City (TV network)

This article is about the Canadian City brand. Individual stations (such as Toronto's CITY-DT) are listed according to their call signs. For other uses, see City TV (disambiguation).

City

Type	Broadcast television network
Branding	City City Television
Country	Canada
Availability	National 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	Historical: Channel Seventy-Nine Ltd. (1972-1981) Multiple Access Ltd. (1975-1978) CHUM Limited (1981-2007) (CHUM Television Inc.) Current: Rogers Media (2007-present) (Rogers Broadcasting Ltd.)
Key people	Scott Moore - President of Broadcasting, Rogers Media Sam Dynes - Director of In-House Productions, Rogers Media
Launch date	September 28, 1972 (independent Toronto station) July 22, 2002 (first national expansion) February 4, 2013 (current national footprint)
Former names	Citytv (1972-2012)
Sister channels	Conventional: OMNI Television Specialty: CityNews Channel Sportsnet G4 OLN FX Canada The Biography Channel
Official website	citytv.com

City (also City Television; formerly known as Citytv) is a Canadian English language private television network owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division. It is Canada's third most-watched television network after CTV and Global consisting of seven owned and operated television stations located in the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, and the province of Saskatchewan, as well as three independently owned affiliates serving smaller cities in Alberta and British Columbia. The Citytv brand has also been licensed to television stations outside of Canada.

City 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 2000s, and particularly since its acquisition by Rogers, City has expanded its national reach and has moved towards a series-based primetime schedule much like its competitors, albeit one still focused on younger demographics.

History

See also: 2007 Canada broadcast TV realignment

The original City station, granted callsign CITY-TV by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), was awarded in Toronto on November 25, 1971 as Citytv and began broadcasting for the first time on September 28, 1972 under the ownership of Channel Seventy-Nine Ltd. with its studios was located at 99 Queen Street East near Church Street. The station was in debt by 1975. Multiple Access Ltd. (the owners of CFCF in Montreal) purchased 45% of the station, and sold its stake to CHUM Limited three years later. 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 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.

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.

Citytv Building at The Forks, in Winnipeg, Manitoba

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.

Citytv news vehicle in Edmonton

CHUM Limited announced plans to sell its broadcasting assets to CTV parent CTVglobemedia on July 12, 2006. CTVgm intended to retain CHUM's Citytv system while divesting CHUM's A-Channel stations and Access Alberta to get the CRTC to approve the acquisition. On the same day that the takeover was announced, Citytv cancelled 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 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 BT. In the same month, Citytv Toronto began broadcasting local news in high-definition, becoming the first television station in Canada to do so.

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 Toronto, CIVT Vancouver, CFCN Calgary, CFRN Edmonton, and CKY Winnipeg). Without 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.

Citytv logo used until December 2012.

On December 6, 2010, CityNews Tonight Toronto anchor/Citytv continuity voice-over, Mark Dailey died after 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" instead of Citytv. The change marks the first major alteration to the Citytv brand since its introduction in 1972. The new City branding was launched on December 31, 2012 during its New Year's Eve special.

Expanding into a national footprint

The Jim Pattison Group announced in July 2009 that its three television stations in western Canada (CKPG, CFJC, and CHAT), formerly affiliated with E!, would broadcast the entire Citytv program lineup starting on September 1, 2009. These stations do not carry the City branding; instead, they continue to use the same names 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 City owned and operated stations do. The agreement was to run through August 2012, however Rogers signed a long-term affiliation renewal agreement on May 3, 2012. This allows 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. Unlike CKVU, the Pattison stations will 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 the Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN) from 3 p.m.-6 a.m. CT daily, as of January 2, 2012. This block of programming 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 Investment Corporation. The deal gave the Citytv system stations in all provinces west of Quebec and south of the federal territories of Northern Canada. The sale 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 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 City schedule on February 4, 2013. Rogers will produce 15.5 hours of local programming a week for CJNT (including a local edition of Breakfast Television), and will contribute funding and programming to a new independent multicultural station in Montreal.

Programming

Main article: List of programs broadcast by City

Old version of the Citytv logo.

City 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 one time, City Toronto produced more local programs than any other television station in Canada, and more local programming than any other station in North America other than WCVB Boston. Citytv produced shows 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 outlets. The latter three shows are owned by CTVglobemedia as a result of its takeover of CHUM and subsequent divesting of the City 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.

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

News

Main article: CityNews

City Toronto's CityNews, formerly known as CityPulse, had developed a large following. Other stations around the world have imitateed 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-TV, along with Jim Pattison Group-owned affiliates CFJC-TV, CKPG-TV and CHAT-TV are the only City stations producing midday or evening newscasts (though the Pattison stations brand by their individual callsigns, instead of branding under the City name and do not the CityNews title for their weekday newscasts), City'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

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 City 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 (the latter two were restored in 2011)
• City's national and international newscast, CityNews International

City 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) were laid off across Canada.

Sports

National broadcasts

Sports broadcasts on the City stations have been sparse over the years, with the predominant sports property in recent years being National Football League football.

Craig Media (then-owners of the current 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. Following 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.2 in Toronto), under sublicence from Sportsnet. Since the 2008 season, all Citytv stations have carried Sunday late-window games. The local Sportsnet channel carries a different game than the game broadcast locally by Citytv.

On September 11, 2012, Citytv carried its first-ever national soccer broadcast, a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification group-stage match between Canada and Panama, simulcast with Sportsnet One. It has also broadcast supplementary coverage of two tennis events primarily broadcast by the Sportsnet channels: the 2012 Rogers Cup and the 2012 Davis Cup World Group Play-off between Canada and South Africa.

