CityNews Channel was a Canadian English language specialty digital cable television channel from 2011 to 2013. It was owned by the Rogers Media division of Rogers Communications , and primarily focused on the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The channel was only available in Ontario and broadcast a single feed in high definition which was also accessible through standard definition televisions.
77-541: The channel's branding was shared with its Rogers-owned conventional television network, City (formerly Citytv), and its news brand CityNews . The channel broadcast from 33 Dundas Street East in Downtown Toronto which also houses studios for City flagship CITY-DT , and Omni Television flagships CFMT-DT (channel 47) and CJMT-DT (channel 40). CityNews Channel broadcast an all-news format, consisting of local, national and international news. It operated
154-577: A 24-hour news wheel as seen on-screen, with traffic and weather reports every 10 minutes on the :1s, sports news at :15 and :45 past the hour, and business news (under the title CityBiz ) at :26 and :56 past the hour, a similar format used on Rogers-owned all-news radio station in Toronto, CFTR (680 AM; known by its brand "680 News"), and two of CITY-DT's local newscasts, CityNews at Five and Breakfast Television . The channel's anchors were rotated depending on time period. Live rolling news programming
231-852: A Sunday night game of the week hosted by Ron MacLean . Hometown Hockey moved from Citytv to Sportsnet for the 2015-16 season. Individual stations are normally branded on-air as simply "Citytv" (from 2012 to 2018, the stations were referred to as "City"); the location may be added, for example "Citytv Toronto", if disambiguation is necessary. The list also mentions which stations had been owned by either CHUM Ltd. or Rogers, depending on affiliation. Like most Canadian networks, Citytv stations are generally available as distant signals on most cable and satellite providers nationwide. The Citytv brand has been licensed to local television stations in Bogotá , Colombia and formerly in Barcelona , Spain. Toronto's CITY-DT
308-535: A coincidental development, that same day, BCE Inc. , owner of Bell Globemedia and the parent company of CTV , announced it would buy CHUM Limited. Bell Globemedia had intended to retain CHUM's Citytv system while divesting CHUM's A-Channel stations and Alberta cable channel Access to get the CRTC to approve the acquisition. In October 2006, Citytv launched a daily national newscast, CityNews International , which
385-399: 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 described the policy as wanting the station to "look like Toronto". Beginning in 1983, Citytv began to produce a New Year's Eve special live from Nathan Phillips Square in Downtown Toronto . Most recently known as
462-487: A joint venture between Rogers Communications and the now-defunct Shaw Media prior to the latter's merger with Corus Entertainment ; and has been compared to the latter company's StackTV service. Live linear feeds of most Citytv stations, as well as CityNews 24/7 , also became available to Amazon Prime subscribers at no additional cost through Prime Video. CityNews 24/7 is a headline news channel, similar to those offered online by Global News , and an indirect successor to
539-423: A large following since its debut in 1977. Other stations around the world have imitated its format to varying degrees of success. However, Citytv itself was unsuccessful in expanding its audience to other Canadian markets, as evidenced by the eventual cancellation of the other stations' traditional newscasts. Flagship station CITY-DT, along with Jim Pattison Group-owned affiliates CFJC-TV , CKPG-TV and CHAT-TV are
616-528: A long battle with cancer. The Citytv system began to phase in a modified branding in October 2012, with a new logo consisting only of the name "City", and some promotions using the verbal branding "City Television" (later also switched to simply "City") instead of "Citytv". The change marked the first major alteration to the "Citytv" brand since its introduction in 1972. The network adopted the name "City" on December 31, 2012, during its New Year's Eve special. For
693-841: 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-TV in Edmonton began testing its digital signal on May 26, 2010, and began regular HD broadcasts on June 29, 2010. CITY-DT-3 in Ottawa began testing its digital feed on June 12, 2010, and regular digital broadcasts on June 18, 2010. CKAL-TV began testing its high definition signal on August 31, 2010. By August 31, 2011 , all Citytv owned-and-operated stations had their primary transmitters and most retransmitters broadcasting exclusively in digital. Citytv HD
