The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / CITY on the Move

**Posted by yyzradioveteran** March 14, 2025 7:47 am

They have moved in to 333 Bloor, not 1 Mt. Pleasant...Breakfast Television and News Channel studios are on the ground floor with the Sportsnet studios, and office space is across from the radio studios on the second floor.

**Posted by Shorty Wave** March 14, 2025 7:53 am

Aytononline wrote:
I might be showing my age here, but the whole point and what made City Tv different was the back ground was the street where you never knew what was going to happen behind you while you were live on air. Moving to Dundas square they were able to keep some of this. Now they could be on any floor, including the basement with just a green screen behind them.
This might be cost effective but it's no longer City TV.

Aytononline, the Citytv brand was pretty much killed by Rogers when then bought the station. They axed most of the original programming like Speakers Corner etc., fired staff like crazy, including on-air talent, and killed the vibrant environment that once made the channel what it was. Remaining staff were in constant fear of being fired and it became a pretty crappy place to work. I was laid off and hired back in weeks, guess they were short staffed, which was good for me at the time. Hated working for Rogers though, they didn’t really “get” TV, just liked the idea of being a player I think. They’re rumoured to be looking for a buyer for the station, good luck in this day and age!

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**Posted by RadioActive** March 14, 2025 8:58 am

yyzradioveteran wrote:
They have moved in to 333 Bloor, not 1 Mt. Pleasant...Breakfast Television and News Channel studios are on the ground floor with the Sportsnet studios, and office space is across from the radio studios on the second floor.

I spoke to an old friend who currently works in the City newsroom and he was definitive that the move was to 1 Mt. Pleasant next week. I hope you're wrong or he'll be going to the wrong address!

**Posted by RadioAaron** March 14, 2025 9:05 am

It amounts to the same thing.

Maybe the BT set will be at 333 for proximity to CHFI, while the news operation will be at OMP

**Posted by The Weed** March 14, 2025 9:09 am

I've been told the BT set is on the first floor of OMP.

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**Posted by KenkuKwanchi** March 15, 2025 12:06 am

RadioActive wrote:
I was just thinking back to the very beginning. How many times has City TV moved itself? It started in 1972 at 99 Queen St. E. That led to what employees there always called "The New Building" at 299 Queen St. W. They used to refer to it as the "Building That Shoots Itself," to which I always wanted to add, "In The Foot."

Then it was on to Yonge & Dundas, a site Gord Martineau suggested after the craziness with Bell buying City, and being forced by the CRTC to sell it to Rogers, leaving City no choice but to get out of 299. have sets.

After the move to Yonge and Dundas. The set for BT was on the ground floor. Eventually they moved up to one of the floors. Unsure why they decided to relocate out of ground floor.

**Posted by Shorty Wave** March 15, 2025 7:56 am

KenkuKwanchi wrote:
RadioActive wrote:
I was just thinking back to the very beginning. How many times has City TV moved itself? It started in 1972 at 99 Queen St. E. That led to what employees there always called "The New Building" at 299 Queen St. W. They used to refer to it as the "Building That Shoots Itself," to which I always wanted to add, "In The Foot."

Then it was on to Yonge & Dundas, a site Gord Martineau suggested after the craziness with Bell buying City, and being forced by the CRTC to sell it to Rogers, leaving City no choice but to get out of 299. have sets.
After the move to Yonge and Dundas. The set for BT was on the ground floor. Eventually they moved up to one of the floors. Unsure why they decided to relocate out of ground floor.

When Citytv left 299 Queen after Rogers bought them, they split the station up. City News, BT and Ciyline were based out of Yonge & Dundas, while marketing, sales, creative services etc were moved to Lakeshore and Bathurst, mostly in the basement, which was a rude awakening! The only two benefits to the Lakeshore location was that it was fairly easy to get to, and they had a huge parking lot, which of course Rogers attempted to charge staff to park in, the push back made them stop, at least at the time.

Citytv’s philosophy back in the day was to be connected to its viewers, thus the street front studios. Rogers never quite got that.

**Posted by Hansa** March 15, 2025 3:38 pm

With Rogers consolidating operations at the Rogers Building I'm wondering what recollections people have of other Rogers addresses? I recall CFTR/CHFI (and I think Rogers Cable) were at 25 Adelaide for years, moving there after a fire at 13 Adelaide. Rogers Cable also had a building on York Mills where I believe Cable 10 had a studio.

**Posted by betaylored** March 15, 2025 9:58 pm

https://youtu.be/yJQlmwZ-Dz8?si=TaAP1Otu517KduS2

a nice feature they pulled together on CityNews moving from Yonge and Dundas, lots of good moments and memories and at the end they had clips of several now departed and still very missed on-air people.

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**Posted by Radiowiz** March 15, 2025 10:16 pm

Hansa wrote:
With Rogers consolidating operations at the Rogers Building I'm wondering what recollections people have of other Rogers addresses? I recall CFTR/CHFI (and I think Rogers Cable) were at 25 Adelaide for years, moving there after a fire at 13 Adelaide. Rogers Cable also had a building on York Mills where I believe Cable 10 had a studio.

Go back far enough and CFTR was @ 17 Victoria street.

**Posted by RadioActive** March 17, 2025 4:44 pm

Broadcast Dialogue weighs in:

Citytv, OMNI now broadcasting from Rogers’ Bloor St. campus

**Posted by RadioActive** March 17, 2025 7:08 pm

Having watched part of their 6 PM newscast, the set looks pretty much the same to me.

Although to be honest, I rarely watch CityNews so there may be changes I would not have been aware of.

**Posted by mace** March 18, 2025 12:03 am

RadioActive wrote:
Having watched part of their 6 PM newscast, the set looks pretty much the same to me.

Although to be honest, I rarely watch CityNews so there may be changes I would not have been aware of.

I am still loyal to CTVNEWS@6 even though each night I wonder will there or won't there be a legitimate weather presenter.

**Posted by Listener** March 18, 2025 5:56 am

I just heard that Dina Pugliese is now back on Breakfast Television.