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''CityNews'' (corporately styled City''News'') is the title of news and current affairs programming on Rogers Sports & Media's
Citytv Citytv is a Canadian television network owned by the Rogers Sports & Media subsidiary of Rogers Communications. The licence of the original Citytv station, granted the callsign of CITY-TV by the CRTC on November 25, 1971 to Cable Television ...
network in Canada. The newscast division was founded on September 28, 1975 as ''CityPulse'' as a standalone local newscast on the network's
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and
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stations owned by CHUM Limited. Through the acquisitions of the
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,
Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749 ...
and
Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, maki ...
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stations in 2004, it was relaunched under the CityNews brand on August 2, 2005 and later expanded to
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in 2012. The remaining Citytv stations airs the news headlines segments during each station's ''
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'' morning show. Before the 2017–2018 relaunch of CityNews nationally, Citytv stations outside Toronto had their midday and evening news programs cancelled in 2006, and the remaining news programming on these stations (such as the nationally-broadcast ''CityNews International'') was cancelled in early 2010. After a soft launch in 2020 via CIWW/ CJET-FM Ottawa, in June 2021 Rogers extended the ''CityNews'' branding to its
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stations.


''CityNews'' Toronto


History

The newscast was broadcast in Toronto as ''CityPulse'' as a pilot episode on September 28, 1975, and as a second pilot episode on September 12, 1976. The first regular episode of ''CityPulse'' aired on September 12, 1977. On August 1, 2005, the final ''CityPulse'' titled newscast aired and it was renamed ''CityNews'' the next day. While the station claims that it was the first news show to abandon the traditional anchor desk,
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in the United States had done this as early as the 1950s under Edward R. Murrow. Its main innovation in television news was to have its reporters play a more participatory role in their stories. Elements of it were also taken from then-sister station ATV in the Maritimes, whose ''Live at 5'' newscast, launched in 1982, had lead anchor Dave Wright roaming around the ATV newsroom and talking with the reporters. By the mid-1980s, the newscast's style, pioneered by Moses Znaimer, was promoted as a "format" for local news shows to copy around North America. The show has been duplicated by other television stations owned by CHUM Limited and its format has been licensed to several television stations around the world, such as Citytv Barcelona and Citytv Bogotá. Other attempts to clone the format with regional changes have also been attempted; notably, two American attempts at a ''CityPulse''-style newscast debuted within months of each other in 1993: KCOP-TV in Los Angeles with ''13 Real News'', and
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in Seattle with what was dubbed "News Outside the Box" (the latter station attempted to leverage its then-sister radio stations as well). Both attempts failed and by 1994 both stations had reverted to "traditional" newscasts. Until 1987, the anchors on ''CityPulse'' sat behind an anchor desk in a dark studio with two orange-red-black striped beams and a television set between the two anchors. ''CityPulse at Six'' was anchored by
Gord Martineau Gord Martineau (born September 23, 1947) is a Canadian television journalist. In April 2007, he received a lifetime achievement award from the RTNDA for 40 years in broadcasting. Martineau worked briefly in radio in Halifax, Nova Scotia and M ...
and
Dini Petty Dini Petty (born January 15, 1945) is a Canadian television and radio host. At 22, wearing a trademark pink jumpsuit and working for Toronto radio station CKEY, she became the first female traffic reporter to pilot her own helicopter. She clock ...
for most of the years from 1980 to 1987. Weather presenters during that era included CHUM Radio veteran Jay Nelson, Brian Hill, Greg Rist, and
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, Russ Salzberg, John Saunders,
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, and
Ann Rohmer Ann Margaret Rohmer (born March 2, 1958) is a Canadian television personality known for her work on Citytv and CP24 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Early life and career Rohmer's father is Richard Rohmer, an officer with the Royal Canadian Air F ...
