The Newfoundland Herald is a weekly magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 available throughout Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it incorporates the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador with a combined area of . As of April 2011, the province's estimated population is 508,400...

, Canada

Canada

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, published in St. John's

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

St. John's is the capital and largest city in Newfoundland and Labrador, and is the oldest English-founded city in North America. It is located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. With a population of 192,326 as of July 1, 2010, the St...

. Owned by Stirling Communications International, a company run by Geoff Stirling

Geoff Stirling

Geoffrey William Stirling is a Canadian businessman. Stirling, along with other members of his family, owns several media outlets in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador under the corporate brand Stirling Communications International...

, the Herald is part news magazine, part entertainment

Entertainment

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 magazine, and includes television

Television

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 listings for the province. It is generally distributed in convenience stores, supermarkets, and through door-to-door delivery.

Founded as The Sunday Herald on May 12, 1946, the Herald was originally a tabloid newspaper

Newspaper

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 with, in Stirling's words, "a little something for everyone". After Stirling's CJON-TV

CJON-TV

CJON-DT is a Canadian English language television station broadcasting on channel 21 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with additional transmitters and cable coverage throughout the province. It is known on-air as NTV, for Newfoundland Television...

 came on the air, the publication's focus gradually shifted towards celebrity

Celebrity

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 and entertainment features, eventually switching to a magazine format, and becoming Newfoundland's primary source of TV listings. (TV Guide

TV Guide (Canada)

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 was never widely available in the province.) Since the early 2000s, current events-related items and cover stories have been more common, as the publication seeks to reduce its dependence on the TV listings aspects given the growing influence of electronic program guide

Electronic program guide

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s. Presently, new issues of the Herald are generally released on Monday and dated the following Sunday, with listings running Sunday to Saturday.

The Herald frequently cross-promotes with sister media outlets NTV

CJON-TV

CJON-DT is a Canadian English language television station broadcasting on channel 21 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with additional transmitters and cable coverage throughout the province. It is known on-air as NTV, for Newfoundland Television...

 and OZ FM

CHOZ-FM

CJMY and CKMY were previously known as CKCV and CHOS respectively, up to at least 2002. The changes were apparently made to reserve appropriate call signs for "My FM", Newfoundland Broadcasting's proposal for a second FM service, which went before the CRTC later that same year...

; NTV programs are featured frequently (sometimes, in the case of NTV's newscasts, multiple times a year) on the Heralds front cover, whereas competing channels' shows are seldom featured.