The owners of the Hamilton Spectator have acquired two more local newspapers. CityMedia Group purchased the weekly papers in Caledonia and Glanbrook earlier this month. It already owns the Spectator, the Mountain News, the Dundas Star, the Stoney Creek News and the Ancaster News.

CityMedia Group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Torstar Incorporation, the publishers of the Toronto Star. Spectator publisher Jagoda Pike is the President of CityMedia Group which also owns three other dailies - the Guelph Mercury, the Kitchener-Waterloo Record and the Cambridge Times.

The acquisition of the Glanbrook weekly means nearly all of Hamilton 's daily and weekly newspapers are now controlled by one company. The only exceptions are View Magazine, and the student papers at McMaster and Mohawk.

The Star is the largest-circulation newspaper in Canada , with daily sales approaching half a million copies. Torstar owns Metroland Newspapers, which publishes the Flamborough Review, the Burlington Post and the Grimsby/Lincoln News. Other Metroland publications distributed in Hamilton include City Parent, Forever Young, and the Real Estate News.

Hamilton 's television station is owned by CanWest Global which also runs the National Post and the St. Catharines Standard newspapers as well as the Global Television Network.