770-470: A new subsidiary called Cogeco Peer 1 . In January 2018, Cogeco Communications Inc. announced that its US subsidiary Atlantic Broadband had completed the acquisition of the cable systems owned by Harron Communications which were operating under the brand name MetroCast for US$ 1.4 billion, making the company the eight largest hybrid fibre coaxial cable operator in North America. In February 2019,
847-691: A range of telecommunication products and services including cable television, radio and television broadcasting, telephony, and Internet services in Ontario and Quebec in Canada, and in thirteen states along the east coast of the United States. Cogeco Inc. is a publicly traded company ( TSX : CGO ) and is controlled through multiple voting shares (accounting for 71.29% of votes) by the Audet family's holding company Gestion Audem Inc. In turn, Cogeco Inc. fully owns Cogeco Media, and owns 82.96% of
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#1732797520817924-675: A second offer, increasing it to CA$ 11.1 billion in cash, which was again rejected by the Audet family. The offer expired that November. Rogers subsequently sold its remaining stakes in the Cogeco companies to the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in December 2023. Following the acquisition of systems in Ohio in 2021, Atlantic Broadband rebranded as Breezeline in early 2022. On 21 October 2020, Cogeco Communications announced an agreement for
1001-512: A station that went on the air in September 28, 1972, in the former Electric Circus nightclub in which became known for an intensely local format based on newscasts aimed at younger viewers, nightly movies, and music and cultural programming. The Citytv brand first expanded with then-parent company CHUM Limited 's acquisition of former Global owned-and-operated station CKVU-TV in Vancouver, followed by its purchase of Craig Media 's stations and
1078-524: A time, the service also featured exclusive programs not airing on the broadcast network. On April 12, 2022, Rogers announced the launch of Citytv+ (pronounced Citytv Plus ), an add-on channel for Amazon's Prime Video . The service includes most of the programming available on Citytv and its siblings, including Omni Television , as well as recent and selected past programming aired by the Canadian FX and FXX networks. The service succeeds Shomi ,
1155-835: A total of twenty-two radio stations in Quebec and one in Ontario. Also that year, the company purchased Métromédia for CA$ 41 million to later sell it in 2018 to Bell Media for an undisclosed amount. In February 2012, the company also sold its cable system Cabovisão in Portugal to the European media group Altice . In July 2012, the company expanded into the U.S. market by acquiring the cable system operator Atlantic Broadband . In December that same year, it acquired Peer 1 Hosting, an internet infrastructure provider, and later in October 2015, merged it with its Cogeco Data Services, forming
1232-753: A week for CJNT (including a local edition of Breakfast Television ), and agreed to contribute funding and programming to a new independent multicultural station in Montreal. 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 camera report and videotape their own stories. Citytv calls its videojournalists "videographers", but unlike many stations in American television markets that try to conceal
1309-757: Is available nationally via satellite and on digital cable. It is also available for free over-the-air using a regular TV antenna and a digital tuner (included in most new television sets) via the following stations and retransmitters: Video on demand access to Citytv programming has been available in various forms, such as through TV provider's set-top boxes, or streaming media through the network's website and mobile apps. In June 2018, Rogers announced it would launch an expanded service called Citytv Now (stylized Citytv NOW ) for authenticated customers of partnered TV service providers, such as corporate sibling Rogers Cable. Citytv Now features fulls-season (and several past season) availability of shows airing on Citytv. For
1386-605: Is broadcast on a number of cable television providers in the Caribbean. In Barbados, Citytv is carried on channel 507 of the terrestrial subscription service known as Multi-Choice TV . Italicized channel numbers indicate a digital channel allocated for future use by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission . In 2003, CHUM Limited launched a high definition simulcast of its Toronto station CITY-TV . In October 2006, Citytv installed