. ''CityPulse Tonight'', known as ''CityPulse News at 10'' prior to 1981, was anchored by Bill Cameron, later by Gord Martineau, and then
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. In 1987, Mroczkowski moved to the supper-hour show to co-anchor with Martineau. J.D. (John) Roberts began his news anchoring career as anchor of ''CityPulse Tonight'' after several years as an entertainment reporter and
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video jockey. On May 4, 1987, ''CityPulse'' moved into a newsroom set at 299 Queen Street West in Toronto along with the other station operations, from 99 Queen Street East. After the move, ''CityPulse'' began to move the anchors away from a central desk, positioning them around the newsroom (such as the assignment desk, equipped with police radios, banks of monitors, and perhaps the most unique feature, a map of Toronto with blinking lights indicating major highways, positioned behind a large glass wall, allowing the anchors to draw on the glass with markers to indicate the locations of stories and incidents), or walking through the newsroom. 24-hour coverage, akin to the ''24-Hour News Source'' format popular in the US at the time, was instituted in the early 1990s, initially to cover the Gulf War (known as ''Gulfwatch''). The updates were refined into a regular feature after the end of the war. These were branded as ''CityPulse (Overnight) NewsFlashes'', for shorter updates (typically a shot of the darkened newsroom, followed by shots of area traffic cameras; a ticker would display one or two headlines, sports scores, a weather forecast, and/or the time of the next update; the sounds of the newsroom and/or a police scanner would be heard underneath), or as simply ''CityPulse Updates'', for longer updates anchored by a CityPulse reporter (often Kevin Frankish) from the assignment desk, who, in a unique twist, would operate the camera themselves via a control device. By March 2008, ''CityNews'' Toronto was struggling in the ratings, coming in third (with an average of 100,000 viewers) after
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(326,000 viewers) and Global (126,000). On January 21, 2008, ''CityNews at 5'' debuted, drawing a scant 1% share of the Toronto market at 5 p.m. In July 2008, Rogers filed an application with the
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(CRTC) to launch a separate 24-hour news station to be affiliated with Citytv Toronto, and to be known as CityNews (Toronto). The application was approved on December 10, 2008. The new station was in direct competition with CP24 which was launched on October 3, 2011, as CityNews Channel. In December 2008, Citytv laid off the entire ''CityNews Entertainment'' unit. Entertainment reporters Larysa Harapyn and Liz West were released, and entertainment stories were then read by the anchors. In September 2009, Citytv moved into its current newsroom at 33 Dundas Street East ( Yonge-Dundas Square) in
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. On January 19, 2010, ''CityNews at Noon'', ''CityOnline'' and ''CityNews at Five'' were cancelled as part of layoffs and restructuring within the Citytv stations. Many long-time ''CityNews'' on-air personalities, including
Anne Mroczkowski Anne Mroczkowski (born July 16, 1953) is a Canadian TV reporter and news anchor. She is the former co-anchor of '' Global News Hour'', along with Leslie Roberts, a job she started on June 1, 2010. Roberts announced Mroczkowski's departure on-air o ...
and Laura DiBattista, were let go. Citytv Toronto reinstated the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts on Saturday and Sunday evenings on March 5, 2011, with Pam Seatle anchoring the 6 p.m. newscast, and Melanie Ng anchoring at 11 p.m. On September 5, 2011, Citytv Toronto also reinstated ''CityNews at Five'' with anchors Francis D'Souza, Tom Hayes, and Avery Haines. The following day on September 6, 2011, ''Breakfast Television'' on all five of Citytv's owned-and-operated stations expanded to three-and-a-half hours, from 5:30-9 a.m. Avery Haines then left ''CityNews at Five'' to start a segment called "The Inside Story" that features on Tuesdays and Thursdays on ''CityNews at Six''. On August 13, 2012, CITY-TV expanded its nightly 11 p.m. newscast, ''CityNews Tonight'', from 30 minutes to one hour. In 2015, the station changed the format of its evening newscasts, removing the in-studio anchor and having all stories presented by videojournalists on the field. The reduced cost format is designed to appeal to younger viewers with a more "raw" presentation, and appeal to increased trust in the reporters and their journalism.


