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we know things change. particularly in canada money is tight. I think one think i miss are the channels that used to have a sense of place or a physical location that sometimes was just as famous as its output. I think as a kid we all remember the Nickelodeon studios in Florida, MTV in Times Square, CNN Centre in Atlanta and BBC Television Centre.
Well in Canada that televised sense of place was the ChumCity Building. When Citytv got kicked out and MuchMusic retracted to virtually nothing. Speakers Corner was shut down. The Electric Circus no longer holding its Friday night televised dance party that took over the entire facade of the ChumCity building with dancers spilling out onto the pavement and dancing with the public. And CityPulse (CItyNews) and CP24 being the voice of the entire GTA every 30 minutes. It feels weird. Inevitable. But weird. The corner of Queen and John was the epicentre of everything that was cool amazing. And for decades the most amazing television on the planet was dreamed up and created from that building. All of it from a local tv station just for Toronto, not a big national network. Raw, young and fast

Its sad that the phrase : From 299 Queen Street West this is Toronto's Breaking News CP24 wont exist ever again. Even if they leave the old CityPulse news truck bursting out the side of the building...its never going to be the same.

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This makes me pretty sad. When I was 11 I basically fell in love with TV thanks to the CHUM building. I appeared on Speakers Corner and took part in a studio audience show on Much Music. It was a dream come true for a TV pres fan. The entire Much show was on the street with seating inside the opened window area. We’re talking live performances, presenters wandering around and people everywhere in the glorious sunshine. For a kid, it was epic!