Citytv Toronto
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Toronto, Ontario Canada |
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| Branding | City Toronto or City (general) CityNews (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
Everywhere! (general) Toronto's News (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 44 (UHF) Virtual: 57 () |
| Subchannels | 57.1 City |
| Translators | see below |
| Affiliations | City (O&O; 1972–present) |
| Owner |
Rogers Media (Rogers Media, Inc.) |
| First air date | September 28, 1972 |
| Call letters' meaning | CITY |
| Sister station(s) |
TV: CFMT-DT, CJMT-DT Radio: CFTR, CHFI-FM, CJCL, CKIS-FM |
| Former callsigns | CITY-TV (1972–2011) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 79 (UHF, 1972–1983) 57 (UHF, 1983–2011) Digital: 53 (UHF, 2003–2011) |
| Transmitter power | 21 kW |
| Height | 501.4 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°38′33″N 79°23′14″W / 43.64250°N 79.38722°W |
| Licensing authority | CRTC |
| Website | www |
CITY-DT, virtual channel 57 (UHF digital channel 44), is a City owned-and-operated television station located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station is owned by Rogers Media as part of a triplestick (the only conventional television triplestick operated by the company) with Omni Television stations CFMT-DT (channel 47) and CJMT-DT (channel 40). The three stations share studio facilities located at 33 Dundas Street East on Yonge-Dundas Square in Downtown Toronto; CITY maintains transmitter facilities located atop the CN Tower in Downtown Toronto.
The station first broadcast on September 28, 1972 by a consortium led by Phyllis Switzer, Moses Znaimer, Jerry Grafstein and Edgar Cowan, as CITY-TV, branded on-air as Citytv. In 1981, the station was sold to CHUM Limited, who retained Znaimer as an executive. 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. After having used 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. In 2006, CTVglobemedia announced its intent to acquire CHUM Limited, but was required to divest stations due to conflicts with CTV stations it already owned in Citytv's markets. CTV chose to keep the stations of CHUM's secondary A-Channel system, as well as CITY-TV's sister news channel CP24, but divested CITY-TV and its sister stations to Rogers Media. Under Rogers ownership, CITY's programming became more conventional in nature.
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