''CityNews'' on CP24

Prior to 2008, ''CityNews'' and local cable news channel,
CP24 CP24 is a Canadian English-language specialty news channel owned by Bell Media, a subsidiary of BCE Inc. and operated alongside the Bell-owned CTV Television Network's owned-and-operated television stations CFTO-DT (CTV Toronto) and CKVR-DT ( ...
were a combined operation sharing the same newsroom and studio space at
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. CP24 simulcasted Citytv news programs such as ''Breakfast Television'' and ''CityNews''. CP24 also reran most ''CityNews'' programming immediately after it was done airing live. In July 2006, Bell Globemedia (later CTVglobemedia and now
Bell Media Bell Media Inc. (French: ) is a Canadian company formed by the amalgamation of several companies. Establishment (2011–13) On December 9, 2011, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan announced the sale of its majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports ...
) announced a bid to purchase Citytv/CP24's parent company, CHUM Limited. A year later, the CRTC approved the sale on the condition that the Citytv stations be sold. Shortly after, the sale of Citytv stations to
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was finalized. For a short period, things remained the same; Citytv anchors continued to anchor and contribute to CP24 and shows were simulcast between the two channels until CTV/Rogers announced the restructuring of its employees between to two channels beginning in November 2007, such as the hiring of new CP24-only and ''CityNews''-only personalities. In November 2008, CP24 moved most of its operations from its original newsroom, shared with Citytv, to a new state-of-the-art newsroom on the second floor with windows facing Queen Street West and at the same time CP24 unveiled a new look to its on-screen format. CP24 continued to simulcast ''CityNews'' programming up until December 10, 2008, when CTV pulled almost all Citytv news programming with the exception of ''Breakfast Television''. That night, '' CTV News at Six'' replaced ''CityNews at Six'', which had remained in place since the channel began broadcasting in 1998. Critics had speculated that the latter change was due to the CRTC's approval of Citytv Toronto planning on launching CityNews Channel. One of the final ties was severed on March 26, 2009, when CP24 dropped its simulcast of ''Breakfast Television'' and launched its own morning show, ''
CP24 Breakfast ''CP24 Breakfast'' is a Canadian morning television news show that airs on CP24 (Toronto's 24-hour local television news service) weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., and weekends from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. The weekday edit ...
''. Following the layoffs at the Citytv stations announced on January 19, 2010, CP24 extended its '' Live at 5'' broadcast from 15 minutes to 30, and also launched another half-hour newscast, '' Live at 5:30''. The show was featured a CP24 personality that hosted both '' Live at 5'' and ''Live at 5:30''; having interviews and updating Toronto on what is happening in the city. In addition, two other CP24 anchors would host the show, one co-hosting at 5pm and the other co-hosting at 5:30pm, bringing Toronto's Top Stories. By July 2012, ''Live at 5'' and ''Live at 5:30'' were brought back to the regular CP24 news format and with just one anchor 5pm and one anchor for 5:30pm.


''CityNews'' Weather

''CityNews'' is the only newscast in Canada that operates its own weather monitoring stations across the
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. In addition to 20 weather stations, ''CityNews'' introduced a CityNews Weather LiveEye, a mobile unit that can monitor the weather anywhere. On June 21, 2007, ''CityNews'' launched ''CityNews'' Weather Online, a desktop program that is more convenient than accessing their website. The program includes features to alert the user when a weather watch or warning is issued. In November 2008, ''CityNews'' launched ''CityNews'' Weather Webcast, which are video weather forecasts recorded each day by one of the weather team members.


