Citytv

Type	Broadcast television system
Country	Canada
Availability	Semi-national (urban Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan, much of B.C. and Manitoba); parts of the northern U.S. via digital cable
Founded	by Channel Seventy-Nine Ltd. (Phyllis Switzer, Moses Znaimer, Jerry Grafstein and Edgar Cowan, among others)
Slogan	Everywhere!
Owner	Rogers Broadcasting Ltd.
Key people	Scott Moore - President of Broadcasting, Rogers Media
Launch date	September 28, 1972 (independent Toronto station) July 22, 2002 (launch of the Citytv system)
Official website	citytv.com

Citytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division. The system currently consists of five owned and operated television stations located in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver, as well as four independently owned affiliates serving Saskatchewan as well as smaller cities in Alberta and British Columbia. It is generally considered part of the second tier of Canadian English-language broadcast television services, alongside CTV Two. The Citytv brand has also been licensed to television stations outside of Canada.

Citytv stations originally had an intensely local format based on newscasts aimed at younger viewers, nightly movies, and music and cultural programming. Moses Znaimer, who developed the original format, once described the system's philosophy by saying, "It's not the show, it's the flow". Since the late 2000s, and particularly since its acquisition by Rogers, Citytv has moved towards a series-based primetime schedule much like its competitors, albeit one still focused on younger demographics.

History[link]

The original Citytv station, granted callsign CITY-TV by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), was founded in Toronto in 1972 and began broadcasting for the first time on September 28 under the ownership of Channel Seventy-Nine Ltd; CHUM Limited acquired the station in 1981. Broadcasting on UHF channel 79 through its first decade, the station moved to channel 57 in 1983, until moving to UHF 44 with the digital switchover. In 1987, the station moved its headquarters from the former Electric Circus night club at 99 Queen Street East to 299 Queen Street West, formerly known as the Ryerson Press Building (then known as the CHUM-City Building); one of the most recognizable landmarks in the city. On September 8, 2009, Citytv moved to its current location at Yonge-Dundas Square at 33 Dundas Street East.^[1]

Citytv gained a second station in Vancouver when CHUM bought CKVU from Canwest Global in 2001. The station became Citytv Vancouver on July 22, 2002. Prior to CHUM's acquisition of CKVU, some Citytv programming was syndicated to KVOS in nearby Bellingham, Washington.

In 2004, CHUM bought Craig Media Inc., parent of the A-Channel system in Manitoba and Alberta. The Craig-owned A-Channel stations were relaunched as Citytv on August 2, 2005; the same date when CHUM's NewNet (The New VR, The New WI, the New PL, etc.) stations were rebranded under the A-Channel banner.

On July 12, 2006, Citytv parent CHUM Limited announced plans to sell its broadcasting assets to CTV parent CTVglobemedia. CTVgm initially intended to retain CHUM's Citytv system while divesting CHUM's A-Channel stations and Access Alberta in order for the CRTC to approve the acquisition.^[2] On the same day that the takeover was announced, Citytv canceled its supper hour, late night, and weekend newscasts at its local Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg stations, laying off hundreds of news department staff.

In October 2006, Citytv launched a daily national newscast, CityNews International. It is produced in Toronto for broadcast on the western Canadian stations, as well as on CHUM's Toronto news channel CP24. The Edmonton and Calgary stations also began broadcasting a daily 30-minute magazine show, Your City, instead of a full-fledged newscast. The Vancouver news operation, which had operated for 30 years under various owners and station identities, was not maintained aside from BT.

In the same month, Citytv Toronto began broadcasting local news in high-definition, becoming the first television station in Canada to do so.

On June 8, 2007, the CRTC approved the CTV takeover of CHUM. However, the CRTC made the deal conditional on CTV divesting itself of Citytv, because they already have CTV O&O stations serving the very same cities (CFTO-TV Toronto, CIVT-TV Vancouver, CFCN-TV Calgary, CFRN-TV Edmonton, and CKY-TV Winnipeg) as it would have exceeded the CRTC's concentration of media ownership limits. As a result, CTV announced on June 11, 2007, that it would retain the A-Channel stations, and sell off the Citytv stations to Rogers Communications for $375 million.^[3][4] The transaction was approved by the CRTC on September 28 and was completed on October 31, 2007.

