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City Television

City
Type Broadcast television network
Branding City
Country Canada
Availability National
parts of the northern United States via digital cable
Founded by Channel Seventy-Nine Ltd.
(Phyllis Switzer, Moses Znaimer, Jerry Grafstein and Edgar Cowan, among others)
Slogan Everywhere!
Owner Rogers Media
Key people
Guy Laurence - Rogers President & CEO
Rick Brace - President of Media Business Unit, Rogers Media
Scott Moore - Senior Vice President, Sportsnet and NHL Network, Rogers Media
Launch date
September 28, 1972 (First aired)
July 22, 2002
(first national expansion)
February 4, 2013
(current national footprint)
Former names
Citytv (1972–2012)
Sister channels
Omni Television
Sportsnet
G4
OLN
FX
FXX
Viceland
The Shopping Channel
WWE Network
Official website
www.citytv.com

City (formerly known as Citytv) is a Canadian television network owned by the Rogers Media subsidiary of Rogers Communications. The network consists of six owned-and-operated (O&O) television stations located in the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver, a cable-only service that serves the province of Saskatchewan, and three independently owned affiliates serving smaller cities in Alberta and British Columbia.

The Citytv brand originated from its namesake, CITY-TV in Toronto, a station which became known for an intensely local format based on newscasts aimed at younger viewers, nightly movies, and music and cultural programming. The Citytv brand first expanded with CHUM Limited's acquisition of former Global O&O CKVU-TV in Vancouver, followed by its purchase of Craig Media's stations and the re-branding of its A-Channel system in Central Canada as Citytv in August 2005. CHUM Limited was acquired by CTVglobemedia (now Bell Media) in 2007; to comply with Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) ownership limits, the Citytv stations were sold to Rogers. The network grew through further affiliations with three Jim Pattison Group-owned stations, along with Rogers' acquisition of SCN and Montreal's CJNT-DT.


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