''CityNews'' Webcast

On February 14, 2007, ''CityNews'' created the ''CityNews'' Webcast, a downloadable news
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based in Toronto. There are three Webcasts uploaded on weekdays: in the morning, presented by Kevin Frankish from ''Breakfast Television''; in the afternoon, presented by ''CityNews at Six'' anchor
Gord Martineau Gord Martineau (born September 23, 1947) is a Canadian television journalist. In April 2007, he received a lifetime achievement award from the RTNDA for 40 years in broadcasting. Martineau worked briefly in radio in Halifax, Nova Scotia and M ...
; and the final Webcast in the evening, presented by the anchor hosting ''CityNews Tonight''.


Theme music and opens

The ''CityPulse'' newscast originally began with the instrumental version of "Masterpiece" by
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. In 1979, it was changed to a rendition of " Gonna Fly Now" by
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; the theme was remixed and rearranged well into the 2000s. The theme for ''CityPulse Tonight'' continued to be "Masterpiece" until the early 1980s. From 1985 until 1994, "Pentatus" by Graham Shaw was used as the theme music for ''CityPulse Tonight''. The current theme is a custom-composed music piece.


''CityNews Channel''

On May 30, 2011, Rogers Media announced plans to launch a
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licensed as a Category B service with the
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called CityNews Channel, a 24-hour news network based in Toronto that would bring together resources from a number of Rogers-owned news and media properties, including Citytv Toronto, 680 News radio, and ''
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'' magazine. The channel features "an enriched and interactive screen format," likely similar to that of
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's
CP24 CP24 is a Canadian English-language specialty news channel owned by Bell Media, a subsidiary of BCE Inc. and operated alongside the Bell-owned CTV Television Network's owned-and-operated television stations CFTO-DT (CTV Toronto) and CKVR-DT ( ...
, the channel's main competitor. CityNews Channel was launched on October 3, 2011, using the same news wheel format as 680News, with traffic and weather reports on the :1s, sports news at :15 and :45 and business news at :26 and :56 past the hour. The channel's anchors were rotated depending on the time period. Rolling news programming airs weekdays from 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m., weekends from 7 a.m. – 6 p.m. and nightly from 7–11 p.m. ET; all Citytv Toronto news programming is simulcast on the channel (including weekday morning news/talk program ''Breakfast Television'' and nightly 11 p.m. newscast ''CityNews Tonight'', which both feature an additional half-hour seen exclusively on CityNews Channel); an audio simulcast of 680News featuring live traffic camera feeds throughout Toronto also runs from 1-5:30 a.m. weeknights and midnight – 7 a.m. weekends. Beginning April 14, 2012, Citytv Toronto ran a simulcast of CityNews Channel's weekend morning news programming every Saturday morning from 7–8 a.m. and Sunday mornings from 7–9 a.m. The channel abruptly ceased operations at 9 am on May 30, 2013.


