OTTAWA – Residents in the nation's capital now have a new source for local news with the launch of OttawaMatters.com.
With editorial coverage led by Rogers Media's news and talk radio station 1310 NEWS, the digital news site provides breaking local news coverage, feature stories, entertainment, obituaries, classifieds community events, and weather.
The site also offers a live stream video from Rogers tv Ottawa, including morning talk show Ottawa Today with Mark Sutcliffe, daytime Ottawa and Ottawa Eats, plus coverage of high school sports and local events.
OttawaMatters.com will serve residents of Ottawa, the Ottawa Valley, and Gatineau. Through a collaboration with Village Media, the digital news network provides the platform to offer OttawaMatters.com on smartphone, desktop, and tablet.
"1310 NEWS and Rogers tv take great pride in serving Ottawa audiences, and the launch of OttawaMatters.com allows us to further our investment in the community as we continue to evolve in today's shifting media landscape," said 1310 News director of news programming Mark Campbell, in the news release. "With the recent changes in the market, we saw an opportunity to serve this community even better by expanding our local news coverage through the creation of a site dedicated to stories reflective of this region."
Rogers Media is the exclusive advertising representative for Canadian advertising inventory on the site.