The Jim Pattison Group announced in July 2009 that its three television stations in western Canada, formerly affiliated with E!, would broadcast the entire Citytv program lineup starting on September 1, 2009.^[5] As these stations are not located in major urban centres, they do not carry Citytv branding; instead, they opted to keep the same names and logos used as affiliates of the E! system. Moreover while the Pattison-owned Citytv affiliates produce local newscasts, they do not produce their own versions of Breakfast Television nor title their midday and evening newscasts under the CityNews brand like the Citytv O&Os do. The agreement was originally slated to run through August 2012, however Rogers signed a long-term affiliation renewal agreement on May 3, 2012, allowing the Pattison stations to carry 90% of primetime programming and the majority of morning and daytime programming from the programming grid of CKVU-DT (including simulcasts of the Vancouver edition of Breakfast Television; however unlike CKVU, the Pattison stations will continue to produce midday and evening local newscasts).^[6]

On December 6, 2010, CityNews Tonight Toronto anchor/Citytv continuity voice-over, Mark Dailey died after a long battle with cancer.^[7]

On December 20, 2011, Bluepoint Investment Corporation announced an affiliation agreement with Rogers Communications to air Citytv programming on the Saskatchewan Communications Network from 3 p.m.-6 a.m. CT daily, as of January 2, 2012. This block of programming will follow the national program grid of Citytv and be known on-air as Citytv on SCN; the SCN affiliation agreement gave the Citytv system affiliations in all provinces west of Quebec and south of the federal territories of Northern Canada.^[8] On January 17, 2012, Rogers announced its intent to acquire SCN outright from Bluepoint Investment Corporation, pending approval by the CRTC. Rogers plans to rename the channel as Citytv Saskatchewan, invest into improving its infrastructure, and also launch a high definition feed for SCN.^[9]

On May 3, 2012, Rogers announced its intent to acquire Montreal multicultural station CJNT-DT from Toronto-based Channel Zero and announced an affiliation agreement with the station, effective June 4, 2012 (like the Jim Pattison Citytv affiliates, CJNT was formerly affiliated with the CH / E! system prior to its shutdown). With the CJNT affiliation agreement, Citytv will have affiliations in all provinces west of Atlantic Canada and the first affiliated station located east of the Greater Toronto Area.^[10]

Programming[link]

Old version of the Citytv logo.

Citytv is well known for its unconventional approach to news and local programming. There is no news desk (anchors read the news standing up, or on stools), and cameras are sometimes hand-held. Citytv also pioneered the concept of videojournalism, where reporters often carry their own cameras and report and videotape their own stories. Citytv calls its videojournalists "videographers", but unlike many American television markets that try to conceal the fact that reporters are so-called "one-man bands", Citytv embraced the use of video journalism by highlighting the use of technology; Citytv videographers often carry a second home video camera to record images of them videotaping on the scene. The low-grade video is then incorporated into the final story to show viewers how the story was recorded.

At its peak, Citytv Toronto produced more local programs than any other television station in Canada, such as Speakers' Corner, CityLine and was the original home of FashionTelevision, SexTV, and MediaTelevision. Citytv also airs The Quon Dynasty, a reality restaurant show based in Edmonton, AB. Many of these series were not strictly focused on Toronto – FT, for instance, consists largely of foreign runway footage – and are easily syndicated to other CHUM outlets. The latter three shows are owned by CTVglobemedia as a result of its takeover of CHUM and subsequent divesting of the Citytv stations.

Jill Belland covering the 2007 Calgary International Film Festival for Citytv

The station also attracted attention and controversy by airing Baby Blue Movies, or soft-core pornography, on Friday nights after midnight. Although this programming strategy was discontinued in the 1980s, it was reinstated on CITY and CKVU for short time in the early 2000s.

This, along with the 'hide away' place on the UHF dial formed the basis of fictional station "CIVIC TV" (Channel 83 Cable 12) in David Cronenberg's Videodrome, which is set in Toronto.

