Citytv announced today a restructuring of its television operations in order to focus on areas of the business that deliver the best results and better serve changing audience patterns.
“Today’s changes, although difficult, are necessary to align our operations with the economic and regulatory realities of our industry,” says Leslie Sole, CEO, Rogers Media Television. “We are improving our core business by tightening our operations and concentrating on the strengths of our top performing local programs.”
Citytv will continue to produce Breakfast Television and CityLine for all markets and CityNews at Six and CityNews Tonight in Toronto. Shifting viewer patterns coupled with the overall state of the economy required the company to rethink its programming lineup.
“We believe in local television,” commented Jamie Haggarty, EVP Television Operations, Rogers Media Television. “We remain committed to innovation and development of our stations to increase our impact on our local markets. We will focus on quality over quantity.”
Editor’s Note: Additional information about the cut:
– Breakfast Televsion in Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg will run for three hours instead of four.
– CityNews at Noon canceled
– CityNews at Five canceled
– CityNews International canceled
– Cityt News List canceled
– CityNews Weekend (6pm and 11pm editions) canceled
– Lunch Television canceled
– The City Show canceled
– Your City canceled
– 6pm newscast in Edmonton, Calgary and Edmonton
– 60 people were fired (6% of Citytv’s workforce)