1463-637: Is from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 7 a.m.-6 p.m. weekends, and 7-11 p.m. every night. The station also aired simulcasts of all CITY-DT-produced local programming. Encore broadcasts of CityNews at Six were seen on CityNews Channel at 7 p.m. while the 11 p.m. newscast, CityNews Tonight was repeated on CityNews Channel at midnight. During the overnight hours when CityNews Channel did not broadcast live programming or CITY news broadcasts, from 1 a.m. (originally midnight until September 2012) to 5:30 a.m. weekdays and midnight to 7 a.m. ET weekends, it aired an audio simulcast of 680 News and live traffic camera feeds from
1540-516: Is now the largest gap in City's local coverage area, and there are few remaining realistic options for Rogers to purchase or affiliate with existing stations in the region. This had led Rogers to attempt, unsuccessfully, to request simultaneous substitution privileges for Citytv Toronto on its cable systems in New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador . Prior to the CRTC's decision to refuse
1617-507: The 2018–19 television season , the network reintroduced its original "Citytv" branding, and its social media accounts. The Jim Pattison Group announced in July 2009 that its three television stations in western Canada ( CKPG-TV , CFJC-TV , and CHAT-TV ), formerly affiliated with E! , would join Citytv starting on September 1, 2009. These stations do not carry the Citytv branding; instead,
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#17327975208171694-455: The ATV system of CTV affiliates, and cable-only channel ASN . Many Citytv programs were aired on ASN during this period, effectively making ASN an unbranded Citytv O&O. Both ATV and ASN were acquired by Baton Broadcasting (now Bell Media) in 1997; ASN continued to air much of the Citytv schedule until it became part of the A (now CTV 2 ) television system in 2008. This means that Atlantic Canada
1771-614: The City New Year's Eve Bash , the yearly concert special expanded to include a second event in Calgary, Alberta for its 2012–13 edition. In 2013–14, Citytv began simulcasting ABC's Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve instead of airing its own full special, though it continued to sponsor (and air some coverage of) the New Year's event in Toronto. Citytv Toronto's CityNews , which used to be known as CityPulse , had developed
1848-596: The CityNews Channel (which operated from 2011 to 2013, following the separation of Citytv and CP24 in 2009). Cogeco Cable Cogeco Inc. is a Canadian telecommunications and media company. Its corporate offices are located at 1 Place Ville-Marie in Montreal , Quebec. The company is structured into three strategic business units (SBU); Cogeco Connexion, Breezeline (previously known as Atlantic Broadband), and Cogeco Media. The company provides
1925-484: The Great Movies block; as Citytv transitioned to a primetime lineup consisting of mainly domestic and American series during the 2000s, Great Movies was scaled back, then replaced in 2008 by reruns, reality shows and infomercials. The station attracted attention and controversy by airing The Baby Blue Movie , a softcore pornography film showcase on Friday nights after midnight. Although this programming block
2002-541: The Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN) from 3 p.m.-6 a.m. CT daily, beginning on January 2, 2012. This program block followed the national program grid of Citytv and was known on-air as "Citytv on SCN". Shortly after, on January 17, 2012, Rogers announced its intent to acquire SCN from Bluepoint. The deal gave the Citytv system stations in all provinces west of Quebec and south of the federal territories of Northern Canada . The sale
2079-479: The Audet family, indicated shortly thereafter that they would not support the offer. It was also rejected by the companies' boards of directors , and Quebec Premier François Legault had also signalled his opposition to losing another major Quebec-based company. Altice and Rogers said they would continue to pursue a purchase, with Rogers promising to maintain a separate management team and regional headquarters for its Quebec operations. In October 2020, Altice made
2156-546: The CityNews digital platforms, as well as Rogers' Amazon Prime Video Channels service Citytv+. Citytv Citytv (sometimes shortened to City , which was the network's official branding from 2012 to 2018) is a Canadian television network owned by the Rogers Sports & Media subsidiary of Rogers Communications . The network consists of six owned-and-operated (O&O) television stations located in