As well, CITY was one of the first television stations in Canada to implement a diversity policy in hiring its on-air staff, actively seeking out people of colour, people with disabilities, and other minority groups to work as on-air journalists. Znaimer originally described the policy as wanting the station to "look like Toronto".

Beginning in 1983, CITY began to produce a New Year's Eve special live from Nathan Phillips Square in Downtown Toronto. Currently known as the Citytv New Year's Eve Bash, the yearly concert special will expand to include a second event in Calgary, Alberta for its 2012 edition.

In 2008, Citytv dropped its Great Movies block and replaced it with either reruns, reality shows or infomercials.

News[link]

Citytv Toronto's CityNews, formerly known as CityPulse, had developed a large following, but ratings have since been steadily declining.^{[citation needed]} Other stations around the world have tried to imitate its format to varying degrees of success. However, Citytv itself was unsuccessful in expanding its audience to other markets, as evidenced by the recent cancellation of the other stations' traditional newscasts. Flagship station CITY-TV, along with Jim Pattison Group-owned affiliates CFJC-TV, CKPG-TV and CHAT-TV are currently the only Citytv stations producing midday or evening newscasts (though the Pattison stations brand by their individual callsigns, instead of branding under the Citytv name and do now the CityNews title for their weekday newscasts), Citytv's four other owned-and-operated broadcast stations only produce localized versions of the morning program franchise Breakfast Television.

Effects of the 2009–2010 economic crisis[link]

Due to the ongoing structural problems facing the conventional television sector in Canada and the global economic crisis, Rogers Media announced cost-cutting measures at the Citytv stations on January 19, 2010, which included massive layoffs and the cancellation of the following newscasts:

• CityNews at Noon in Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto
• Lunch Television in Vancouver
• Your City in Calgary and Edmonton which was an evening replacement for previous CityNews programming that was cancelled in 2006.
• The CityNews List in Vancouver, a comedic take on the news in Vancouver
• CityOnline, CityNews at Five and all weekend news programming in Toronto
• Citytv's national and international newscast, CityNews International

Citytv continues to produce Breakfast Television and CityLine for all markets, and CityNews at Six and CityNews Tonight in Toronto only (the evening newscasts in Toronto excluded weekend broadcasts until March 2011; the 5 p.m. newscast, meanwhile, would return in September 2011). In total, 60 Citytv employees (including long-time Toronto news anchor Anne Mroczkowski) have been laid off across Canada.^[11][12][13]

Sports[link]

Sports broadcasts on the Citytv stations have been sparse over the years. The predominant sports property in recent years has been National Football League football, but even this has been quite sporadic.

Craig Media (including the now-Citytv stations in Winnipeg and Alberta) owned the rights to Monday Night Football in the early 2000s, and these rights moved to Citytv for MNF's final season on ABC in 2005, before being moved again to TSN in 2006.

With the sale to Rogers, CKVU carried 4:00 p.m. ET games during the 2007 season (as did OMNI.2 in Toronto), under sublicence from Rogers Sportsnet. For the 2008 season, all Citytv stations now carry 4:00 games. Sportsnet carries a different game than the game broadcast by Citytv. CITY also airs selected Buffalo Bills preseason games (including those held at the Rogers Centre).

The Citytv station in Vancouver carried two regional NHL games during the 2009-10 season. The first telecast was on November 5, 2009 when CKVU televised the Vancouver Canucks hockey game due to a potential scheduling conflict on Rogers Sportsnet Pacific involving game 7 of the 2009 World Series. The second telecast was on February 14, 2010 due to another conflict on Rogers Sportsnet Pacific involving the 2010 Olympics.

The Citytv stations in Alberta (while still branded "A-Channel") carried some regional NHL games during their first few years. The most recent hockey broadcast was on December 3, 2009, when both CKEM and CKAL televised the Edmonton Oilers due to a conflict on Rogers Sportsnet West involving an NFL game. The previous game was on October 30, 2008, when only CKAL broadcast a Calgary Flames hockey game due to a scheduling conflict on Rogers Sportsnet West involving the 2008 World Series.

