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CityNews is the name of Canadian local news shows broadcast on the Citytv system. The newscast was formerly known as CityPulse, but adopted its current name in August of 2005, concurrently with the expansion of Citytv from two to five stations.
On July 12, 2006, coincident with the announcement of Bell Globemedia's plans to take over CHUM Limited, all CityNews programs, with the exception of those on CITY-TV in Toronto, were immediately cancelled with 281 CHUM employees across the country being laid off. On CKAL-TV, CKEM-TV, and CHMI-TV, CityNews will be replaced with a new half-hour newsmagazine called In Your City , launching in the fall. CKVU-TV's newscast will not be replaced.
In 1987, Toronto's CityPulse was the world's first news show to abandon the traditional anchor desk in favour of anchors standing up and walking around inside the actual news room.
The show originated in 1977 in Toronto, and its format, pioneered by Moses Znaimer, has been copied by local news shows 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.
When the show made the transition to CityNews, it lost multiple features, such as the CityPulse Webtest, which had existed since the 1980s as a phone-in contest. The new format on CHMI, which previously was called A-Channel News, had lost nearly losing half its audience for the 6pm newscast before its cancellation.
Reporters
- Beatrice Politi, political specialist in Ottawa, Ontario
- Kathryn Humphreys, sports anchor
- Hugh Burrill, sports anchor
- Jim McKenny, sports anchor
- JoJo Chintoh, crime specialist
- Tonya Rouse, fitness specialist
- Dwight Drummond, news reporter
- Larysa Harapyn, entertainment reporter
- Liz West, entertainment reporter
Notable contributors
Notable contributors to the Toronto show included:
- Stephen Lewis who provided a commentary for the program until his appointment as Canadian ambassador to the United Nations
- John Roberts (credited as J.D. Roberts), an entertainment reporter and weekend anchor now with CNN
- Mary Garofalo, who later moved to WNYW-TV in New York
- Thalia Assuras, who later moved to ABC and then CBS
- Bill Cameron, who later moved to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Denise Donlon, later CEO of Sony Canada
- Avi Lewis, who later moved to CBC.
- Dini Petty, later a talk show host (The Dini Petty Show)
- John Saunders, a sportscaster who later moved to ESPN
- Russ Salzberg, a sportscaster who later moved to WWOR-TV in New York
CablePulse24
In 1998, Citytv created CablePulse 24 (commonly CP24), a Toronto cable TV station that is Canada's only 24-hour local news channel. It shares the same staff as the Citytv Toronto newscasts.
External links
"CityNews"