2233-591: The Citytv stations have been sparse over the years. Between 2005 and 2014, the predominant sports property on Citytv was coverage of the National Football League . Craig Media (then-owners of the current Citytv stations in Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary) 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. Following
2310-424: The Citytv stations to Rogers Media . CTV retained ownership of CHUM's cable channels, including CP24, which was paired with CTV 's CFTO-DT (channel 9) instead of Citytv. Rogers was granted approval for a specialty channel licence for CityNews Channel by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on December 10, 2008. The channel was then tentatively known as CITY News (Toronto) , and
2387-548: The Pattison stations began to carry 90% of Citytv's primetime programming and the majority of its morning and daytime programming from the programming grid of CKVU-DT, including simulcasts of the Vancouver edition of Breakfast Television . Unlike CKVU, the Pattison stations continue to produce midday and evening local newscasts. Meanwhile, on December 20, 2011, Bluepoint Investment Corporation announced an affiliation agreement with Rogers Communications to air Citytv programming on
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2464-587: The Sportsnet channels: the 2012 Rogers Cup , and the 2012 Davis Cup World Group Play-off between Canada and South Africa . On November 26, 2013, Rogers announced a 12-year, $ 5.2 billion deal to become the exclusive national rightsholder to the National Hockey League in the 2014–15 season . Beginning in October 2014, Citytv began to broadcast NHL games produced by Sportsnet as part of Hockey Night in Canada , and Rogers Hometown Hockey ,
2541-454: The Toronto area. Conversely, CityNews Channel had aired simulcasts of its weekend morning news programming on CITY-DT from April 14, 2012 until the channel's closure, on Saturday mornings from 7-8 a.m. and Sunday mornings from 7-9 a.m. The channel incorporated a large news ticker consisting of news headlines, weather information, sports scores and advertisements. In addition to sharing branding and content with CITY-DT and content from 680 News,
2618-667: The Winnipeg and Edmonton editions of Breakfast Television ; in Winnipeg, it was replaced by a simulcast of the morning show from co-owned radio station CITI-FM , and the Edmonton edition was replaced by the spin-off Dinner Television , an evening newsmagazine and discussion program which did not feature original news reporting. On June 5, 2017, Rogers announced that it would relaunch local CityNews evening newscasts across its stations, which would air at 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. nightly. The Edmonton and Winnipeg newscasts premiered on September 4, 2017, followed by Calgary, Montreal, and Vancouver on September 3, 2018. Sports broadcasts on
2695-705: The acquisition of DERYTelecom by its subsidiary Cogeco Connexion for $ 405 million. Founded in Saguenay, DERYTelecom is the third largest cable company in Quebec. The closing of the transaction is announced on 14 December 2020. In February 2023, the company announced that it had acquired the telecommunications operation of Internet service provider oxio Within its Canadian cable operations in Ontario and Quebec, 98% of all homes passed by Cogeco Cable-owned plant are able to access digital cable services. In August 2018, Cogeco announced that it would convert its cablesystems to IPTV using MediaKind platforms. Cogeco Cable
2772-436: The acquisition of an additional 19 cable systems. In a turn of events, in 2009, and again in 2010, Rogers invested substantially in both Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Cable Inc., resulting in some speculation surrounding the two rivals. In 2011, the company increased its radio station assets by acquiring Corus Québec , a subsidiary of Corus Entertainment , and in 2018 acquired additional radio stations from RNC Média , giving it
2849-485: The afternoon American Thanksgiving games until the 2017 season , when these rights were acquired by TSN. Under Rogers ownership, Citytv has aired occasional sports broadcasts as an overflow channel for co-owned Sportsnet, such as a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification group-stage match between Canada and Panama on September 11, 2012, in simulcast with Sportsnet One . It has also broadcast supplementary coverage of two tennis events that were primarily broadcast by