''CityNews'' in other markets

''CityPulse'' was launched in
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in 2002 when CKVU-TV was rebranded as "Citytv Vancouver". With the expansion of Citytv from two to five stations in August 2005, the newscasts on all five Citytv stations were renamed ''CityNews''. On July 12, 2006, coincident with the announcement of
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's plans to take over CHUM Limited, all prime-time ''CityNews'' programs, with the exception of those on CITY in Toronto, were immediately cancelled, with 281 CHUM employees across the country laid off. On CKAL
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and CKEM
Edmonton Edmonton ( ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. The city an ...
, ''CityNews at Six'' and ''CityNews Tonight'' was replaced with a new half-hour newsmagazine called ''Your City''. CHMI
Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749 ...
had been slated to launch its own version in January 2007 according to a news release, but it never materialized. CKVU's newscasts were not replaced, although a noon newscast based on the ''Breakfast Television'' format called ''Lunch Television'' was launched in early 2009. City''News at Noon'' in Calgary and Edmonton, and ''Lunch Television'' in Vancouver continued until January 19, 2010. When the show made the transition to ''CityNews'', it lost several features, such as the CityPulse Webtest, which had existed since the 1980s as a phone-in contest. The new format on CHMI, which had been called ''A-Channel News'' (which was later used by
CTVglobemedia Bell Media Inc. (French: ) is a Canadian company formed by the amalgamation of several companies. Establishment (2011–13) On December 9, 2011, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan announced the sale of its majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports ...
's A stations, under the name ''
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'', prior to the rebranding of the A system to CTV Two in August 2011), had lost nearly half of its audience for the 6 p.m. newscast before its cancellation. On June 8, 2007, the CRTC approved the CTV takeover of CHUM. However, the five Citytv stations could not be sold to CTVglobemedia due to
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regulations. On June 11,
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announced that it would buy the five Citytv stations from CTVglobemedia. The sale was approved on September 28 and became official on October 31, 2007. 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''. On January 19, 2010, ''Your City'', based in CKEM-TV Edmonton and CKAL-TV Calgary, ''Lunch Television'', and the comedy show ''The CityNews List'' on CKVU-TV Vancouver were also cancelled. In Winnipeg, the news part of ''Breakfast Television'' is called ''CityNews''. The
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stations ( CFJC-TV
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,
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Prince George, and CHAT-TV
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) produce their own weeknight local newscasts, but do not produce their own local versions of ''Breakfast Television'' nor title their newscasts under the ''CityNews'' branding. In fact, despite keeping the same on-air branding and logos used as affiliates of the E! system, they do not bear the Citytv branding. However, as part of a renewal of their affiliation agreements with Citytv on May 3, 2012, CKPG, CHAT and CJFC were to begin simulcasting the Vancouver edition of ''Breakfast Television'' from CKVU-DT, starting in fall 2012 as the stations began carrying 90% of Citytv's morning and daytime programming from the CKVU schedule grid.
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does not produce any ''CityNews'' newscasts or ''Breakfast Television'' as it is licensed as an educational cable channel. The newly acquired
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, however, began producing ''CityNews'' under the ''Breakfast Television'' banner in the fall of 2013. On June 5, 2017, Rogers announced that it would return local early evening and late night newscasts to its Citytv owned-and-operated stations in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Winnipeg and, through an expansion of CJNT-DT's news operations, Montreal. The hour-long newscasts – which aired at 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. local time – premiered in Edmonton and Winnipeg on September 4, 2017, while the remainder of the announced markets will launch newscasts in early 2018. On July 12, 2018, it was announced that the new Calgary, Montreal, and Vancouver newscasts would premiere on September 3.


CityNews Radio

On December 3, 2020, at 10:00 a.m., CIWW in Ottawa rebranded itself as CityNews, and began simulcasting on sister station CJET-FM 101.1 ''(formerly CKBY-FM)'' while continuing to broadcast on AM 1310. In June 2021, Rogers announced that it would rebrand its five other all-news and news-talk radio stations under the CityNews brand. The rebranding is to take effect on October 18, 2021. Three of the stations – CFTR 680 Toronto, CFFR 660 Calgary, and CKWX 1130 Vancouver – are co-located with Citytv stations, while a fourth – CKGL 570 Kitchener – is located in a secondary market for Citytv Toronto. The move brought the CityNews brand to
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, where Rogers operates CJNI-FM 95.7 Halifax but does not operate a Citytv station.


Former programs


''CityNews International''

Soon after the cancellation of the local ''CityNews'' broadcasts in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg in 2008, a new half-hour program called ''CityNews International'' was launched. 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''. ''CityNews International'' aired at 6:30 and 11:30 p.m. in Calgary and Edmonton. In Winnipeg, it ran at 11:00 p.m., and in Vancouver at 6 and 11:35 p.m. In Toronto, Citytv aired the newscast at 11:35 p.m. ''CityNews International'' was canceled during the 2010 cuts. The title of the program remains in use on Citytv Toronto for the international news segments shown during its evening newscasts.


''Your City''

The replacement program in Calgary and Edmonton for the evening/late-evening program was a magazine type of show called ''Your City''. The show aired five nights a week at 6:00 p.m., with a repeat at 11:00 p.m. The format of the show consisted of a top story, a report about theatre or other cultural life, various restaurant and wine reviews and an assortment of other general interest stories.


