OverDrive works just fine. When a staff wants to make a point, suddenly it doesn't. I don't blame them, necessarily. 

No such issues on CTV Montreal or CTV Ottawa though.

Exercise your rights as a consumer and shop elsewhere. CTV doesn't deserve your loyalty, RA.

I tend to watch Global because I find Nathan Downer lives up to his surname and I'm eternally hopeful that Storm the Weather Dog will one day lift a leg on camera.

Gone are the days that City TV attracted my attention at 6PM. They used to have a very odd newscast back in the days when Moses Znaimer owned the place. It wasn't that it was always professional, and some of the on-air people were just bizarre. (Like Bob Hunter appearing in his housecoat or Peter Silverman tussling with some dishonest merchant.)

You just never knew what you would see. Now that Rogers owns it, they took all of the strangeness out that made it special. What's left is the same blandness you can get anywhere and it's not even as good as some of the others. What a shame.

Rogers is capable of putting on a good show when it wants to. But by taking away the quirkiness of the place and making it just like every other newscast, there's no real reason to watch it anymore. And I don't. 

The amazing thing about City TV was how incredible their branding was back then. For years and years after CP24 was taken over by Bell, I still heard some people who were not in the industry talking about how City owned it.

And that Mark Dailey intoned "Everywhere" was impossible to escape.

And by the way, I think I've said this before, but the name no longer really makes sense. "CP24" stood for CablePulse 24, after the CityPulse newscast that ran for so long on City. What it actually means now is anyone's guess, although no one ever asks anymore. But it was tied into the original "Pulse" theme when it first started on cable. 

The way they were:

RadioActive wrote:

Gone are the days that City TV attracted my attention at 6PM. They used to have a very odd newscast back in the days when Moses Znaimer owned the place. It wasn't that it was always professional, and some of the on-air people were just bizarre. (Like Bob Hunter appearing in his housecoat or Peter Silverman tussling with some dishonest merchant.)

You just never knew what you would see. Now that Rogers owns it, they took all of the strangeness out that made it special. What's left is the same blandness you can get anywhere and it's not even as good as some of the others. What a shame.

Rogers is capable of putting on a good show when it wants to. But by taking away the quirkiness of the place and making it just like every other newscast, there's no real reason to watch it anymore. And I don't. 

Bang on post RA. Citytv’s newscast, CityPulse, was indeed an odd duck and that’s what made it interesting and unique, and occasionally did well in the ratings! I was working for Citytv when Rogers took over and it was a rude awakening to say the least.

Rogers had a meet and greet for us Citytv folks and I was introduced to Ted Rogers, who told me and my creative director that his plans for City was a superstation, like TBS, broadcasting across Canada. He was excited about acquiring Citytv and was actually very friendly and chatty! After he passed, that all went out the window, like many things. They cut staff and programming, like Speakers Corner and seemed to not really know how to run a TV station. They also seemed to resent the City staff and didn’t hold back, we were like the poor cousins.

Let’s face it, Rogers is bland especially in the broadcasting world, the odd Sportsnet promo aside, and they sucked the life out of Citytv and made it vanilla tv, desperately dull! Oh to hear Mark Dailey’s “ Everywhere!” again.

Is it normal practice for media to create a hyperbolic headline to exaggerate the content of the artiicle?

dis·as·ter
/dəˈzastər/
noun
a sudden event, such as an accident or a natural catastrophe, that causes great damage or loss of life.

Do any of the above define the happening in this article?

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and occasionally did well in the ratings!