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Citytv

Broadcasting network
TypeBroadcast television system
CountryCanada
AvailabilitySemi-national (urban Ontario and Alberta, much of B.C. and Manitoba)
parts of the northern U.S. via digital cable
SloganEverywhere!
OwnerRogers Broadcasting Ltd.
Key peopleLeslie Sole - CEO of Rogers Media Television
Launch dateSeptember 28, 1972 (independent)
July 22, 2002 (launch of the Citytv system)

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Citytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division. The system currently consists of five owned and operated television stations located in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver, as well as three affiliates owned by the Jim Pattison Group located in smaller cities in Alberta and B.C. With the closure of Canwest's E! in 2009, Citytv is now Canada's most widely-available over-the-air television service without "network" status. The Citytv brand has also been licensed to television stations outside of Canada.

Citytv stations originally had an intensely-local format based on newscasts aimed at younger viewers, nightly movies, and music and cultural programming. Moses Znaimer, who developed the original format, once described the system's philosophy by saying, "It's not the show, it's the flow".


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