''CityNews at Noon''

The noon newscast aired in Toronto, Calgary and Edmonton. It was hosted by Francis D'Souza and Laura DiBattista in Toronto, Asha Tomlinson in Edmonton and Aisling Slattery in Calgary.


''CityOnline''

A lunchtime half-hour talk show about Toronto news and current affairs aired weekdays at 12:30 p.m., following Toronto's City''News at Noon''. The show encouraged audience participation with its phone-in format. Viewers could also e-mail and vote on a daily phone poll. ''CityOnline'' was hosted by Kris Reyes. Previous hosts included
Ann Rohmer Ann Margaret Rohmer (born March 2, 1958) is a Canadian television personality known for her work on Citytv and CP24 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Early life and career Rohmer's father is Richard Rohmer, an officer with the Royal Canadian Air F ...
(CP24), Tracy Moore (''Cityline''), and Laura DiBattista (CBC Radio).


''Lunch Television''

''Lunch Television'' was hosted by Kyle Donaldson and Michel McDermott and aired in the Vancouver market. An earlier program, also titled ''Lunch Television'', aired on the original Toronto station during the 1990s.


Anchors and reporters


National

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- special correspondent


Citytv Toronto

Anchors * Dina Pugliese - ''Breakfast Television'' co-host (2006–present) * Roger Peterson - - ''Breakfast Television'' co-host * Tracy Moore - host of ''Cityline'' (broadcast across Canada) Weather * Frank Ferragine - weather specialist; ''Breakfast Television'' (weekday mornings) * Adam Stiles * Stella Acquisto * Natasha Ramsahai Sports (''CityNews'') * Lindsay Dunn Entertainment * Dina Pugliese - occasional entertainment reporter Reporters * Cynthia Mulligan - general assignment reporter * Pam Seatle - general assignment reporter * Mark McAllister- general assignment reporter


Citytv Winnipeg


Citytv Calgary

The only news now broadcast on this station is during its version of ''Breakfast Television''. News updates on ''Breakfast Television'' are still branded as ''CityNews''.


Notable current on-air staff

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- co-host; ''Breakfast Television'' Reporters * Jill Belland - ''Breakfast Television'' Live Eye reporter


Citytv Edmonton


Citytv Vancouver

The only news now broadcast on this station is during its version of ''Breakfast Television''. News updates on ''Breakfast Television'' are still branded as ''CityNews''.


CityNews Ottawa Radio

On December 3, 2020, at 10:00 AM, CIWW (1310 News) and CKBY-FM (Country 101.1) were rebranded as CityNews. Both stations broadcast identical content. Country 101.1 was rebranded to Country 92.3, as it was moved to CJET-FM.


