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{{short description|Television station in Toronto}}
{{redirect|CITY-TV|the national television network in Canada with whom this station is affiliated|Citytv}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign = CITY-DT
| logo = Citytv logo.svg
| logo_size = 200px
| branding = Citytv Toronto; Citytv; ''[[CityNews]] Toronto'' (newscasts)
| digital = 18 ([[UHF]])
| virtual = 57
| translators = ''see {{Section link||Transmitters}}''
| affiliations = [[Citytv]]
| owner = [[Rogers Sports & Media]]
| licensee = Rogers Media Inc.<ref name="ownchart">[https://crtc.gc.ca/ownership/eng/cht027b.pdf Ownership Chart 27B – ROGERS – Radio, TV & Satellite-to-Cable]</ref>
| location = [[Toronto]], Ontario
| country = Canada
| airdate = {{Start date and age|1972|09|28|p=y}}
| callsign_meaning = "City"
| sister_stations = {{ubl|'''TV:''' [[CFMT-DT]], [[CJMT-DT]], [[Sportsnet Ontario]]|'''Radio:''' [[CFTR (AM)|CFTR]], [[CHFI-FM]], [[CJCL]], [[CKIS-FM]]}}
| former_callsigns = CITY-TV (1972–2011)
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 79 (UHF, 1972–1983), 57 (UHF, 1983–2011)|'''Digital:''' 53 (UHF, 2003–2011), 44 (UHF, 2011–2020)}}
| former_affiliations = [[Independent station|Independent]] (1972–2002)
| erp = 49.4 [[Watt|kW]]
| haat = {{convert|506|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| coordinates = {{Coord|43|38|33|N|79|23|14|W|type:landmark|display=title}}
| licensing_authority = [[CRTC]]
| website = {{URL|http://www.citytv.com/toronto|Citytv Toronto}}
}}

'''CITY-DT''' (channel 57, cable channel 7), branded '''Citytv Toronto''' or simply '''Citytv''', is a [[television station]] in [[Toronto]], Ontario, Canada, serving as the [[flagship station]] of the [[Citytv]] network, a division of [[Rogers Sports & Media]]. It is [[sister station|sister]] to [[Omni Television]] outlets [[CFMT-DT]] (channel 47) and [[CJMT-DT]] (channel 40). The stations share studios at the [[Rogers Building (Toronto)|Rogers Building]] in [[downtown Toronto]]; CITY-DT's transmitter is located atop the [[CN Tower]].

The station went on the air on September 28, 1972, by a consortium led by Phyllis Switzer, [[Moses Znaimer]], [[Jerry Grafstein]] and Edgar Cowan, as CITY-TV, branded "Citytv" on Queen Street. In 1981, the station was sold to [[CHUM Limited]], who retained Znaimer as an executive and moved to its [[299 Queen Street West]] studios in 1987. For the majority of its early life, CITY-TV operated as an [[independent station]], best known for its unconventional approaches to news and other locally produced programming. Under Znaimer's leadership, Citytv revolutionized Canadian local television by adopting a street-level, informal broadcasting style and creating interactive formats such as ''Speaker's Corner'', which anticipated user-generated content platforms decades before the internet age.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cowan |first=Jennifer |title=The Sheer Force of Attitude |url=https://www.wired.com/1993/06/citytv/ |access-date=June 5, 2025 |work=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}</ref> After having used [[Broadcast syndication|syndication]] to bring its original programming to other Canadian markets, CHUM later used CITY-TV as the basis and flagship station of a [[television system]], acquiring and establishing new stations under the Citytv name.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.videoageinternational.net/2020/03/13/hall-of-fame/moses-znaimer-a-new-mcluhan-but-with-a-mission-to-reinvent-television/|title=Moses Znaimer: A New McLuhan, But With a Mission To Reinvent Television|website=VideoAge International|date=March 13, 2020|accessdate=October 12, 2022}}</ref>

