I know.. 2 days in a row..  but it's another good story angle from Weisblott!
And it wouldn't surprise me in the least if Rogers walked away from news.  My nightlyt routine is City news @ 11 and CTV at 11.30, but the 11.30 is PVR'd on the off chance I miss them.  News is an expensive proposition to do properly, and a waste of time, reources and electricity if you don't. So you either give it your all, or walk away. I think the days of 'CityPulse' are behind us.  Especially when you consider during the winter they could regularly run western hockey games without having to piss off regular news viewers.

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Rogers Media has unveiled the 2015–16 schedule for City Television. But one thing is missing from the release: any reference to its nightly newscasts. 

The company has been actively cutting back on such programs—most recently replacing them with discussion-oriented shows on the multilingual Omni channels, and turning its Edmonton nightly news into the much cheaper Dinner Television chat show. 

Paying reporters to put a story together for a just a couple minutes of local airtime is a pricey proposition Rogers seems more than willing to get rid of where they can. So, despite unprecedented attention for reporter Shauna Hunt and the #FHRITP showdown, whether Toronto’s CityNews sticks around in its current format much longer remains to be seen. For now, anyway, Gord Martineau remains on his job of 38 years.
 

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