Leave it to Rogers to destroy anything they touch. They bring them over to the new digs and then do it "their way". Pretend to like what you have while secretly creating what the execs deem better. Is Sportsnet next?

rogers is the devil

everyone should boycott all rogers good and services

Citytv is not the same anymore. I heard rumors that CFTO/CTV will be replacing 6pm anchor Christine Bently with Alicia Kay-Markson.

The worst thing is that there's no need to decimate the newsroom - Rogers ain't exactly hurting for cash, although I'm sure this will be positioned as a "cost saving measure".

Rogers clearly has ZERO commitment to locally produced news programming. All the "good" reporters defected to CTV or Global ages ago. I guess this viewer will be as well.

Wow, that's a lot of women gone! Sad and disgusting.

Seriously what they need to improve on is:
1. Up to date "news flashes" on the bottom of the screen - not new that is 2 days old
2. Much Music station (pathetic to say the least), and most of the shows they are producing (the dating show??, horrible). Cut out the commercials that Much produces in house and use "regular" commercials for the most part. Have only individual "tags" representing the station. Big $$$ savings here.

Is this another cash-grab from the "Promote local tv" by charging viewers an extra amount on their cable bill?

Michael Serapio is one of the finest people I have ever worked with...solid sense of journalism, hard working with an amazing heart. This hurts.

Much is a CTV property now and no longer affiliated with CityTV

Goes to show it makes no difference in today's "journalism" world if you've been around for 2 or 20 years. Money talks. Sad too, because the CityTv team already recently had to deal with enough with the big move and all...

And "New Media Expert" Kris Reyes still has a job how...?

Interesting... the official press release speaks to the "core business" and concentrating on shows that make money NOT shows that may inform or serve as a valuable resource for Torontonians.
http://ow.ly/YhA5
This is why the CRTC needs to pay attention to democracy and not the bottom line no matter how greased the palms may get! Corruption is endemic and dangerous to our future.

As much as CityTV may have, at times in the past, failed in its role to inform and educate, trumping gimmick over information, it was still a source of news for many low income citizens and new immigrants to this country. May I remind you wealthy white kids out there that our immigrants and working class are the backbone of all economies including ours so we would be remiss to alienate them.

City has gone downhill fast with Rogers but CTV will follow suit soon as well, it is the rapid concentration of ownership of OUR airwaves by private interests that is the root problem. Rogers has a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders so they will trim and cut without any thought to the fabric of our city and their role in it.

Rogers will pay lip service to community but only serves the community of class A shareholders so it is up to us, those who lose representation, to stand up and take the media back.

Stop the cable giants from controlling what you think and when, support your local paper and get YOUR voice out on the web.

Maybe because her name is followed by the word "expert?" I feel as if these titles are super wishy washy nowadays. I know a new media expert -- a REAL new media expert -- and she likely still has a job because the bigwigs are starting to realize the value of online journalism and the affect that technology has on journalism itself. The unfortunate part is that it's at the expense of the journalists that were those gumshoe reporters, who did everything the long and hard way, knocking on doors and such, when Google wasn't available to get all the answers from. We lost some good ones today.

since blogto is covering local news just fine, why do we need city tv or cp24? how many stations do you really need to cover pedestrians getting hit by cars at yonge and bloor, or cats trapped on trees? huh? or rats running around in restaurants in chinatown? but if people want to pay for that.. then please send your cheques directly to these stations and tell them how much you like them

CBC should pickup some of these legends.

I just wanted to point out the genders of those that were let go. Nice...really nice.

They fired all the females. Anne and Laura were stale old breads and it was time to get rid of them 10 years ago. They could have gotten rid of the crippled women while their at it.

@ Debbie:
"I just wanted to point out the genders of those that were let go. Nice...really nice."

I wouldn't read too much into that. These days there seems to be way more female on-air people than male to begin with.

The hottie Andrea Puino(sp?) was saved!
That should suffice the male viewers.

that's a fact, i meant

Dina Pugliese still has a job???? WTF!!! She should have been first to go!