2926-691: The air in October 2001 using the same format as CITY-TV. CKVU became known as "Citytv Vancouver" on July 22, 2002. Prior to CHUM's acquisition of CKVU, some Citytv programming were split between KVOS-TV in Bellingham, Washington , which is close to Vancouver, and CTV-owned CIVT-TV , during the 1990s and early 2000s when Citytv did not have a station in Vancouver; CHAN-TV , then a CTV affiliate, also aired some Citytv programs, such as CityLine . The WIC stations in Alberta (including CITV-TV and CICT-TV ) bought provincial rights to some Citytv programs prior to
3003-434: The cable-only Saskatchewan Communications Network and Montreal's CJNT-DT . At one point, Citytv also existed in Barcelona and San Juan, Puerto Rico . While patterned after the original station in Toronto, since the 2000s, and particularly since its acquisition by Rogers, Citytv has moved towards a series-based prime time schedule much like its competitors, albeit one still focused on younger demographics. The licence of
3080-544: The channel aired content and features from several other Rogers-owned outlets including specialty channel Sportsnet , and Maclean's , MoneySense , Today's Parent and Hello! Canada magazines. Under the ownership of CHUM Limited , Citytv had operated CablePulse 24 ( CP24 ), another Toronto-based local news channel, from 1998 to 2007. However, CHUM Limited was purchased in 2007 by Bell Globemedia (later renamed CTVglobemedia , and again renamed Bell Media in 2011 following its purchase by Bell Canada ), which then sold
3157-442: The channel maintained the news ticker, with the live video portion of the channel broadcasting live traffic camera feeds, weather maps, and promotions. At Rogers' request, the CRTC revoked CityNews Channel's broadcasting licence on October 1, 2013. In 2022, Rogers launched successors to CityNews Channel, this time as streaming news channels branded as CityNews 24/7; the channel is operated in Toronto and West versions, and carried via
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3234-539: The company announced it sold Cogeco Peer 1 to private equity firm Digital Colony for CA$ 720 million. Cogeco Peer 1 later changed its name to Aptum Technologies . On 2 September 2020, Altice USA announced an unsolicited offer to purchase both Cogeco and Cogeco Communications. Altice announced it would immediately resell Cogeco's Canadian assets to Rogers, which retains large minority interests in both Cogeco companies, while Altice would keep Cogeco's U.S. assets including Atlantic Broadband. Cogeco's controlling shareholders,
3311-512: The company chose to retain CP24, and the channel was re-aligned with CFTO (CTV). As a replacement, Rogers received approval for, and launched, CityNews Channel in October 2011. The network was modelled on Rogers-owned radio station CFTR 680 , and featured news, weather, traffic reports, and other content drawing from the resources of Rogers properties such as Maclean's and Sportsnet . On May 30, 2013, as part of budget cuts, Rogers announced that
3388-625: The divestment, CTV would have exceeded the CRTC's concentration of media ownership limits. CTV announced on June 11, 2007, that it would retain the A-Channel stations, and sell the Citytv stations to Rogers Communications for $ 375 million. The transaction was approved by the CRTC on September 28 and was completed on October 31, 2007. On September 8, 2009, CITY Toronto moved to its current location at Yonge-Dundas Square at 33 Dundas Street East . On December 6, 2010, CityNews Tonight Toronto anchor and continuity announcer Mark Dailey died after
3465-642: 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 story to show viewers how the story was recorded. At one time, Citytv's Toronto flagship CITY-TV produced more local programs than any other television station in Canada, and more local programming than any other station in North America other than Boston 's WCVB-TV . Citytv produced shows such as Speakers' Corner , CityLine and
3542-705: The format when it acquired four Ontario stations from Baton Broadcasting in 1997, namely CHRO in Pembroke , CFPL-TV in London , CKNX-TV in Wingham , and CHWI-TV in Windsor . Most of these stations were also former CBC affiliates, and in markets where CKVR's sister station, CITY-TV, was already or subsequently became available on basic cable. Until 1997, CHUM owned two television outlets in Atlantic Canada :
3619-610: The intention of making it a newest Citytv station. CHUM planned on spending $ 8.03 million on British Columbia-based independent productions, $ 5.95 million on local news and information programming, and $ 1.37 million on local culture, social policy, and talent development over a period of seven years. A similar application was filed in 1996 by the CRTC but was dropped in favor of Baton launching CIVT-TV in 1997. CHUM gained CRTC approval for its acquisition of CKVU on October 15, 2001. Meanwhile, CIVI-TV in Victoria, British Columbia went on