In 2006, CTVglobemedia announced its intent to acquire CHUM Limited, but was required to divest stations due to conflicts with [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] stations it already owned in Citytv's markets. CTV chose to keep the stations of CHUM's secondary [[CTV 2|A-Channel]] system, as well as CITY-TV's sister news channel [[CP24]] and its other cable channels [[MuchMusic]], but divested CITY-TV and its sister stations to Rogers Media. Under Rogers ownership, CITY-TV's programming became more conventional in nature.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rogers-media-snaps-up-5-citytv-stations-1.685324|title=Rogers Media snaps up 5 Citytv stations|website=CBC.ca|date=June 12, 2007|accessdate=October 12, 2022}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Citytv old logo.svg|150px|thumb|left|Former version of the Citytv logo, used from 1982 to 2001.]]
The station first signed on the air on September 28, 1972, broadcasting on [[UHF]] [[channel 79]], an allocation given to the station as all of the [[VHF]] licences in the Toronto area were taken by other parties. It operated as an [[independent station]], and its transmitter operated at an [[effective radiated power]] of 31{{nbsp}}[[kW]]. The founding ownership group Channel Seventy-Nine Ltd. 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 the remainder being accrued by Switzer and Cowan. The channel 79 licence was granted to the company on November 25, 1971.<ref>[http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/genesis-genius-and-tumult-at-citytv-recalled-40-years-on/1001733013/ Genesis, Genius and Tumult at Citytv Recalled 40 Years On] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208225116/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/genesis-genius-and-tumult-at-citytv-recalled-40-years-on/1001733013/|date=February 8, 2013}}, ''Broadcaster Magazine'', October 1, 2012.</ref> 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 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]] three years later. CITY was purchased outright by CHUM in 1981 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 the station on some production projects.<ref>[http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/znaimer-steps-down-as-president-of-chum-tv/1000028107/ Znaimer steps down as president of CHUM TV] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927082707/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/znaimer-steps-down-as-president-of-chum-tv/1000028107/ |date=September 27, 2013 }}, ''Broadcaster Magazine'', April 27, 2003.</ref>

In 1976, the station's main transmitter began broadcasting at 208&nbsp;kW from the [[CN Tower]]. The station switched channel allocations on July 1, 1983, moving to UHF channel 57, the result of [[Industry Canada]]'s decision to reassign frequencies corresponding to high-band UHF channels 70 to 83 to the new [[Advanced Mobile Phone System|AMPS]] [[mobile phone]] systems as a result of a CCIR international convention in 1982. On September 1, 1986, a rebroadcast transmitter was put into operation in [[Woodstock, Ontario|Woodstock]] (CITY-TV-2 on channel 31, which also served nearby [[London, Ontario|London]]); another transmitter was set up in [[Ottawa]] in 1996 (CITY-TV-3 on channel 65).

[[Image:CityTV Building.jpg|right|250px|thumb|299 Queen Street West, home of Citytv Toronto until 2009]]
In May 1987, CITY and the other CHUM-owned television properties moved their operations to the company's headquarters at [[299 Queen Street West]], 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 the station's ''CityPulse'' newscasts and select programming from CITY and other CHUM stations.

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" – with "Citytv" and "CITY" serving as interchangeable names for the station. In July 2001, however, CHUM purchased [[CKVU-TV]] in [[Vancouver]] from [[Canwest Global Communications]]; CKVU changed its branding to "Citytv" in July 2002, [[2001 Vancouver TV realignment|making Citytv a two-station system]]. In 2005, three more Citytv stations were added in [[Calgary]] ([[CKAL-TV]]), [[Edmonton]] ([[CKEM-TV]]) and [[Winnipeg]] ([[CHMI-TV]]) after CHUM purchased the [[A-Channel]] television stations and other assets owned by [[Craig Media]] (the existing A-Channel brand was revamped and was transferred to CHUM's former [[NewNet]] stations). When the three A-Channel stations switched to the Citytv brand on August 2, 2005, the flagship ''CityPulse'' newscast was renamed ''[[CityNews]]''.