She gives male vewiers a boner. She isnt going anywhere. Except for down, hopefully.

I was surprised that Anne was let go.

I don't watch the CityTv news, prefer CTV. Her one-liners in story previews were so cheesy......Tune in to see the axe that will end your career.

I think CBC is getting less uptight. I noticed last night Peter Mansbridge was chatting with another reporter who was delivering her story while standing and to the side. Oooh, I know - big deal - but still.

Odd how most of the on-air talent being relieved of their duties are women...

you just noticed that last night - no wonder tv ratings are in the toilet across the board - they have been standing since November!

Damn, some of these comments are horrible. LOL.


I would like to the implement of Facebook Connect to some of these comments. SMH.


Anyways, I hope this will just be a game of musical chairs, where we will be pleasantly surprised at seeing these familiar faces at other networks.

& does anyone know where Larysa Harapyn is?

Jennifer Valentyne is way worse. She is the stupidist journalist I have ever seen. How she survived these layoffs is beyond comprehension.

Forgot to add, I miss Amber Mac on mainstream TV! CP24 is nice and all, but you aren't on there nearly enough.

A note on Kris Reyes, she never claims to be a "New Media Expert". She just uses it on TV like Anderson Cooper. I have a feeling since Amber left Kris is just the only one that knows what twitter is!

I think she's great!

Before you put in your 2 cents maybe you should do your research...Citytv does not own Much Music and those old flashes, without mistake belong to CP24 (an outright zerox copy of CityTV and Breakfast Television style)

Sad day for CityTV i'm sure. Without a doubt they lead the way for interesting, intriguing, very local reporting. The first of its kind in the industry, in terms of the stories they tell, its local perspective and the "open newsroom" concept they honed

#rogers is the ugliest and darkest thing to ever happen to Canada. i don't give a damn that old man rogers kicked the bucket. He was a fucking scrooge who would take candy from a baby if the old bastard had the chance... This corporation of swine ruins everything it touches in the money. it treats its employees like it treats its customers, just a number... Who really wants to work for a bunch of bums like rogers?

if you knew anything about what ur talking about, those lines are written by people called WRITERS

Farah Nasser will land on her feet if people hiring have any sense. Smartest of the bunch!

So Rogers takes a page of the Stephen Harper philosophy and decides to axe a lot of women. I think Barbara Hall (Chief Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission) needs to take a closer look...
I'm pissed (along with many others here) that Anne Mroczowski is gone!!!! Another station would be stupid NOT to pick her up - are you listening Global?!?!?
Laura Di Battista :( Pam Seatle :(
And the new kids on the block - Marian Dimain, Merella Fernandez, Farah Nasser and Michael Serapio - you guys all have bright futures. I know I'll see you on my flat screen soon :)
Will personally miss you all *mwah*

Mike Serapio sounded like one of the afformentioned women let go.

As long as Andrea Piunno is still there, all is well with the world. What a hottie. I don't even hear what she's saying cuz I'm entranced by her beauty.

the top people offloaded were close associates of hurlabuse. he called them his 'pussy posse'. they pulled a lot of $ for little return. consider this a house cleaning both personally and professionally. i take no pleasure from someone losing a job but they laughed when he got rid of me. so i'm returning the favour. more precisely, when he got his attack troll tina to fire me because he didn't have the balls. and yet, she endures. the horror, the horror. the biggest loss? mike robbins - who co-created and managed cp24 with me. he was not a hurlabuse associate. that loss is inexplicable.

Ann Rohmer doesn't work for City. She works for CP24.

Some of the other comments make me think---- it is a lot of news women dismissed at once. Coincidence, or bias revealed? Rogers= old boys club?

Rogers took advantage of me while I was an employee of theirs. I was conned out of thousands of dollars. This is no surprise to me at all. Typical Rogers behaviour... their motto: "take advantage of customers and employees for $$."

