Mark Dailey started working for Citytv in 1979. Most of Torontoist’s readers have known him as the “voice of City” for their entire lives, as has this writer. His death today at the age of fifty-seven due to complications from kidney cancer leaves a deep void in Toronto’s media landscape. Mark Dailey was the Voice. [...]

Every Saturday at noon, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. Cover of Toronto Illustrated 1893 (Toronto: Consolidated Illustrating, 1893). “Towering triumphantly on the northern shore of the majestic Lake Ontario, Toronto…presents in her commercial history a record of advancement, an epitome [...]

1985 opening for CityPulse. The headline on John Doyle’s television column in this morning’s Globe and Mail sums it up perfectly: “Cuts to CITY an evisceration of an icon.” This week’s hacking of the news division and jettisoning of several long-time on-air faces confirms the dragged-out decline of what was one of Toronto’s most diverse [...]

Anne Mroczkowski’s bowdlerization from CityNews’ website, a change made today and first caught by Mondoville. Rogers Media issued a press release earlier this afternoon announcing that they are in the process of restructuring Citytv’s television operations―and as we all know, “restructuring” is nothing more than the preferred euphemism for our favourite media trend of late [...]

Rogers On-Demand Online premieres today. Starting today, the Canadian media giant that is Rogers is offering Rogers On-Demand Online—Rodo—to all of its cable, Internet, home phone, and Fido customers. The one-stop beta site will stream current and archived TV shows, movies, sports, and music videos, available anytime and anywhere in Canada. We were able to [...]

A week after we took CityNews to task for their bottom-feeding coverage of a handful of rats in the window of Happy Seven, they once again led their 6 p.m. newscast with a piece on vermin in Chinatown. (Supposedly another restaurant was forced to close.) Citytv has also, we’re told, been running incessant promos for [...]

Photo taken just after midnight on Friday by Jonathan Goldsbie. The “For Renovations” part of the sign has since been torn off. You know what’s annoying? When the media overexposes a story while at the same time openly asking, “Is the media giving ____ too much coverage?” The Daily Show reams the cable news networks [...]

The TTC wants to get rid of adult tickets, using only tokens for adults to combat counterfeiters. In a move to placate ticket fans, Adam Giambrone promises to look into ways to create tokens that will be ruined when you forget to take them out of your pants and put them through the washing machine. [...]

Photos of CablePulse24′s broadcast on July 25, 2007, courtesy of Joel Charlebois. Just before noon on July 25, 2007, Joel Charlebois caught a man, he says, breaking into his house. When Charlebois gave chase, the man fell from the second-storey deck, landing hard on the ground below and breaking his leg. As police arrived, Charlebois—an [...]