===Sale to Rogers Media===
{{see also|2007 Canada broadcast TV realignment}}
[[File:City logo 2012.svg|150px|right|thumb|Logo used when the network was branded as "City"]]
[[File:City tv OMNI Doors Open Toronto 2012.jpg|150px|right|thumb|CITY-DT's studios at the Rogers Media Complex on [[33 Dundas Street East]] facing [[Sankofa Square]] in Toronto, used from 2009 to 2025]]
On July 12, 2006, CTVglobemedia announced its offer to acquire CHUM Limited and its assets, including the Citytv stations, and related cable properties for $1.7 billion.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-globemedia-makes-1-7b-bid-for-chum-1.583543 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110908083837/http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/07/12/chum-bell.html | url-status=live | archive-date=September 8, 2011 | work=CBC News | title=Bell Globemedia makes .7B bid for CHUM | date=July 12, 2006}}</ref> Since CTV already owned television stations in all Citytv markets (including Toronto, where CTV [[owned-and-operated station|owns and operates]] [[CFTO-TV]], channel 9), the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] (CRTC) stipulated the sale of the Citytv stations as a condition for the approval of the CHUM purchase. The Citytv stations (including CITY) were subsequently sold to [[Rogers Communications]]: the sale was approved by the CRTC on September 28, 2007, and Rogers took ownership on October 31. CTV kept ownership of 299 Queen Street West, where CHUM's specialty television channels now owned by CTV (such as CP24, [[MuchMusic]], [[Star!]], [[CTV Drama Channel|Bravo!]] and [[CTV Sci-Fi Channel|Space]]) would remain. As such, Rogers had to find a new home for CITY-TV's operations. Rogers subsequently purchased [[33 Dundas Street East]], the former [[Olympic Spirit Toronto|Olympic Spirit]] building located at the edge of [[Sankofa Square]], to house the operations of its Toronto television stations; CITY-TV moved into the new facility on September 8, 2009.<ref>[https://www.thestar.com/Business/article/224640 "Rogers to move Citytv from Queen"]. ''Toronto Star'', June 13, 2007.</ref><ref>[https://www.thestar.com/Business/article/269424 "Dundas Square new home of Citytv".] ''Toronto Star'', October 23, 2007.</ref>

The Citytv system expanded into Western Canada in 2009 when the [[Jim Pattison Group]] signed a deal to carry the system's programming on its stations in [[Kamloops]] ([[CFJC-TV]]), [[Prince George, British Columbia|Prince George]] ([[CKPG-TV]]) and [[Medicine Hat]] ([[CHAT-TV]]);<ref>{{cite press release|title=Jim Pattison Broadcast Group solidifies Program Supply agreement for three independent stations serving BC and Alberta|publisher=Jim Pattison Broadcast Group|date=July 14, 2009|url=http://www.jimpattison.com/corporate/news/2009/071409.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831104852/http://www.jimpattison.com/corporate/news/2009/071409.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 31, 2009|access-date=July 19, 2009}}</ref> Rogers signed a long-term affiliation renewal agreement for the Pattison stations in September 2012.<ref>[http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/citytv-and-pattison-group-sign-affiliate-agreement/1001126576/ Citytv and Pattison Group Sign Affiliate Agreement] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208162153/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/citytv-and-pattison-group-sign-affiliate-agreement/1001126576/ |date=December 8, 2015 }}, ''Broadcaster Magazine'', May 3, 2012.</ref> Rogers gained two more outlets in a cable-only channel in [[Saskatchewan]] ([[Citytv Saskatchewan]]) and a station in Montreal ([[CJNT-DT]]) to broaden and expand its national coverage beginning in 2013, effectively transforming City from a television system to a television network.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.financialpost.com/m/wp/fp-tech-desk/blog.html?b=business.financialpost.com/2012/12/20/rogers-fast-growing-tv-network-expands-citytv-into-montreal |title=Rogers' fast-growing TV network expands Citytv into Montreal<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=January 24, 2013 |archive-date=October 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012083719/http://www.financialpost.com/m/wp/fp-tech-desk/blog.html?b=business.financialpost.com%2F2012%2F12%2F20%2Frogers-fast-growing-tv-network-expands-citytv-into-montreal |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Rogers-SCN">[http://business.financialpost.com/2012/01/17/rogers-to-buy-scn-launch-citytv-saskatchewan/ Rogers to buy SCN, launch Citytv Saskatchewan]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2012/2012-475.htm|title=Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2012-475|author=[[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]]|date=September 5, 2012|access-date=September 10, 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/com100/2012/r121220.htm CRTC increases the diversity of voices in the Montreal market] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109100649/http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/com100/2012/r121220.htm|date=January 9, 2013}} CRTC December 20, 2012</ref>