3696-590: The launch of CKAL and CKEM in 1997. On April 12, 2004, CHUM Limited announced a deal to purchase Craig Media for $ 265 million. The move came more than a month after the CRTC denied CHUM's applications for new Calgary and Edmonton stations, which they applied back in 2003, because the market did not have sufficient advertising revenue to support a new entrant. The sale was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on November 19, 2004. CHUM had to sell off Toronto 1 because it already owned stations in Toronto and nearby Barrie ; Toronto 1
3773-481: The metropolitan areas of Toronto , Montreal , Winnipeg , Calgary , Edmonton , and Vancouver , a cable-only service that serves the province of Saskatchewan , and three independently owned affiliates serving smaller cities in Alberta and British Columbia . There is also one station using the brand name serving Bogotá , Colombia . The Citytv brand name originates from its flagship station, CITY-TV in Toronto,
3850-593: The morning and daytime hours. Due to the structural problems facing the conventional television industry in Canada and the Great Recession , 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: CITY-DT used to operate CP24 , a cable news channel covering the Greater Toronto Area . During CTVglobemedia's purchase of CHUM Limited,
3927-451: The network would be shut down. Citytv continued to produce Breakfast Television for all markets, and 6:00 p.m. and late-night 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). 60 employees (including long-time Toronto news anchor Anne Mroczkowski ) were laid off across Canada. In 2015, Rogers cancelled
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#17327975208174004-532: The new channel on digital cable channel 1 in the GTA. However, on November 22, 2011, the channel was moved to Rogers digital cable channel 15, the former cable slot for CKXT (which had shut down on November 1, 2011 and had its licence revoked by the CRTC on November 18, 2011). Digital channel 1 has reverted to serving as a Rogers promotional channel. The channel was later added on Cogeco Cable in July 2012. Like all specialty channels launched since 2001, CityNews Channel
4081-662: The only Citytv stations producing midday or evening newscasts. The Pattison stations use their individual callsigns, instead of branding under the Citytv name and do not use the CityNews title for their weekday newscasts. Four of City's five other owned-and-operated broadcast stations (CKVU-DT, CKAL-DT , CKEM-DT and CHMI-DT ) only produce localized versions of the morning program franchise Breakfast Television . Citytv Saskatchewan, meanwhile, does not carry any local programming, and would be unable to broadcast Breakfast Television due to its mandate of airing educational programming in
4158-423: The original Citytv station, granted the callsign of CITY-TV by the CRTC, was awarded in Toronto on November 25, 1971 by Channel Seventy-Nine Ltd., which consisted of – among others – Phyllis Switzer, Moses Znaimer , Jerry Grafstein and Edgar Cowan. The four principal owners raised over $ 2 million to help start up the station, with Grafstein raising about 50% of the required funds, Znaimer raising around 25%, and
4235-545: The ratings of the stations with the new moniker. The change took effect on August 2 of the same year, when the A-Channel name was transferred to CHUM's NewNet stations. On July 12, 2006, CHUM announced that it would dramatically reduce its newsgathering operations in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, and Winnipeg, as well as in several other cities. It laid off 281 part- and full-time employees, effectively cancelleing its supper-hour, late-night and weekend newscasts, laying off hundreds of news department staff among 281 job cuts. In
4312-547: The re-branding of its A-Channel system in Central Canada as Citytv in August 2005. CHUM Limited was acquired by CTVglobemedia (now Bell Media ) in 2007; to comply with Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) ownership limits, the Citytv stations were sold to Rogers. The network grew through further affiliations with three Jim Pattison Group -owned stations, along with Rogers' acquisition of
4389-454: The remainder being accrued by Switzer and Cowan. CITY-TV began broadcasting on September 28, 1972 for the first time using the "Citytv" brand and initially operated as an independent station , and its transmitter operated at an effective radiated power of 31 kW . The station operated from studio facilities located at 99 Queen Street East, near Church Street, at the former Electric Circus nightclub. The station lost money early on, and