Past presenters


Citytv Toronto

* Thalia Assuras (later moved to ABC and then CBS); now host of energyNOW! ( American Clean Skies Foundation) * Bill Cameron anchor; 1978–1983; (later moved to the
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); deceased * Lance Chilton - ''CityNews''/CP24 reporter (later anchor at
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in Barrie and real estate agent in Barrie area) * Jojo Chintoh - reporter and crime specialist; 1978-2010 (now President at El Mundo Habitat Development Corporation) *
Mark Dailey Mark Edward Dailey (August 1, 1953 – December 6, 2010) was an American-born Canadian television journalist and announcer. He was the host of 11 p.m. weeknight City''News'' newscasts in Toronto, Ontario, and a prominent continuity announcer voi ...
- ''CityNews Tonight'' anchor, crime specialist and continuity announcer known as "The Voice of Citytv"; 1979-2010 (died on December 6, 2010, due to prostate cancer) * Denise Donlon (later CEO of Sony Canada and executive director of CBC Radio's English-language services 2008–2011) *
Dwight Drummond Dwight Drummond (born September 22, 1968) is a Canadian television journalist who currently hosts ''Canada Tonight'' on CBC News Network. He previously worked as the anchor of ''CBC Toronto News with Dwight Drummond'' at CBLT, CBC Television's st ...
- ''CityNews at Five'' anchor and crime specialist (now 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m. anchor at CBC Toronto) * Merella Fernandez - anchor/reporter (now with CTV News in Toronto) * Mary Garofalo (later at
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in New York; now host of Global's '' 16x9 - The Bigger Picture'') *
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- reporter (now at
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) *
Melissa Grelo Melissa Grelo (born June 30, 1977) is a Canadian television personality, best known as a co-host of '' CP24 Breakfast''"CP24 opens a new front in breakfast TV wars". ''Toronto Star'', March 27, 2009. and the moderator of '' The Social''. Since Augu ...
- anchor/reporter (now co-host of ''CP24 Breakfast'' and weekday anchor at CP24) * Peter Gross - sports director from 1977 until the early 1980s and then humour reporter with "The World According to Gross" until 1986. At 680 News from the early 1990s to 2019 except for a brief stint back at CityNews from 2001 to 2003 as a weather reporter and reprieving "The World According to Gross". * Larysa Harapyn - entertainment anchor (laid off upon Rogers' elimination the City''News''' entertainment unit) * Lorne Honickman - ''CityPulse/CityNews'' legal specialist (was host of ''Legal Briefs'' on CP24 and Court TV Canada; practising lawyer) * Bob Hunter (founder of
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; later died after a prolonged battle with cancer on May 2, 2005) *
Avi Lewis Avram David "Avi" Lewis (born May 1967) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, former host of the Al Jazeera English show '' Fault Lines'' and former host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) current-affairs programs ''CounterSpin'' and ...
(1996-1998); (later with
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and then
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, now a documentary filmmaker and politician) *
Stephen Lewis Stephen Henry Lewis (born November 11, 1937) is a Canadian politician, public speaker, broadcaster, and diplomat. He was the leader of the social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party for most of the 1970s. During many of those years as lea ...
- commentator (later appointed as Canadian ambassador to the
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) * Amber MacArthur - new media specialist (now new media specialist for CP24) *
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- longtime former anchor in Toronto; 1977-2016 (now retired) *
Jim McKenny James Claude "Howie" McKenny (born December 1, 1946) is a Canadian retired broadcaster and retired professional ice hockey player. Playing as a defenceman, he appeared in 604 NHL regular season games between the Toronto Maple Leafs (594) and ...
- sports reporter/anchor in Toronto; 1979-2009 (now retired) * Tracy Moore - ''Breakfast Television''/''CityNews'' reporter (now host of Citytv's ''Cityline'') *
Anne Mroczkowski Anne Mroczkowski (born July 16, 1953) is a Canadian TV reporter and news anchor. She is the former co-anchor of '' Global News Hour'', along with Leslie Roberts, a job she started on June 1, 2010. Roberts announced Mroczkowski's departure on-air o ...
- ''CityNews at Six'' anchor (laid off in January 2010 and later co-anchor of Global Ontario's ''News Hour''); now media consultant and occasional actor *
Farah Nasser Farah Nasser is a Canadian journalist. In May 2015, she was named by Shaw Media as the co-anchor of Global Toronto's 5:30pm and 6pm newscast, alongside Alan Carter. Previous to this role, she was a reporter and anchor with CablePulse24 in Toronto i ...
- weekend anchor/substitute anchor/reporter (now anchor at CP24) *