On October 3, 2011, Rogers Media launched the [[CityNews Channel]], a 24-hour regional news channel for the Toronto area utilizing the resources of CITY-DT's news department, and other Rogers-owned news and media properties such as [[all-news radio]] station [[CFTR (AM)|CFTR]] (680 AM) and ''[[Maclean's]]'' magazine. The channel used the same news wheel format as CFTR with traffic and weather reports at the top and bottom of every hour, sports news at 15 and 45 minutes past the hour and business news at 26 and 56 minutes past the hour. In addition to rolling news programming, CityNews Channel aired simulcasts of Citytv Toronto's news programming, and an audio feed from CFTR during the overnight hours.<ref>[http://www.rogersmediatv.ca/pr_detail.php?id=357 Rogers Media announces launch of new Toronto 24-hour City''News Channel'', Fall 2011]</ref> Due to financial difficulties, Rogers ceased CityNews Channel's live broadcasts on May 30, 2013, with the channel permanently shutting down on June 30, 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/rogers-media-cancels-citynews-channel-and-omnis-english-south-asian-newcast/1002360229/|title=Rogers Media Cancels CityNews Channel and OMNI's English South Asian Newcast|access-date=July 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709054424/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/rogers-media-cancels-citynews-channel-and-omnis-english-south-asian-newcast/1002360229|archive-date=July 9, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[https://www.thestar.com/business/2013/05/30/citynews_channel_shut_down_by_rogers.html CityNews channel shut down by Rogers]</ref>

Citytv Toronto celebrated its 50th anniversary on September 28, 2022.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/09/28/citytv-50-anniversary/ | title=CityNews }}</ref>

Citytv and [[Omni Television]] moved their operations to the [[Rogers Building (Toronto)|Rogers Building]] at Bloor and Mount Pleasant in March 2025.<ref name=banfield>{{cite news|first=Devon|last=Banfield|url=https://nowtoronto.com/news/breakfast-television-end-of-era/|title='New desk, new hosts,' Breakfast Television is leaving its iconic downtown studio after almost 16 years|newspaper=[[Now (newspaper)|Now]]|date=March 14, 2025|accessdate=March 15, 2025}}</ref>

==Programming==
{{main|List of programs broadcast by Citytv}}
[[File:City tv control room Doors Open Toronto 2012 (1).jpg|thumb|Citytv control room during Doors Open Toronto 2012]]
CITY-TV and the Citytv system/network has traditionally pursued a programming strategy targeting hip, young and urban audiences, and featured [[science fiction]] series (such as the ''[[Stargate]]'' and ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchises) with significant cult followings. The Citytv system has also sometimes aired more adult-oriented fare than most television stations, including the [[softcore pornography|softcore]] film showcase ''[[The Baby Blue Movie]]'' and the television edition of ''[[Naked News]]'', both of which were shown very late at night. CITY also aired ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'' from its debut in 1986 until the start of the 1992–93 season, when the show's broadcast rights were purchased by CTV and its local affiliate CFTO-TV, which aired the talk show until it ended its run in 2011. Shortly after its takeover by Rogers, Citytv's long-running ''Great Movies'' block was cancelled in favour of running more series. Late night reruns of the ''Great Movies'' block were replaced by [[infomercial]]s.

The station has also produced much more local programming than most other Canadian television stations, including the daily talk show ''[[CityLine]]'' (hosted first by [[Dini Petty]], then [[Marilyn Denis]], and now [[Tracy Moore (Canadian journalist)|Tracy Moore]]); magazine series such as ''[[The NewMusic]]'', ''[[Toronto Rocks]]'', ''[[FashionTelevision]]'', ''[[Life on Venus Ave.]]'' and ''[[MovieTelevision]]''; and interactive series such as ''[[Speakers' Corner (TV series)|Speakers' Corner]]''. As well, the station often pursued synergies with its sister cable networks, sharing programming with MuchMusic, Bravo!, Space and CP24. The station also produced the ''Citytv [[New Year's Eve]] Bash'', a live concert special from [[Nathan Phillips Square]] – although it still sponsored (and aired some coverage of) the event, it was replaced on-air with ''[[Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve]]'' in simulcast with [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] for 2013–14.<ref name=city-nyrecanada>{{cite web|title=Skating & food trucks on offer at City's New Year's Eve party|url=https://toronto.citynews.ca/2013/12/12/skating-food-trucks-on-offer-at-citys-new-years-eve-party/|work=CityNews Toronto|publisher=[[Rogers Media]]|access-date=December 16, 2013}}</ref><ref name=torsun-torontonye>{{cite news|title=No politicians on stage for Nathan Phillips Square NYE bash|url=http://www.torontosun.com/2013/12/12/no-politicians-on-stage-for-nathan-phillips-square-nye-bash|newspaper=Toronto Sun|access-date=December 16, 2013}}</ref>