Local/regional broadcasts

• In addition to NFL regular-season games, CITY also airs selected Buffalo Bills preseason games (including those held at the Rogers Centre).
• The City stations in Alberta (while still branded "A-Channel") carried some regional NHL games during their first few years of operation. More recently they occasionally carried regional broadcasts in the event of conflicts with other Sportsnet programming (Sportsnet West being the regional rightsholder to both the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames), most recently in December 2009. Similarly, Citytv Vancouver carried two regional Vancouver Canucks broadcasts during the 2009-10 season, again due to programming conflicts on Sportsnet Pacific. However, this practice has since been deprecated in favour of using the Sportsnet One regional feeds.
• City Toronto broadcast some regular-season basketball games during the inaugural season of the Toronto Raptors.
• On March 2, 2008, City Toronto aired its first known baseball game, a Toronto Blue Jays spring training game, against the Cincinnati Reds. The Blue Jays, like City, is owned by Rogers.
• City Vancouver has occasionally carried broadcasts of Major League Soccer's Vancouver Whitecaps FC as part of Sportsnet's regional broadcast deal with the team.

CityNews Channel

Main article: CityNews Channel

CityNews Channel logo.

Shortly after Rogers' takeover of the City 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. 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.

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 scheduled to begin broadcasting in late 2009, but was delayed for financial reasons.

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

City stations

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 "City"; the location may be added if disambiguation is necessary. Prior to rebranding, it was referred to as "Citytv". The list also shows what stations had owned by either CHUM Ltd. or Rogers depending on affiliation.

Owned-and-operated stations

City of license/market	Station	Channel TV (RF)	Year of affiliation	Owned since	Notes
Calgary, Alberta	CKAL-DT	5.1 (49)	2005	2004	Former A-Channel station
Edmonton, Alberta	CKEM-DT	51.1 (17)	2005	2004	Former A-Channel flagship station
Montreal, Quebec	CJNT-DT	62.1 (49)	2012	2013	Former multicultural station as well as former CH/E! station
Regina/Saskatoon, Saskatchewan	City Saskatchewan	Cable-only	2012	2012	Licensed as an educational television service for the province of Saskatchewan, educational programming airs daily from 6 a.m.-3 p.m. CT.
Toronto, Ontario	CITY-DT	57.1 (44)	1972	1981	Original Citytv station, flagship
Vancouver, British Columbia	CKVU-DT	10.1 (33)	2002	2001	Former Global station
Portage la Prairie/Winnipeg, Manitoba	CHMI-DT	13.1 (13)	2005	2004	Former A-Channel station

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. During that time, despite its early de facto affiliation with ASN, Atlantic Canada 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 City Toronto on its cablesystems in New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador. Prior to the CRTC's decision to refuse 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.

Other such gaps include parts of the B.C. interior and Northern Ontario. However, like most Canadian networks, Citytv stations are generally available as distant signals on most cable and satellite providers nationwide.

In the past, local rights to individual City 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 City did not have a station in Vancouver. The WIC stations in Alberta (including CITV and CICT) bought provincial rights to some City programs prior to the launch of CKAL and CKEM in 1997.

Affiliates and international franchises

The City brand has been licensed to local television stations in Bogotá, Colombia and Barcelona, Spain. Toronto's CITY-DT is broadcast on a number of cable TV systems in the Caribbean. In Barbados, City is on channel 507 of the terrestrial subscription service known as Multi-Choice TV.

City of license/market	Station	Analog channel	Digital RF channel1	Year of affiliation	Owner
Kamloops, British Columbia	CFJC-TV	4	43	2009	Jim Pattison Group
Medicine Hat, Alberta	CHAT-TV	6	40	2009
Prince George, British Columbia	CKPG-TV	2	34	2009
Bogota, Colombia	Citytv Bogotá	21	N/A	1999	Casa Editorial El Tiempo

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

Former franchises

City of license	Station	Year of affiliation	Year of disaffiliation	Notes
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain	Citytv Barcelona	2001	2006	Licence agreement expired in 2006, station was renamed TD8 (now 8TV).
Fajardo, Puerto Rico	WRUA-TV	2006	2007	Rogers Media discontinued the licensing for WRUA after it took over Citytv, and the station now serves as a translator for WECN in Naranjito. Was the first Citytv franchise in America.
Halifax/Atlantic Canada	ASN	1997	2008	Carried some Citytv programming. Now known as CTV Two Atlantic and owned by Bell Media.

City HD

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. By August 31, 2011, all Citytv owned and operated stations had their primary transmitters and most retransmitters broadcasting exclusively in digital.

City HD 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 TVs) via the following stations and retransmitters:

• Vancouver: 33 (10.1)
• Victoria: 27 (27.1)
• Calgary: 49 (5.1)
• Lethbridge: 46 (2.1)
• Edmonton: 17 (17.1)
• Winnipeg: 13 (13.1)
• Toronto: 44 (57.1)
• Woodstock: 31 (31.1)
• Ottawa: 17 (65.1)
• Montreal: 49 (62.1)

Current presenters

List includes presenters from all City 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

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-DT 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)
• 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, later with CNN's American Morning program weekdays, and now with Fox News Channel based in Atlanta)
• 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 Calgary)
• 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

• 2007 Canada broadcast TV realignment
• CityNews

External links

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