City (television network)
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| Type | Broadcast television network |
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| 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 |
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Key people
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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 |
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Launch date
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September 28, 1972 (First aired) July 22, 2002 (first national expansion) February 4, 2013 (current national footprint) |
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Former names
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Citytv (1972–2012) |
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Sister channels
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Omni Television Sportsnet G4 OLN FX FXX Viceland The Shopping Channel WWE Network |
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Official website
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www |
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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