=== Sports programming ===
On March 2, 2008, CITY aired its first [[Toronto Blue Jays]] [[Major League Baseball]] game, a [[spring training]] game against the [[Cincinnati Reds]]<ref>[http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2008/19/c3779.html February 19, 2008 press release via CNW Group]</ref> (both Citytv and the Blue Jays are owned by Rogers Media). This is not the first time that a live sporting event has aired on a Citytv station, it also served as the Canadian broadcaster for ''[[Monday Night Football]]'' along with [[CBC Television|CBC]] until its American rights moved from [[ESPN on ABC|ABC]] to [[ESPN]], and in Canada to [[The Sports Network|TSN]], in 2006. Beginning with the [[2007 NFL season]] as part of Rogers Media's broadcast rights with the [[NFL]]; two late season games were shown by CITY and Vancouver sister station CKVU-TV weekly, the opposite games aired regionally on their respective [[Sportsnet]] feed. In [[2008 Buffalo Bills season|2008]], CITY aired the pre-season games of the [[Buffalo Bills]], which included a game played at [[Rogers Centre]] as part of the [[Bills Toronto Series]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buffalobills.com/news/news.jsp?NEWS_ID=6359|title=Bills preseason game an HD first|access-date=August 10, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080809215850/http://www.buffalobills.com/news/news.jsp?news_id=6359|archive-date=August 9, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> From 2014 until 2017 (when this portion of the package was acquired by TSN and [[CTV Two]]), it also aired ''[[Thursday Night Football]]'' games in simulcast with [[CBS Sports|CBS]].

Under Sportsnet's [[NHL on Sportsnet|television deal]] with the [[National Hockey League]] beginning in the [[2014–15 NHL season]], the station, along with the rest of the City network, airs a Saturday night game as part of the ''[[Hockey Night In Canada]]'' package. [[Toronto Maple Leafs]] games are typically designated to CBC Television and CBLT during ''Hockey Night'', unless otherwise simulcast. Often, City broadcasts [[Montreal Canadiens]] games. In the inaugural season, City also broadcast the Sunday-night ''[[Rogers Hometown Hockey]]'' games, before they moved exclusively to Sportsnet.

The station simulcast games 3 and 5 of the [[2019 NBA Finals]] featuring the [[2018–19 Toronto Raptors season|Toronto Raptors]]. The simulcast was intended to enforce [[simsub]] rights on ABC affiliates, and hence used the ''[[NBA on ESPN]]'' telecast rather than the Sportsnet-produced telecast.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://toronto.citynews.ca/2019/05/30/where-to-watch-raptors-nba-final/|title=Where to watch Raptors vs. Warriors NBA finals|website=CityNews Toronto|publisher=Rogers Media|access-date=June 4, 2019}}</ref> CITY-TV was also one of the two original regional broadcasters (alongside then co-owned [[CKVR]]) of Raptors games during the team's first three seasons in the NBA from 1995 to 1998.

===News operation===
{{Expand section|history of CITY-TV's news department|date=August 2011}}
{{further|CityNews#CityNews Toronto|l1=CityNews Toronto}}
CITY-DT broadcasts {{frac|34|1|2}} hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with {{frac|6|1|2}} hours each weekday and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the largest local newscast output among the [[Greater Toronto Area]] market's television stations and the largest of any station in Ontario. It is also the only remaining owned-and-operated station of the Citytv network that operates a full-scale news department, as local midday and evening newscasts on its Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver sister stations were cancelled between 2006 and 2010; outside of Toronto, locally produced programming on Citytv's O&O sister stations is now limited to local versions of the morning news and talk program franchise ''[[Breakfast Television]]'', a program that originated on CITY in September 1989. For many years, CITY aired its late evening newscast at 10&nbsp;p.m. (as such, it was one of the few Canadian television stations to air a local news program during the final hour of prime time, a more common practice across the border in the United States); after Citytv became a television system and shifted its prime time schedule towards a line-up of primarily American programs, the station moved its late newscast to 11&nbsp;p.m.