Citytv Toronto had also broadcast some regular-season basketball games during the inaugural season of the Toronto Raptors. On March 2, 2008, Citytv Toronto aired its first known baseball game, a Toronto Blue Jays spring training game, against the Cincinnati Reds. Citytv and the Toronto Blue Jays are both owned by Rogers.

Citytv HD[link]

In 2003, CHUM Limited launched an HD simulcast of its Toronto station CITY-TV. In October 2006, Citytv installed a new control room, becoming one of the first fully HD broadcasters in Canada. On March 2, 2010 CKVU-TV in Vancouver launched its HD simulcast. CKEM-DT in Edmonton began testing on May 26, 2010 and began regular HD broadcasting on June 29, 2010. CITY-DT-3 in Ottawa began testing on June 12, 2010 and regular broadcasting on June 18, 2010. CKAL-DT began testing on August 31, 2010.

Citytv HD is available nationally via satellite and on digital cable as well as for free via DTT using a regular TV antenna and a digital tuner (included in most new TVs) on the following channels:

• Calgary: 49 (5.1)
• Edmonton: 17 (51.1)
• Lethbridge: 46 (2.1)
• Toronto: 53 (57.1)
• Ottawa: 17 (65.1)
• Vancouver: 47 (10.1)
• Winnipeg: 13 (13.1)

CityNews Channel[link]

CityNews Channel logo.

Shortly after Rogers' takeover of the Citytv stations was complete, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission published an application under which Rogers would have acquired 20% of CP24, which was sold to CTVglobemedia as part of its $1.4 billion takeover offer of CHUM Limited in 2007.^[14] It is not clear from the available evidence whether this was directly tied to the sale of CHUM as opposed to any pre-existing rights Rogers may have had. In any event, the application was withdrawn prior to the scheduled hearing.^[15]

In July 2008, Rogers filed a new application with the CRTC to launch a separate 24-hour news station to be known as "CityNews Toronto". That application was approved by the CRTC on December 10 of that year. The new channel was initially slated to hit the airwaves in late 2009, however it was delayed due to the reconstruction and economic terms.^[16]

On May 30, 2011 Rogers announced plans to launch CityNews Channel in the fall of that year, with plans to incorporate elements of other Rogers-owned news properties including 680 News and Maclean's, in addition to Citytv Toronto.^[17] The channel officially launched on October 3, 2011 on Rogers Cable systems in the Toronto and Ottawa markets.

Citytv stations[link]

299 Queen Street West, the headquarters for Bell Media, formerly the home of Citytv Toronto. The CHUM and Citytv signs were removed after CTVglobemedia acquired control of CHUM Limited.

Individual stations are normally branded on-air as "Citytv"; the location may be added if disambiguation is necessary.

Owned-and-operated stations[link]

Note:

1) Italicized channel numbers indicate a digital channel allocated for future use by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

Affiliates[link]

Terrestrial[link]

Note:

^†) Rogers Media is currently in the process of acquiring CJNT, pending CRTC approval. The station will become a Citytv affiliate with some programming from Omni Television (in order to fulfill CJNT's license requirements as a multicultural station) starting June 4, 2012 under Channel Zero ownership prior to the close of purchase.

Cable and satellite-only[link]

• Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Communications Network (since January 2, 2012) - carried province-wide in Saskatchewan on cable television. Currently owned by Bluepoint Investment Corporation and licensed as an educational television service for the province of Saskatchewan, educational programming airs daily from 6 a.m.-2:59 p.m. CT. Rogers Media is purchasing SCN from Bluepoint, with the intent to rebrand the channel as Citytv Saskatchewan during all program hours and launch a high definition simulcast feed.^[9]

Past output deals[link]

Prior to 1997, CHUM owned two television outlets in Atlantic Canada: the ATV system of CTV affiliates, and cable-only channel ASN. Many Citytv programs were aired on either ATV or ASN during this period. Both ATV and ASN were acquired by Baton Broadcasting (now CTVglobemedia) in 1997; ASN continued to air much of the Citytv schedule until it became part of the A (now CTV Two) television system in 2008.

