* September 22 – The NewMusic, a Canadian weekly music and culture program, makes its début on Citytv.

Citytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division.

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.

On September 8, 2009, Citytv moved to its current location at Yonge-Dundas Square at 33 Dundas Street East.

On July 12, 2006, Citytv parent CHUM Limited announced plans to sell its broadcasting assets to CTV parent CTVglobemedia.

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.

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.

Rogers plans to rename the channel as Citytv Saskatchewan, invest into improving its infrastructure, and also launch a high definition feed for SCN.

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!

Citytv is well known for its unconventional approach to news and local programming.

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.

The latter three shows are owned by CTVglobemedia as a result of its takeover of CHUM and subsequent divesting of the Citytv stations.

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.

However, Citytv itself was unsuccessful in expanding its audience to other markets, as evidenced by the recent cancellation of the other stations ' traditional newscasts.

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.

* On March 2, 2008, Citytv Toronto aired its first known baseball game, a Toronto Blue Jays spring training game, against the Cincinnati Reds.

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.

On October 22, 2007, Rogers Media announced that it would buy this building as a new home for its Citytv and Omni Television stations.

Immediately prior to its acquisition, it held full or joint control of two Canadian television systems — Citytv and A-Channel ( formerly NewNet, now CTV Two ) — comprising 11 local stations, and one CBC Television ( Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ) affiliate, one provincial educational channel, and 20 branded specialty television channels, most notably MuchMusic and its various spinoffs.

While Craig's three largest stations were integrated into Citytv, Craig's Toronto station CKXT-TV ( then branded " Toronto 1 ", now " Sun TV ") was sold to Quebecor.

Despite efforts to extend the brand to other major markets, for 30 years CITY was the only Canadian station to identify on-air as " Citytv ", making " Citytv " and " CITY " interchangeable names for the station.

On August 26, 2005, Moxy performed " Can't You See I'm A Star " and " Cause There's Another ", the band's two biggest Canadian hits, live on Citytv in Toronto.

Citytv Bogotá ( which licensed the brand from CHUM ) also launched its own Speaker's Corner booth called Citycapsula when it signed on in 1996 ; unlike the Canadian versions, Citycapsula is free.

The network is known to many English Canadian viewers for Bleu Nuit, a showcase of softcore pornography which formerly broadcast late Saturday nights, similar to the old Baby Blue Movies that once aired on Toronto's Citytv.

On January 19, 2010, Citytv laid off many additional news personalites as part of restructuring operations.

CTVglobemedia retained ownership of CP24, the 24-hour Toronto local news station that shared many programs and personalities with Toronto's Citytv station, including CityNews.

The program was produced in the Citytv Toronto studios and featured many of the same on-air personalities as the local Citytv Toronto's CityNews.

Like with U. S. television, many stations use varied titles for their newscasts ; this is particularly true with owned-and-operated stations of Global and Citytv ( Global's stations use titles based on daypart such as News Hour for the noon and early evening newscasts and News Final for 11 p. m. newscasts, while all six Citytv-owned broadcast stations produce morning news / talk programs under the umbrella title Breakfast Television and its flagship station CITY-DT / Toronto's evening newscasts are titled CityNews ).

On January 19, 2010 Rogers & Citytv laid off many staff and cancelled some of the newscasts including the weekend newscasts.

* IKEA has been criticised by Citytv in Canada for charging as much as twice the price in their Canadian stores for the same items sold in their American stores, this despite the Canadian dollar reaching parity with the U. S. dollar.

Since 2010, with Rogers increasing its acquisitions of primetime programming from American networks ( primarily for carriage on Citytv ), Omni stations have sometimes carried such primetime programs in cases where there is a conflict on the local Citytv station, resulting in the ethnic programming that would otherwise air at that time being shifted to earlier or later in the evening.

Naked News also aired briefly as a late night television series on Citytv Toronto.

The region is considered to be a part of the Vancouver television market, receiving most stations that broadcast from across the Strait of Georgia, including the CBC, CTV, Citytv, and Global networks.

The Citytv brand has also been licensed to television stations outside of Canada.

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

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:

While working on his first novel, The Palace of Fears, he worked as a television producer at the BBC, and then the CBC and Citytv in Toronto.

Moses Znaimer O. Ont ( born 1942 ) is a co-founder and former head of Citytv, the first independent television station in Toronto, Canada, and the current head of ZoomerMedia.

Media analysts have suggested that with a more powerful media conglomerate such as Rogers behind them, that the Citytv stations will effectively become Canada's fourth full-fledged commercial television network, in effect if not immediately in name.

Since then, the Citytv signage at the front building was replaced with an eTalk logo ; the Citytv logos on the landmark mural behind the Virgin Mobile at Much store were replaced and overhauled with various logos of Bell Media's co-owned television channels, as well as the logo for CTV's entertainment news program eTalk shown one dish ; and the main Citytv signage on the building's east façade was replaced with a CTV logo and a private balcony, looking out from the company's boardroom.

Rogers Media owns Canada's largest publishing company, Rogers Publishing Limited, which has more than 70 consumer and business publications, 51 radio stations, television broadcasting with Omni Television, Citytv, Sportsnet, Sportsnet One, Sportsnet World, OLN, G4 Canada, RDeals and The Shopping Channel which is Canada's home shopping service.

Rogers Broadcasting operates 51 Canadian radio stations ( Rogers Radio ), ( 36 FM and 10 AM radio stations ) including three FM stations launched in the Maritimes in October 2005 ; Omni Television, which operates two multicultural television stations in Ontario ( OMNI. 1 and OMNI. 2 ) as well as one in Vancouver ( Channel M ) acquired in April 2008 ; Citytv acquired in 2007 ; which operates 5 stations in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver ; Sportsnet, a specialty sports television service licensed to provide regional sports programming across Canada ; The Shopping Channel, Canada's only nationally televised shopping service and The Biography Channel Canada, acquired outright in August 2006 when Rogers bought out the 40 % stake owned by Calgary's Shaw Communications and A & E Television Networks ' 20 % ownership.

CITY-DT ( known on-air as Citytv Toronto or simply Citytv ) is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The station was best known for its unconventional approach to news and local programming, creating the basis upon which the Citytv television system ( of which it is the flagship station ) was built.