local weekly, The Calgary Mirror, which covered community news; the Sun organization purchased the newspaper in the early 1990s. This publication, which originated in the 1950s and was also known at one time as North Hill News, was discontinued in 2001. It was succeeded by FYI Calgary In-Print, a free weekly newspaper intended to be a print equivalent of the Sun's much-publicized FYI Calgary news website (there was also an FYI Toronto newspaper published to tie-in with the Toronto Sun's website). The new publication failed to click with readers and advertisers and was discontinued in May 2001 during a downsizing of Sun Media; the website abandoned the FYI concept about a year later and rebranded itself as Calgarysun.com.
[edit] Format
On Oct. 2, 2006, the Sun underwent a major redesign, introducing a new logo (actually it finally adopted the logo used at several other Sun newspapers for several years previously), and revamping its typeface usage for both bodytext and headlines. In February 2007, Sun Media launched a Calgary edition of its free daily 24 Hours, which shares editors and editorial staff with the Calgary Sun.
[edit] Distribution and circulation
The Calgary Sun is one of four daily newspapers currently serving the Calgary area. The second is the Calgary Herald. The third and fourth are "Metro News" and "Rush Hour News". Distribution is done by subscription, direct sale (such as at newsstands), or by newspaper box. The latter was the target of public debate by City Council in early 2008 when at least one alderman claimed that the newspaper boxes were responsible for increased states of litter on public transit.