In the past, local rights to individual Citytv programs were sold to stations outside of the Toronto station's coverage area. In Vancouver, programs were split between KVOS in Bellingham, Washington, which is close to Vancouver, and CTV-owned CIVT, during the 1990s and early 2000s when Citytv did not have a station in Vancouver. The WIC stations in Alberta (including CITV and CICT) bought provincial rights to some Citytv programs prior to the launch of CKAL and CKEM in 1997.

International[link]

The Citytv brand has been licensed to local television stations in Bogotá, Colombia (Citytv Bogotá) and Barcelona, Spain (Citytv Barcelona). The latter station's licence agreement expired in 2006, and the station was renamed TD8.

Additionally, Toronto's CITY-TV is broadcast on a number of cable TV systems in the Caribbean. In Barbados, Citytv is on channel 507 of the terrestrial subscription service known as Multi-Choice TV.

In March 2006, CHUM signed an agreement with WRUA channel 34 in Fajardo, Puerto Rico to establish a Citytv franchise on that channel—a first in the United States.^[18] Rogers Media discontinued the licensing for WRUA, and the station now serves as a translator for WECN in Naranjito.

Current presenters[link]

List includes presenters from all Citytv stations and affiliates.

Kevin Frankish Dina Pugliese Frank Ferragine Jennifer Valentyne Francis D'Souza Gord Martineau Roger Petersen Audra Brown Hugh Burrill Kathryn Humphreys Natasha Ramsahai Sangita Patel Adam Stiles Melanie Ng Cynthia Mulligan Andrea Piunno Pam Seatle Avery Haines Tom Hayes Ana Vlachos Peter Kim Saphia Khambalia Shauna Hunt Galit Solomon Mary Kitchen Andrew Krystal Kevin Carrington Tammie Sutherland Tracy Moore Jenna Khan Pay Chen Jeremy John Kaleigh Hamilton Megan Batchelor Tara Slone Andrew Schultz Jill Belland Mike Yawney Mike McCourt Bridget Ryan Ryan Jespersen Michelle McDougal Carla Turner Stacy Brotzel Kyle Donaldson Michel McDermett Riaz Medghji Dawn Chubai Russ Lacare Greg Harper Thor Diakow Courtney Ketchen Meghan Duffy Past presenters[link] Toronto Zuraidah Alman - general assignment reporter (later with Global Toronto; now reporter AT CTV Toronto) Thalia Assuras (later with ABC and then CBS; now host on energyNOW!) Dan Aykroyd - original staff announcer (1972–73; later regular repertory player on NBC's Saturday Night Live from 1975–79; film and TV star, director and producer based in Hollywood since 1980) Bill Cameron (later with the CBC; died March 12, 2005) Lance Chilton - CityNews/CP24 reporter (later joined CKVR-TV in Barrie as co-anchor; retired from television; now a real estate agent and owner of Royal LePage Chilton Team in Barrie, Ontario) Jojo Chintoh - CityNews/CP24 reporter Denise Donlon (later CEO of Sony Canada, then executive director of CBC Radio English services from 2008–2011) Laura Di Battista (laid off in January 2010; now host of CBC Radio One 99.1 FM's Here and Now)[19] Marianne Dimain (laid off in January 2010; now general assignment reporter with Global Toronto) Dwight Drummond - crime specialist (now 6 p.m. co-anchor at CBC Toronto) Mark Dailey - anchor/continuity announcer (died from cancer on December 6, 2010) Merella Fernandez (laid off in January 2010; now reporter with CTV National News) Mary Garofalo (later at WNYW-TV in New York; now hosting 16x9 - The Bigger Picture on Global) Melissa Grelo - CityNews anchor/reporter (now co-host of CP24 Breakfast and weekday anchor on CP24) Lorne Honickman - CityPulse/CityNews legal specialist (now legal specialist and host of Legal Briefs on CP24) Bob Hunter (also founded Greenpeace; died after a prolonged battle with cancer on May 2, 2005) Dr. Karl Kebasele - medical specialist (now medical specialist for CP24) Jee-Yun Lee - general assignment reporter (now anchor/reporter for CP24 and CTV News) Avi Lewis (later