4466-494: The request, Rogers had hinted that a similar agreement had been tentatively reached with EastLink , the main cable provider in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island . In 2000, after Canwest Global Communications acquired the assets of Western International Communications which led to a network shuffle in Vancouver , CHUM applied to the CRTC to acquire CKVU-TV (Global Vancouver) on July 26, 2001 for $ 175 million, with
4543-448: The result of Industry Canada 's decision to reassign frequencies corresponding to high-band UHF channels 70 to 83 to the new AMPS mobile phone systems as a result of a CCIR international convention in 1982. In 1981, CITY was purchased outright by CHUM with the sale of Moses Znaimer's interest in the station. Znaimer remained with the station as an executive until 2003, when he retired from his management role but continued to work with
4620-490: The sale to Rogers, CKVU carried Sunday afternoon "late window" (4:00/4:15 p.m. ET, 1:00/1:15 p.m. PT) games during the 2007 season (as did Omni Television station CJMT in Toronto). From the 2008 season through 2013 , all Citytv stations carried Sunday late-window games. After rights to late games were acquired by CTV (who also airs early games), Sportsnet and Citytv maintained rights to Thursday Night Football and
4697-541: The same month, Citytv Toronto became the first television station in Canada to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition . The following year on June 8, the CRTC approved the CTV takeover of CHUM. However, the CRTC made the deal conditional on CTV divesting itself of Citytv, because there were already CTV owned-and-operated stations serving the same cities ( CFTO-TV Toronto, CIVT-TV Vancouver, CFCN-TV Calgary, CFRN-TV Edmonton, and CKY-TV Winnipeg). Without
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#17327975208174774-488: The station on some production projects. CITY and the other CHUM-owned television properties moved their operations to the company's headquarters at 299 Queen Street West in May 1987, which became one of the most recognizable landmarks in the city. On March 30, 1998, CHUM launched CablePulse 24 ( CP24 ), a local cable news channel whose programming used anchors from and featured reports filed by CITY-TV's news staff, rebroadcasts of
4851-664: The station's CityPulse newscasts and select programming from CITY and other CHUM stations. CHUM added CITY-TV's three rebroadcast transmitters in Woodstock (CITY-TV-2 on channel 31, which also served nearby London ) on September 1, 1986, while another transmitter was set up in Ottawa in 1996 (CITY-TV-3 on channel 65). CITY-TV's groundbreaking format became successful when CHUM dropped CKVR's longtime affiliation with CBC Television on September 1, 1995 and relaunched it as an independent station . Eventually, CHUM began to replicate
4928-412: The stations continue to use the same branding and logos they used as affiliates of the E! system. The Pattison-owned Citytv affiliates produce local newscasts, but do not produce their own versions of Breakfast Television nor title their midday and evening newscasts under the CityNews brand like the Citytv owned-and-operated stations do. Through a long-term affiliation renewal agreement on May 3, 2012,
5005-449: The system's first television station located east of the Greater Toronto Area . On December 20, 2012, the CRTC approved the acquisition of CJNT and Rogers' request to convert the station from multicultural to a conventional English-language station. The station began carrying the full Citytv schedule on February 4, 2013, turning Citytv from a television system into a full-fledged network. Rogers will produce 15.5 hours of local programming
5082-670: The voting rights in Cogeco Communications Inc. , a separate publicly traded company ( TSX : CCA ) which owns the Canadian and U.S. cable and telecom operations. The name Cogeco is an acronym for Compagnie Générale de Communication ("General Communications Company"). In June 1957, Henri Audet (1918-2012) left the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), became president and managing director of Télévision St. Maurice Inc., and
5159-496: Was approved in late June 2012 by the CRTC and Rogers relaunched SCN as Citytv Saskatchewan on July 1. Rogers plans to invest in the station's infrastructure, and also launch a high definition feed. In Montreal, Rogers announced its intent to acquire multicultural station CJNT-DT from Toronto-based Channel Zero on May 3, 2012, and announced an affiliation agreement with the station, effective June 4, 2012. This gave Citytv stations in all provinces west of Atlantic Canada as well as
