Capricasix wrote:

pinto wrote:

Have the news anchor or Devo or Tim do the weather and save the salary? 

We see how well that works on CTV News

I can see Natasha Ramsahai moving to mornings and the evening weather be rotated amongst the existing City/680 weather crew or dubbed voiceovers. It would be nice to see Adam Stiles return.

I remember reading a post and some debate on whether the hits involving Dina are pre-recorded. I watched this morning, and I believe they are. Earlier in the show, Tim wished his daughter a happy birthday during the live hit and during the first segment involving Dina, Tim admitted that he forgot it was his daughter's birthday this weekend and apologized profusely and wished her happy birthday again.

Also, when the show transitioned from news to the first segment, Dina generically stated "Thank you for that" as part of the intro and not acknowledging the actual person.

If these are pre-recorded, the hosts do a pretty good job at hiding it given that Tim and Devo wore the same outfits as the pre-recorded material.

Shorty Wave wrote:

I think Rogers Media is in a bit of a spot these days as they totally screwed their poaching of HGTV and Food Network from Corus. They assumed that these channels would keep their spots on cable etc. but that wasn’t the case. The only place you can watch these channels is on Rogers Ignite and one other small market cable company, somewhere.

As a result, they are not getting the ad revenue projected, or the subscription bucks, so they’re not making the money they forecasted, and they paid a fair chunk to WBD for these rights, thus the layoffs. Allegedly there’s more to come, stay tuned.

I think with whatever "re launch" that Rogers does with BT, they might start broadcasting it from their 1 Mount Pleasant studios. I noticed on CityNews broadcasts that they have reverted to having the newsroom as their backdrop instead of the updated one with panels and screens that they introduced a short time ago. It's possible they are starting to move equipment and prep. the new studio?
 

My guess is Pooja and Gurdeep moving to BT and Rick Campanelli taking over the morning spot at CHFI. Or Rick becoming one of the co-hosts at BT. Possible stretch in my assumption that Dina also makes a return.

ED1 wrote:

CityNews 24/7 channel's new look... with a new studio 

 

The Rogers/Shaw money must've kicked in. CityNews Vancouver also has a set now AND its own 24/7 streaming channel.

https://twitter.com/AdrienneKS/status/1772290010693197880?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Are they still reporting out of Yonge Dundas? The set looks like it may now be at One Mount Pleasant.

R-S-T-L-N-E wrote:

Radiowiz wrote:

       Corus could easily move into the former City/Omni building @ Yonge & Dundas

Not easily if a long-term lease exists on the waterfront complex

Is City/Omni actually moving or is this a rumour?

Brad wrote:

I agree, you really can't listen to Sandra that long without deciding you can drive with the radio off.

They haven't hosted together is a while. The last two weeks of December, it was Rick and Ed the Sock. Before that Sandra was solo. Months before that she was solo, but Rick returned saying they had a family vacation in Miami I believe.

Was he fired though? He has updated his instragram bio and removed references to Z103.5. One of his latest videos was him, Ed, and someone else pumping their fists to the music in the studio, but that video has been deleted. Twitter bio still says he works there, but he hasn't posted on there since September.

Maybe Sandra and Rick just didn't jive together, and one of them had to go.
 

A few people asked on an IG post where he was and he confirmed that he was no longer with Z because the early mornings were getting to him. Whether this is true or not, I’m not too sure. It does seem odd that there was no announcement or send off prior to his departure. Based on the series of events from December, I’m going to speculate that Sandra and Rick didn’t get along and a decision was made to let Rick go.

RadioActive wrote:

So the big question now is - what happens to Ms. LaFlamme? She may do a recap for a day on City and then what? They just don't really have a place for her and I can only assume she did this to increase her profile, as well as wanting to cover one of the biggest stories in decades. 

Someone here has suggested Global National. I'm not sure - they have Dawna Friesen and they just hired Farah Nasser. What would LaFlamme do? 

CBC is a possibility, although I wonder if someone who is so fiercely independent on how things are done would react under their stricter rules. 

So who's left? Certainly she's not going back to CTV anytime soon. CNN? CNBC? Would a U.S. network want her and if so, would she be willing to go down there? I'm not convinced that will happen. 

Perhaps a columnist in one of the Toronto papers? But would that satisfy her? She doesn't strike me as someone who would be happy with a podcast, but that seems to be the direction many former broadcasters are going. 

This is one to watch and I suspect that we have not seen the last of her. Just where and why is another story. 

Even if there were an opening at City, I doubt Lisa would be a good fit for the network. Not a fault of her or City's own, it's just a very different network from CTV where she wouldn't get the tabloid style line of questioning that she did during her BT hits (i.e. What do people waiting in line do if they have to use the washroom?) Imagine Lisa anchoring the 5/6pm newscast with Richard Southern's "interesting news stories of the day"... I don't see it.
 

Radiowiz wrote:

Did City TV simply pick up the BBC feed? I was hearing British sounding announcers in the 5am hour and not anyone potentially from City TV or BT or whatever...

No, they have British/royal experts as part of the panel.

BT was live in Niagara Falls for Friday’s show and it looked to be a dismal turnout for their live audience.

PwrSurge wrote:

Was also posted on Rick Campanelli's Instagram page at around the same time https://www.instagram.com/p/CWi9urApkjw/



For those of you who don't remember, yes we are talking about Rick "the Temp" Campanelli circa MuchMusic (1994-2005) and who also subsequently worked as a co-host at ET Canada until 2017.

He also had brief exposure to radio back in 2016 as one of the co-hosts to CFNY's morning show alongside Fred and Mel.
 

It’s interesting because I remember Rick briefly going back to City in 2019, but never heard about his whereabouts or what happened after then.

Source:  https://youtu.be/laKPv0PgePw

Noticed that this is the second week that Dina has not been on BT with no mention of her whereabouts. Her last posts on social are from October 8.

I wondered why Rogers all of a sudden introduced a “National” broadcast hour at the start of COVID, now we know why. It will probably be operated in the same way as it did during the CHUM days where “The New” (now CTV 2) stations broadcasted the BT Toronto feed and would break to the local stations for news and traffic updates.

What’s interesting is that BT is now going back to all 6 markets, so I suspect that the local CityNews broadcasts outside of Toronto will eventually be cut. At what point does Rogers just pull out of the conventional TV market? It doesn’t make them money and it seems more effort than what they’re getting out of it.

Time will tell.

RadioActive wrote:

It's a good choice, given Roger's personality and the fact that his role on the late news was diminishing. I know Roger (he's the only person I've ever met who once lived on a boat) and he's a great guy. I wish him luck, especially with the hours. 

Breakfast Television names Roger Petersen as new co-host

(Note: Above link is to a Toronto Star article, so if you've already used your monthly 5, don't click it.) 

The City TV press release notes that weekend weather person Stella Acquisto is also joining the show.

 
So, Stella Acquisto is now the “community correspondent”? Sounds to me like a live-eye host.

Radiowiz wrote:

At least they HAVE a sportscaster!! Unlike Citynews @11.  

 

 
But yet they're bringing CityNews casts to all their stations.