at CBC; now with Al Jazeera English) Stephen Lewis - commentor (later appointed as Canadian ambassador to the United Nations; retired from public life) Muhammad Lila (later with CBC Toronto; now with ABC News) Amber MacArthur - CityNews new media specialist (now new media specialist for CP24) Richard Madan (now parliamentary reporter for CTV News in Ottawa) Jim McKenny (retired in late 2009) Mika Midolo - Toronto Transit Commission specialist and CityNews transit specialist (now at CP24 as transit specialist on CP24 Breakfast) Tracy Moore - Breakfast Television and CityNews reporter; now hosting Citytv's CityLine) Anne Mroczkowski (laid off in January 2010; now co-anchor of Global Toronto's News Hour) Farah Nasser (laid off January 2010; now reporter/anchor at CP24) David Onley - CityNews science and technology specialist, CP24 anchor and host of Homepage; became the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario in September 2007) Beatrice Politi - CityNews/A-Channel/CP24 Ottawa-based political specialist (now with Global Toronto) Dini Petty (now host of The Dini Petty Show for CTV; guest host for Cityline in Fall 2010) Alex Pierson - general assignment reporter (later with Global News in Toronto until 2011 (now co-anchor or morning show at Sun News Network in Toronto) Chris Potter - weekend meteorologist (later meteorologist with CBC News in Toronto; now weekday afternoon meteorologist at CP24) John Roberts (credited as J.D. Roberts), an entertainment reporter and weekend anchor now with CNN's American Morning program weekdays Ann Rohmer - Breakfast Television host, CityNews anchor and host of City OnLine (now on CP24 as a lead anchor) Tonya Rouse - CityNews/CP24 fitness specialist and host of CP24's Perfect Fit) Omar Sachedina - general assignment reporter (now reporter for CTV National News) Michael Serapio (laid off in January 2010; now Toronto-based reporter with CBC News Network) John Saunders - sportscaster (now with ESPN) Russ Salzberg - sportscaster (now with WWOR-TV/WNYW in New York) Nalini Sharma - noon weather/entertainment specialist (now weekday morning weather specialist at CP24) Peter Silverman - CityNews "Good Samaritan" (forced to retire after Citytv's purchase by Rogers Communications; now host of The Peter Silverman Show on radio station CFRB/Toronto) Dick Smyth - general assignment reporter (retired in 1997; now does occasional radio commentary on CFMJ AM640) Elsewhere Tim Butcher - Citytv Calgary weekend sports reporter Derek Bidwell - Citytv Calgary 11 p.m. sports anchor Meera Bahadoosingh - Citytv Winnipeg general assignment reporter (now Prairie Correspondent for Global National) Bridget Brown - Citytv Winnipeg morning anchor (now reporter for CTV Two Barrie) Christine Chorley - Citytv Edmonton sports reporter Marke Driesschen - weather specialist (now weather specialist at CTV Vancouver) Scott Fee - Citytv Edmonton reporter (now 5 p.m. anchor for CHEK-TV in Victoria, British Columbia) Bill Fortier - Citytv Winnipeg general assignment reporter (now weekend 11:30 p.m. anchor for CTV Edmonton) Rob Gibson - Citytv Calgary 6 p.m. sports director Kristi Gordon - Citytv Edmonton 6 and 11 p.m. meteorologist (now weekend meteorologist, CTV Vancouver) Ted Henley - Citytv Calgary 6 and 11 p.m. anchor (now morning anchor for 660 News in Calgary) Rob Hislob - host of the Edmonton edition of Your City Ross Hull - Citytv Calgary weather specialist (later with CTV Two London; now with CTV Kitchener) Sandra Jansen - host of the Calgary edition of Your City Ashlea Kay - Citytv Winnipeg weekend anchor (now producer for CP24) Glen Kirby - Citytv Winnipeg 6 p.m. anchor Sudha Krishnan - legislative reporter (now OMNI News: South Asian anchor for OMNI Alberta) Bryan Labby - Citytv Calgary CityNews/Your City reporter (now reporter for CBC Calgary) Kris