CityNews
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| Industry | Media |
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| Genre | News |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Area served
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National, Regional |
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Key people
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Rick Brace - President, Media Business Unit |
| Owner | Rogers Media |
| Website | www |
| CityNews | |
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| Genre | News |
| Starring | Various anchors |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Toronto, Ontario |
| Release | |
| Original network | CITY-DT |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| External links | |
| Website | |
CityNews (corporately styled CityNews) is the title of news and current affairs programming on the City television network in Canada. It is broadcast as a local newscast in its own right on the network's Toronto station CITY-DT, while on the remaining City stations it airs only as the news headlines segment during each station's Breakfast Television morning show.
Although City stations outside Toronto have aired local news programs in the past, most of these programs were cancelled in 2006, with the remaining news programming on these stations (such as the nationally-broadcast CityNews International) cancelled in early 2010.
The newscast was broadcast in Toronto as CityPulse for the first time as a pilot episode on September 28, 1975, and as a second pilot episode on September 12, 1976. The first episode of CityPulse aired on September 12, 1977. On August 1, 2005, the last newscast to use the CityPulse title aired and it was renamed CityNews the next day. While the station often claims that it was the "first" news show to abandon the traditional anchor desk, this was not true, as CBS News 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.
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 also been duplicated by other television stations owned by CHUM Limited as well, and its format has been licensed to several television stations around the world, such as Citytv Barcelona and Citytv Bogotá.
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 and Dini Petty for much of the years from 1980 to 1987. Weather presenters in that era include CHUM Radio veteran Jay Nelson, Brian Hill, Greg Rist, and David Onley. Sports anchors included Jim McKenny, Russ Salzberg, John Saunders, Debbie Van Kiekebelt, and Ann Rohmer.
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