5236-657: Was awarded a broadcasting license by the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC) to operate a television station in Trois-Rivières , Quebec. The call sign would be CKTM-TV , and it would become an affiliate of the CBC's French-language network . Télévision St. Maurice Inc . was later renamed Cogéco Radio-Télévision Inc . , a subsidiary of Cogeco Inc. He would also become chairman and president of La Belle Vision Inc . , which
5313-533: Was discontinued in the 1980s, it was reinstated on CITY and CKVU throughout most of the 2000s, until its ownership change to Rogers Communications. 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. Citytv was one of the first television stations in Canada to implement
5390-708: Was in 1972, Cogeco's first acquisition. Henri Audet was chairman and CEO of Cogeco Inc. between 1976 and 1993, and later in 1996, was named President Emeritus of Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Cable Inc. Over time, the company divested itself of all its on-air broadcast television assets. In 1989, the company obtained its initial presence in Ontario by acquiring cable systems in Burlington and Oakville and in 1996 expanded further in Ontario by acquiring an additional 25 cable systems (303,000 customers for CA$ 350 million) from Rogers Communications . Between 1998 and 2001, Cogeco increased its footprint in both Quebec and Ontario with
5467-519: Was in debt by 1975. Multiple Access Ltd. (the owners of CFCF-TV in Montreal ) purchased a 45% interest in the station, and sold its stake to CHUM Limited , the parent company of CKVR-TV in Barrie , Ontario in 1978. On May 1, 1976, the station's main transmitter began broadcasting at 208 kW from the CN Tower . The station switched channel allocations on July 1, 1983, moving to UHF channel 57,
5544-524: Was not eligible to be carried on analogue cable, and thus PBS member station WNED-TV / Buffalo was moved to the channel 15 position for Toronto-area Rogers subscribers without a set-top box (WNED remained on channel 61 for digital cable subscribers). Due to financial difficulties, Rogers Media ceased live broadcasts of the CityNews Channel on May 30, 2013, in order to redirect its news resources in Toronto to Citytv and CFTR. Until June 30, 2013,
5621-839: Was one of the first major cable operators to deploy its network compliant with the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) standard to provide all of its Internet Protocol (IP) based services, such as internet access and VoIP as early as 2002. In April 2009, Cogeco implemented a penalty for surpassing the bandwidth limits for each tier. As of August 2021, Cogeco offers up to gigabit download speeds (30 Mbit/s upload) in certain areas which takes advantage of its DOCSIS 3.1 platform upgrades and 180 Mbit/s download (10 Mbit/s upload) most of its footprint on DOCSIS 3.0. Cogeco Cable launched its digital phone service in June 2005,
5698-419: Was produced in Toronto for broadcast on the western Canadian stations and 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 Breakfast Television . In
5775-454: Was set to be launched in late 2009. However, this was delayed due to economic conditions as well as the reconstruction of Citytv's new headquarters at 33 Dundas Street East. On May 30, 2011, the same day that Citytv's 2011-2012 television broadcast schedule was unveiled, Rogers announced plans to launch the new channel in the fall of the same year. The channel was launched on October 3, 2011, as CityNews Channel . Rogers Cable initially carried
5852-512: Was sold to Quebecor Media , owners of the media units TVA and Sun Media . In February 2005, CHUM announced it would align Craig's A-Channel stations with its existing major-market stations under the Citytv brand. No other significant changes were made, since the A-Channel stations's on-air look had always been very similar to that of Citytv; they initially retained their local programs, relaunched under Citytv's Breakfast Television morning brand and CityNews news brand. CHUM hoped to lift
5929-502: Was the original home of FashionTelevision , SexTV and MediaTelevision . Many of these series were not exclusively focused on Toronto – FT , for instance, consisted largely of foreign runway footage – and are easily syndicated to other outlets. The latter three shows are now owned by CTVglobemedia as a result of its takeover of CHUM and subsequent divestiture of the Citytv stations. CITY prominently broadcast feature films during primetime, in late night and on weekends as part of
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