On January 19, 2010, Rogers Media announced the immediate cancellation of ''CityNews at Noon'', ''CityOnline'', ''CityNews at Five'', Citytv's national and international newscast ''CityNews International'', and the station's weekend evening newscasts, as part of massive restructuring and layoffs at the Citytv stations. Among those laid off were longtime 6&nbsp;p.m. co-anchor [[Anne Mroczkowski]] and six reporters (Farah Nasser, Jee Yun Lee, Laura Di Battista, Marianne Dimain, Merella Fernandez and Michael Serapio); Pam Seatle was also dismissed, but returned to the station one month later.<ref>[http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/68327--layoffs-cancelled-shows-at-citytv Layoffs, Cancelled Shows At Citytv] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122082059/http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/68327--layoffs-cancelled-shows-at-citytv |date=January 22, 2010 }} citynews.ca, published January 19, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2010/19/c2082.html Citytv Restructures Television Operations To Improve Business and Better Serve Audiences] Rogers Media press release via CNW Group, published January 19, 2010.</ref>

The weekend 6 and 11&nbsp;p.m. newscasts returned to the station in March 2011, followed by the return of the weekday ''CityNews at Five'' and the half-hour expansion of ''Breakfast Television'' (with its start time moved up to 5:30&nbsp;a.m., and expanding to {{frac|3|1|2}} hours as a result) on September 5, 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/citytv-launches-news-at-five-and-breakfast-television-at-5-30-am/1000545115/ |title=Citytv Launches News at Five and Breakfast Television at 5:30 am |access-date=August 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319223544/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/citytv-launches-news-at-five-and-breakfast-television-at-5-30-am/1000545115/ |archive-date=March 19, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On October 3, 2011, the station began producing half-hour extensions of ''Breakfast Television'' and its nightly 11&nbsp;p.m. newscast, ''CityNews Tonight'', for exclusive broadcast on CityNews Channel (these, along with a half-hour extension of the weekend 6&nbsp;p.m. newscast also began airing on CITY-DT the following year, and became exclusive to CITY-DT once CityNews Channel ceased operations).

On April 14, 2012, CITY-DT began simulcasting CityNews Channel's morning news programming from Saturdays from 7 to 8&nbsp;a.m. and Sundays from 7 to 9&nbsp;a.m., becoming the only television station in the Toronto market that carried news programs on weekend mornings; this ended when CityNews Channel discontinued live broadcasts in May 2013, with CITY-DT filling those time periods with a mix of infomercials and lifestyle programming.<ref>[http://tvloon.ca/citytv-toronto-expands-news-on-weekend Citytv Toronto Expands News on Weekend] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223230302/http://tvloon.ca/citytv-toronto-expands-news-on-weekend |date=February 23, 2015}}, TVLoon.ca, April 9, 2012.</ref> On August 13, 2012, the station expanded its nightly 11&nbsp;p.m. newscast, ''CityNews Tonight'', to one hour, making the program the only hour-long late evening newscast in the Toronto market.<ref>[http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/citynews-tonight-expands-to-one-hour/1001614947/ CityNews Tonight Expands to One Hour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221212446/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/citynews-tonight-expands-to-one-hour/1001614947/ |date=February 21, 2014 }}, ''Broadcaster Magazine'', August 13, 2012.</ref> In September 2013, the weeknight 5&nbsp;p.m. newscast was reformatted as ''The 5''.

===Notable current on-air staff===
* [[Kevin Frankish]] – documentaries and special projects. formerly weekday mornings on ''Breakfast Television'' (last show June 1, 2018)
* [[Cynthia Mulligan]] – general assignment reporter
* [[Dina Pugliese]] – weekday mornings on ''Breakfast Television''