Laudien - Citytv Edmonton sports reporter (now at CurlTV) Jennifer Martin - Citytv Edmonton 6 p.m. anchor (now morning news anchor for CISN-FM) Moira McLean - legislative reporter Leigh Morrow - general assignment reporter (now employed as a realtor) Julie Nolin - 6 p.m. anchor Christine Osunde - Citytv Calgary CityNews/Your City reporter Leah Sarich - Citytv Calgary CityNews/Your City anchor Lisa Saunders - Citytv Winnipeg 6 and 11 p.m. anchor Dag Sharman - senior reporter (now sports anchor at CBC Vancouver) Aisling Slattery - Citytv Calgary Breakfast Television and noon anchor Derek Taylor - Citytv Winnipeg sports anchor Jamie Thomas - Citytv Edmonton 6 p.m. sports anchor (now sports anchor for Rogers Sportsnet) Elaine Yong - weekend anchor (now consumer reporter for CTV Vancouver) See also[link] 2007 Canada broadcast TV realignment CityNews References[link] ^ "Citytv On The Move Pt. 1". Citytv. 2009-08-31. http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/56287--citytv-on-the-move-pt-1. Retrieved 2009-09-09.  ^ "Bell Globemedia makes $1.7B bid for CHUM". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 2006-07-12. http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/07/12/chum-bell.html. Retrieved 2006-07-12.  ^ Byers, Jim (June 12, 2007). "Rogers buys Citytv stations". The Star (Toronto). http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/224297. Retrieved 2007-06-12.  ^ "Rogers Communications Inc, Official News Release: Rogers buys Citytv Stations". 2007. http://micro.newswire.ca/release.cgi?rkey=1506113399&view=16336-0&Start=0. Retrieved 2007-08-18.  ^ "Jim Pattison Broadcast Group solidifies Program Supply agreement for three independent stations serving BC and Alberta" (Press release). Jim Pattison Broadcast Group. 2009-07-14. http://www.jimpattison.com/corporate/news/2009/071409.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-19.  ^ Citytv and Pattison Group Sign Affiliate Agreement, Broadcaster Magazine, May 3, 2012. ^ A Legend Lost: Toronto Mourns The Death Of Mark Dailey ^ Citytv and SCN Sign Affiliate Agreement ^ a b Rogers to buy SCN, launch Citytv Saskatchewan ^ Citytv expanding into Quebec & Western Canada, CityNews, May 3, 2012. ^ Layoffs, Cancelled Shows At Citytv citynews.ca, published January 19, 2010 ^ Citytv Restructures Television Operations To Improve Business and Better Serve Audiences Rogers Media press release via CNW Group, published January 19, 2010. ^ Citytv In Response to Citytv layoffs Citytv.com ^ CRTC Notice 2007-12 ^ CRTC Notice 2007-12-8. ^ CRTC Grants Citytv Licence For All News Channel CityNews Toronto 2008-12-10 ^ Rogers unveils CityNews Channel, fall lineup & debut of ‘Canada’s Got Talent’ CityNews Toronto 2011-05-30 ^ [1] ^ CBC News. http://www.cbc)ca/programguide/personality/laura_dibattista.  External links[link] Wikimedia Commons has media related to: City TV Citytv CityNews v t e Citytv stations Owned and operated stations CKVU Vancouver • CKAL Calgary • CKEM Edmonton • CHMI Winnipeg • CITY Toronto Affiliates Over-the-air CFJC Kamloops • CHAT Medicine Hat • CJNT Montreal (effective June 4, 2012)2 • CKPG Prince George Cable/satellite Saskatchewan Communications Network (3 p.m.-6 a.m. only)1 International franchises Bogotá Defunct franchises Barcelona • Puerto Rico Notes 1 Rogers Communications is currently in the process of acquiring SCN from Bluepoint Investment Corporation; the sale is pending CRTC approval. 2 Rogers is currently in the process of acquiring CJNT from Channel Zero, pending CRTC approval; starting June 4, CJNT will become a primary Citytv/secondary Omni Television affiliate under Channel Zero ownership until the purchase by Rogers is finalized, when it will become an owned-and-operated station carrying programming from both systems. 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