Tuesday, October 23, 2007

City TV's new digs

CityTV has some new digs and it's going to be... the building formerly known as the Olympic Spirit "tourist attraction that nobody ever went to" tower/site at Yonge-Dundas Square. At least it'll be hard to miss.

When CTV bought the CHUM Media Group, part of the sale was the iconic City TV building at Queen & John. CTV had to give up CityTV as part of the sale (I believe it was a Canadian Radio Television Commission ruling, something about owning more than one local station). This led to CityTV needing both a new home and new owners. Rogers Media bought CityTV, and the stations founds itself a new home in the heart of Toronto.

As far as I know, MuchMusic and Bravo (owned by Rogers) will continue to be housed in the building formerly known as the CityTV studio building.

Update:

Rogers will also relocate its two OMNI Television operations to the new complex.

The sale of the five-station Citytv network was a CRTC condition of CTVglobemedia's $1.7-billion takeover of CHUM Limited. Rogers Media received approval late last month to buy the stations for $375 million, and now retains a binding agreement to purchase the Dundas Square site. CTVglobemedia will keep Much Music in place at the former CHUM-City building at 299 Queen West, where the music channel has been broadcasting since 1987.

Marc Lostracco - Torontoist

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