====Notable former on-air staff====
{{Div col}}
* [[Thalia Assuras]]
* [[Dan Aykroyd]] – original staff announcer (1972–1973)
* [[Hugh Burrill]] – weekend sports anchor; also sports reporter
* [[Bill Cameron (journalist)|Bill Cameron]]
* [[Lance Chilton]] – City''News''/[[CP24]] reporter
* [[Jojo Chintoh]] – City''News''/CP24 reporter
* [[Denise Donlon]] 
* [[Dwight Drummond]] – crime specialist
* [[Mark Dailey]] – City''News Tonight'' anchor/continuity announcer<ref>[http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/102653--a-legend-lost-toronto-mourns-the-death-of-mark-dailey A Legend Lost: Toronto Mourns the Death of Mark Dailey] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101209111314/http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/102653--a-legend-lost-toronto-mourns-the-death-of-mark-dailey |date=December 9, 2010 }}</ref>
* [[Mary Garofalo]]
* [[Melissa Grelo]] – City''News'' anchor/reporter
* [[Avery Haines]] – general assignment reporter
* [[Lorne Honickman]] – City''Pulse''/City''News'' legal specialist
* [[Kathryn Humphreys]] – lead sports anchor; weeknights on City''News Tonight''
* [[Robert Hunter (journalist)|Bob Hunter]]
* [[Andrew Krystal]] – former general assignment reporter
* [[Avi Lewis]]
* [[Stephen Lewis]] – commentator
* [[Brian Linehan]] – host of ''[[City Lights (1973 TV series)|City Lights]]'' (1973–1988)
* [[Amber MacArthur]] – City''News'' new media specialist
* [[Gord Martineau]] – weeknights anchor
* [[Jim McKenny]]
* [[Tracy Moore (Canadian journalist)|Tracy Moore]] – ''Breakfast Television'', Cityline and City''News'' reporter
* [[Anne Mroczkowski]]
* [[Farah Nasser]]
* [[David Onley]] – City''News'' science and technology specialist, CP24 anchor and host of ''Homepage''
* [[Dini Petty]] – co-anchor of City''Pulse'' and later host of ''CityLine''
* [[Alex Pierson]] – general assignment reporter
* [[John Roberts (television reporter)|John Roberts]] (credited as J. D. Roberts) – 6&nbsp;p.m. entertainment reporter/weekend anchor of City''Pulse Tonight''
* [[Ann Rohmer]] – ''Breakfast Television'' host, City''News'' anchor and host of ''CityOnLine''
* [[Omar Sachedina]] – general assignment reporter
* [[John Saunders (journalist)|John Saunders]] – sportscaster (later with [[ESPN]] and [[ABC Sports]])
* [[Peter Silverman]] – City''News'' "Good Samaritan"
* [[Jennifer Valentyne]] – "Live Eye" reporter for ''Breakfast Television''
{{div col end}}

==Technical information==

===Subchannel===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannel of CITY-DT<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=CITY#station|title=RabbitEars TV Query for CITY|website=[[RabbitEars]]|accessdate=January 4, 2025}}</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#Canada|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming 
|- 
! scope = "row" | 57.1 
| [[1080i]] || [[16:9]] || CITYTV || [[Citytv]]
|}

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
CITY-TV launched a test transmission of its digital signal using the [[ATSC Standards|ATSC DTV standard]] on January 16, 2003, and began regular digital transmission a month and a half later on March 3, becoming the first station in Canada to operate a [[digital television]] signal. CITY-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 57, on August 31, 2011, the date on which Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatory [[media market|markets]] [[Digital television in Canada|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]]. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 53 to its post-transition UHF channel 44, using [[virtual channel]] 57.<ref name="Analog to Digital">[http://digitaltv.gc.ca/eng/1298735205509/1298735205543 Digital Television – Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA)<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131120000114/http://digitaltv.gc.ca/eng/1298735205509/1298735205543 |date=November 20, 2013 }}</ref> It is now broadcasting on RF channel 18 while still using the same virtual channel.

===Transmitters===
{{geoGroup}}
{| class="wikitable"
! Station
! [[City of licence]]
! [[channel (broadcasting)|Channel]]<br>([[digital terrestrial television|RF]] / [[virtual channel|VC]])
! [[effective radiated power|ERP]]
! [[HAAT]]
! Transmitter coordinates
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| '''CITY-DT-2'''
| [[Woodstock, Ontario|Woodstock]]
| 31 ([[UHF]])<br>31
| 20&nbsp;kW
| {{convert|293.0|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| {{coord|43|2|46|N|80|46|4|W|type:landmark|name=CITY-TV-2}}
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| '''CITY-DT-3'''
| [[Ottawa]]
| 17 (UHF)<br>65
| 5.1&nbsp;kW
| {{convert|215.4|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| {{coord|45|13|2|N|75|33|49|W|type:landmark|name=CITY-TV-3}}
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Official website|http://www.citytv.com/toronto/}}
* [https://broadcasting-history.ca/television/television-stations/ontario/toronto-and-vicinity/CITY-DT CITY-DT] at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the [[Canadian Communications Foundation]]
*[http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/citytv/citytv.htm Museum of Broadcast Communications: CITY-TV]
*{{RecnetCanada|CITY-DT}}

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