For decades CityTv perfected the newsroom as its set walking and talking and presenting from its own newsroom. This is the look that was copied globally. Even by Channel 5 in the UK. Well its finally over. They have shoved its presenters behind a desk effectively ending decades of a format they perfected. Sad day and another nail in the coffin of Citytv. www.bdpquadrangle.com
CityNews has a 24/7 streaming news channel after its first creation CP24 was stripped away when the CHUM sale happened. So you can watch the channel live. toronto.citynews.ca
Its sad to see this innovative and create station reduced to rubble over the years and is neither a shadow of its former self but disppear into the sameness of everything around it. Sad
Nothing tops this icon walk and top open with Gord Martineau. Goodness. So good and raw. So very City in its style. All gone now. www.youtube.com
They are trying to mimic CP24 in a way with the red and black, the overboard 3D and the tense music, but it pales compared to CP24 (BTW, that network is now available for streaming worldwide and without any subscription paywall on their website, which includes a HTML version of their L-bar, just to compare).
And CityNews Radio is no more… but only in Toronto. From CityNews 680, it is now 680 NewsRadio Toronto. The logo still uses the CityNews lettering, but now with the new branding. The stations still use jingles dated from 2019 (when still 680 News, with the green box logo), composed and produced by Austrian company Foster Kent in the basis of the jingles used by 1010 WINS from 2010 until 2017 (they even used the same software for the playout, Motionmixes).
I think dumping the CityNews680 brand IMO was stupid. It was brilliant move to unite 2 strong brands. But then biggest loss is the actually newsroom. Their tagline for ages was "the City is our newsroom". They connected their working newsroom to the city their serve. Now they entire City "brand" is effectively dismantled. Im sure its creator Moses Znaimer cringes when he sees what the channel has become.
Currently using black and red graphics colour scheme:
Global News
CP24
CBC news (w bits of yellow)
now CItyNews
They always prided themselves as the outlier and the outsider. The rough and tumble little engine that could...
An early version of CityPulse Vancouver in the signature Citytv style. youtu.be
(This post was last modified: 25-03-2024, 11:03 PM by mouseboy33.)
Interesting to see that CItyNoticias Bogota is still going strong using the City branding and retaining some semblance of the City-DNA. They are even still using the same theme music
Wasn't it not too long ago that City actually ditched studio presentation and the anchors - and went with a anchorless format and the reporters 'presenting their stories'? (or am I getting confused with other City stations?)
Judging by this, they've actually gone back to at least having traditional studio pres?
Infact, you could say City Toronto have gone back to a more traditional setup they had before making the move to 299 Queen Street West in 1987?
(26-03-2024, 12:34 AM)lookoutwales Wrote: Wasn't it not too long ago that City actually ditched studio presentation and the anchors - and went with a anchorless format and the reporters 'presenting their stories'? (or am I getting confused with other City stations?)
Yes, after the firing/retirement of longtime anchor Gord Martineau in 2016, City started making newscasts (mainly those in the evening) anchorless, partly to cut costs, partly to bring new, younger viewers watching through social media, and partly to "increased trust in the reporters and their journalism" (the formula began to be tested part-time from 2015, however). Other newscasts have retained anchors in a studio presentation, but these are now working under European-style rotations (with no main anchor). That same model (more successful on luring younger viewers on social than on linear) was exported to four other Citytv stations (Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal) between 2017 and 2018, but with the added disadvantage of repurposing segments from the Toronto newscast, plus centralized content produced from the Dundas Street newsroom.
(25-03-2024, 10:49 PM)mouseboy33 Wrote: I think dumping the CityNews680 brand IMO was stupid. It was brilliant move to unite 2 strong brands. But then biggest loss is the actually newsroom. Their tagline for ages was "the City is our newsroom". They connected their working newsroom to the city their serve. Now they entire City "brand" is effectively dismantled. Im sure its creator Moses Znaimer cringes when he sees what the channel has become.
Currently using black and red graphics colour scheme:
Global News
CP24
CBC news (w bits of yellow)
now CItyNews
Just preparing for the future merger of Global and City. Funnily, Rogers which owns City recently merged with Shaw which used to own Global. Currently the Shaw family still own the majority of Corus (Global) and a bit of Rogers.
(This post was last modified: 26-03-2024, 01:12 AM by Independent.)
(26-03-2024, 01:10 AM)Medianext.MX Wrote: Here's how the main Citytv newscasts look like... it all looks and smells like an improved version of Global News' existing look...
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Funnily, Rogers which owns City recently merged with Shaw which used to own Global. Currently the Shaw family still own the majority of Corus (Global) and a bit of Rogers.