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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Media |
| Genre | News |
| Founded | September 28, 1975 (CityPulse) August 2, 2005 (CityNews) |
| Headquarters | , Canada |
Area served | National, Regional |
Key people | Tony Staffieri - Rogers Communications Interim President & CEO Jordan Banks - President of Rogers Sports & Media |
Production output | Television, radio, and internet news |
| Owner | Rogers Sports & Media (Rogers Communications) |
| Parent | Citytv |
| Website | www |
CityNews is the title of news and current affairs programming on Rogers Sports & Media's Citytv network in Canada. The newscast division was founded on September 28, 1975 as CityPulse as a standalone local newscast on the network's Toronto station owned by CHUM Limited. Through the acquisitions of the Edmonton, Winnipeg and Calgary A-Channel stations in 2004, it was relaunched under the CityNews brand on August 2, 2005 and later expanded to Montreal in 2012. The remaining Citytv stations airs the news headlines segments during each station's Breakfast Television morning show.
Before the 2017–2018 relaunch of CityNews nationally, Citytv stations outside Toronto had their midday and evening news programs cancelled in 2006, and the remaining news programming on these stations (such as the nationally-broadcast CityNews International) was cancelled in early 2010.[1][2]
After a soft launch in 2020 via CIWW/CJET-FM Ottawa,[3] in June 2021 Rogers extended the CityNews branding to its news radio stations.[4]
- ^ Layoffs, Cancelled Shows At Citytv Archived 2010-01-22 at the Wayback Machine Citynews.ca, published January 19, 2010.
- ^ Citytv Restructures Television Operations To Improve Business and Better Serve Audiences Rogers Media press release via CNW Media group, January 19, 2010
- ^ Connie Thiessen, "Rogers rebrands Ottawa news/talk in move to FM simulcast, scraps JACK FM". Broadcast Dialogue, December 3, 2020.
- ^ Connie Thiessen, "Rogers news radio stations announce ‘CityNews’ rebrand date". Broadcast Dialogue, September 1, 2021. As of now it is considered a primarily junior television network with low viewership