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CityNews Channel

On May 30, 2011, Rogers Media announced plans to launch a digital cable specialty channel licensed as a Category B service with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission called CityNews Channel, a 24-hour news network based in Toronto that would bring together resources from a number of Rogers-owned news and media properties, including Citytv Toronto, 680 News radio, and Maclean's magazine. The channel features "an enriched and interactive screen format," likely similar to that of Bell Media's CP24, the channel's main competitor.

CityNews Channel launched on October 3, 2011, using the same news wheel format as 680News, with traffic and weather reports on the :1s, sports news at :15 and :45 and business news at :26 and :56 past the hour. The channel's anchors are rotated depending on the time period. Rolling news programming airs weekdays from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., weekends from 7 a.m.-6 p.m. and nightly from 7-11 p.m. ET; all Citytv Toronto news programming is simulcast on the channel (including weekday morning news/talk program Breakfast Television and nightly 11 p.m. newscast CityNews Tonight, which both feature an additional half-hour seen exclusively on CityNews Channel); an audio simulcast of 680News featuring live traffic camera feeds throughout Toronto also runs from midnight-5:30 a.m. weeknights and midnight-7 a.m. weekends.

Since April 14, 2012, Citytv Toronto runs a simulcast of CityNews Channel's weekend morning news programming every Saturday morning from 7-8 a.m. and Sunday mornings from 7-9 a.m.