David Onley David Charles Onley (born June 12, 1950) is a former Canadian journalist who served as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of OntarioLieutenant Governor of Ontario The lieutenant governor of Ontario (, in French: ''Lieutenant-gouverneur'' (if male) or ''Lieutenante-gouverneure'' (if female) ''de l'Ontario'') is the viceregal representative in Ontario of the , who operates distinctly within the province b ...
2007–2014) *
Dini Petty Dini Petty (born January 15, 1945) is a Canadian television and radio host. At 22, wearing a trademark pink jumpsuit and working for Toronto radio station CKEY, she became the first female traffic reporter to pilot her own helicopter. She clock ...
(later host of CTV's ''
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'' and guest host of ''Cityline'' 2010–2012) * Alex Pierson - reporter; 1999-2006 (now a talk show host at Global News Radio 640 in Toronto) * Beatrice Politi - ''CityNews''/A-Channel/CP24 Ottawa-based political specialist (now with Global Ontario) * Monita Rajpal, started as a reporter, then moved up to the anchor desk before moving to CNN International for 14 years; her last broadcast on CNN International was July 4, 2014. *
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(credited as J.D. Roberts) - entertainment reporter and weekend anchor (formerly co-host of CNN's ''
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''; now with
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as national correspondent in Atlanta) *
Ann Rohmer Ann Margaret Rohmer (born March 2, 1958) is a Canadian television personality known for her work on Citytv and CP24 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Early life and career Rohmer's father is Richard Rohmer, an officer with the Royal Canadian Air F ...
- ''CityNews'' anchor and host of ''Breakfast Television'' and ''CityOnline'' (now lead anchor at CP24) * Tonya Rouse - ''CityNews''/CP24 fitness specialist and host of CP24's ''Perfect Fit''. *
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- reporter (now with CTV News Channel) * John Saunders - sportscaster (was with
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for 30 years) - deceased August 10, 2016 * Dick Smyth - commentator in the 70s and 80s, later news director at 680 News - deceased March 6, 2021 *
Peter Silverman Peter Guy Silverman (5 July 1931 – 7 October 2021) was a Canadian broadcast journalist based in Toronto, Ontario. His television journalism career began in 1974 as a reporter for Global Television Network's first years. In 1981, he moved to C ...
- consumer specialist and host of ''Silverman Helps'' segment (dismissed June 2008; later at CFRB, deceased October 7, 2021) * Jennifer Valentyne - ''Breakfast Television'' Live Eye host; now with
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*
Andrew Krystal Andrew Krystal (died May 22, 2022) was a Canadian news reporter who worked for CityNews on Citytv Toronto. He had previously been a radio talk show host, his most recent stints being on the Rogers Communications news talk network in The Maritime ...
- general assignment reporter * Tom Hayes - reporter (now with
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in Toronto) * Francis D'Souza - Former anchor ''CityNews at Five'' (weeknights); also reporter. Now managing editor at
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* Kevin Frankish - ''Breakfast Television'' anchor/co-host (1991-2018), now teaches at Seneca College and produces special projects for City. *
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- former sports anchor/reporter. Now at
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*
Kathryn Humphreys Kathryn Humphreys (born 19 September 1970) is a Canadian former sports anchor for City''News'' ''at Five'', City''News' at Six'' and City''News'' ''Tonight''. She was previously with City''News Weekend'' which she joined in March 1997. Bor ...
- sports anchor/reporter (1997-2015), now a stay at home mom


Citytv Vancouver

* Fiona Forbes - ''Breakfast Television'' host (2002–2003; was at
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) * Beverley Mahood - host (2003–2005; now co-host of CMT Canada's flagship program, ''CMT Central'') *
Simi Sara Simi Sara is a Canadian radio and television broadcaster, currently a talk radio host on CKNW in Vancouver, British Columbia.Global News Radio 980 CKNW) * Jody Vance - Co-host/news anchor; ''Breakfast Television''


Citytv Calgary

* Ross Hull - ''Breakfast Television'' reporter (now weather anchor at
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)


See also

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Omni News Omni News (styled as OMNI News) is the name of local and national newscasts in various languages on the Omni Television system in Canada. National Omni Television produces daily newscasts in Italian, Punjabi, Arabic, Filipino, Cantonese, and Man ...
* Citynews (Italy)


References


External links

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IMDb: CityPulse News
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