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Citytv Announces Location For New Home: Right In The Heart Of Toronto
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| Stilez |
| quote: | Goodbye Queen St. West. Hello Yonge-Dundas Square. After years of being a fixture on the Queen St. strip, Citytv is moving to a brand new home. And if our old location was the once up-and-coming soul of the city, our new one is right in its heart.
Rogers Media, the new owner of the Citytv properties across the country, has been looking for the perfect place to house the little station that could. And it's more than found it at the building that's home to the Olympic Spirit. The tower on the corner of Victoria and Dundas was built to give tourists and residents a chance to see what it's like to participate in the Olympic Games.
But now you've got a new event that will run Rings around it - the opportunity to one day take a tour of the station that made its name as the Voice, Spirit and Eyes of Toronto. And given what an amazing location it is - on Dundas Square - that's going to continue. Rogers has vowed to restore Citytv to its famous lustre, as the place that allows you to interact with a TV station, a unique experience that's been copied by others across the planet.
And we won't be going there alone. Our new sister stations, OMNI 1 And 2 will be joining us in the new space.
"The space is a little over 43,000 square feet and will represent the ongoing commitment of Citytv and OMNI TV to the core of Toronto and the urban landmark that our stations have represented for so many years," explains Rogers Media CEO of Television Leslie Sole in a memo to employees. "I have toured the location and it will become a powerful television site in the Dundas Square complex. This space will take some planning and a great deal of organization but we will create a home that will be second to none."
Not to mention a station that will be that, too. It's going to be a while before the official move takes place. But given Citytv's historic involvement of letting viewers see what's behind the making of television, you can be sure to see updates on the progress of the new H.Q. as it nears completion. Because while it's your city, it's always been your City. And no matter where we go, that will never change. |
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Sad to see them leave that legendary bldg at Queen & John, but cool that they'll be right at the MAIN corner of Tsnot. I always wondered what the purpose of that bldg was in the first place. We've never had an Olympics here, and quite possibly won't anytime soon. |
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| chinamon |
| i heard swamper is gonna buy the old citytv building and move TA operations there. |
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| kotsy |
That's really cool. Although I've grown attached to visiting the Chum City building on Queen since I was a wee lad.
I'm guessing MuchMusic etc is staying behind? |
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| smuncky |
| quote: | Originally posted by kotsy
I'm guessing MuchMusic etc is staying behind? |
| quote: | Originally posted by chinamon
i heard swamper is gonna buy the old citytv building and move TA operations there. |
so i say no, MM is going some place else. |
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| sa2go |
| quote: | Originally posted by smuncky
so i say no, MM is going some place else. |
Ahhh who really cares about Much Music anymore anyway? The old school 90's Much was great it had style and wasn't filled with the crap now a days. |
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| kotsy |
| quote: | Originally posted by sa2go
Ahhh who really cares about Much Music anymore anyway? The old school 90's Much was great it had style and wasn't filled with the crap now a days. |
Couldn't agree more.
I stopped watching when they changed from  to  . That is definitely when they went downhill. |
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| jchung52 |
| ELECTRIC CIRCUSSSSSSSSS |
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| sa2go |
| quote: | Originally posted by jchung52
ELECTRIC CIRCUSSSSSSSSS |
I remember watching Electric Circus when I was a younger and was just like.......wtf is this? |
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| r5a |
| I miss EC, very much. |
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| Playa24_7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by sa2go
I remember watching Electric Circus when I was a younger and was just like.......wtf is this? |
LOL! I remember watching it in elementary school! Good times lol |
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| Dr. DAS |
| quote: | Originally posted by kotsy
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FTW!!!!
I couldn't think of a better location for CityTV. The ChumCity building is an icon and it's sad to see them move (especially at the behest of ing Ted Rogers)but if you're going to go, this is the place.
Once the old olympic spirit has been refit as a TV studio, it will provide a great dynamic to BT, etc... and state-of-the-art facilities. And, with the renovation of the square and the new AMC complex, they are setting themselves up to continue into a new era as a Toronto institution. I say well done, Moses. |
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| NuERA |
| times square mtv wannabes |
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