Why dont they just use some of those system access fees theyre collecting to clean it up!

Noooooo!! Anne Mroczkowski!! This is upsetting.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was all planned from the very beginning.

These are the remaining Bingo Callers -http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/personalities

CityTv has been a joke for years.

Seriously...who would turn to City for international/national/insightful news?

City is good for fashion, music and time wasters. Oh, and the odd broker water main. LOL

They could have let another 3 or 4 go to create a fairly solid team.

Rogers is obviously thinning the herd to actually find their place in TO.

Good Luck.

OMG! Listen to you, they (Rogers) took your money, now exactly how did they do that?? Not pay you for services that you provided, how does a major corporation just take money from an employee/customer, because myself being a consumer does not allow for someone to just take from me, it sounds like a far stretch of a story considering you have not relayed any info to back up your claims.....

Btw, the @CTV_PR classiness continued with tweets about CP24's new 3pm show "filling the void" immediately.

At least Citytv Toronto got to hang on to the 6pm and 11pm newscasts. The other Citytv outlets across the country aren't so lucky.

As sad as these layoffs are, they are not surprising -- CityTV has been in trouble for a while (one reason CTV wanted to buy CHUM was to revitalize the City brand), and Rogers has never been a particularly enthusiastic broadcaster. Sadly, it seems intent on turning City into a Global/CTV wannabe, losing just what made City interesting and vital.

Dina Pugliese is a complete joke of an employee, but she kept her job. She calls in sick more days than she actually works.

What a joke.

Humm Do you think someone gave Jim McKenny the heads-up when he "retired" at the end of December Hummm...

Others have said it, but all those ankers are women! I am not a women, but even I can see that abhorrant pattern.

Jennifer Valentyne....The ONLY person in the history of tv to show up on BT to do a story on a seniors lawn bowling club WEARING knee high stilleto boots..........sooo sad...

Blame it on the executive. They had to build a TajMahal (the new CITY TV site)in an era when nobody is making money in TV. One exec in particular is probably petitioning the board to name the building after him.

So how do you recover 80 plus million dollars in capital. On the backs of the good people of course. Let's see, Marian's wages put against he building will pay it off (at no interest) in 133 years.

CTV didn't want to buy CHUM to "revitalize" Citytv. They were far, far more interested in CHUM's cable properties and the CHUM-City Building itself. Sure, they they would have preferred to keep Citytv instead of A, but they wasted no time stripping it of all its valuable properties and selling it for scrap to Rogers.

I'm sad for the individuals involved, but try as I might I cannot shed a tear for the institution as so many seem to be doing here. I can try to get worked up about local news, broadcast policy, telecommunications, CRTC, etc., etc., fine... but I use television for entertainment, not news (nor the slushy infotainment in between).

Hopefully these personalities can find a relatively soft landing somewhere else.

Reading these comments, I'm only just realizing how fuzzy my grip was on who owns what bits of the CityTV diaspora. Honestly, the only part of it that touches my life these days is probably CP24 -- and usually online, at that.

In the end, if this kind of crappy hack and slash serves to discredit whatever sensationalist, shallow, pefunctory, under-produced `journalism` content the remaining overworked staff will manage to put then all the better. We can move on to media better suited to important information and abandon TV to the dogs.

Hmm, not sure why I`m replying to Hamish there. Though I do like your theory!

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, why didnt they get rid of that blowhard Michael Kuss???? maybe they'll just give him the whole fricken hour now to do the weather!!

I'll agree with puppy on that last statement. I'd add Roger Petersen in there too.

Unfortunate as is was to see these people lose their jobs, sooner or later you'd have to think that this was going to happen. I'm a bit surprised they didn't get rid of more than those they did.

They were a good team with presumably good ratings, which IS the biz of broadcast. I also note that most of the layoffs are female, what message does that send? It really speaks of a corporate egghead trying to justify something they know little about. Dare I recall the Aaron Davis debacle?

Rogers is the ugliest and darkest thing to ever happen to Canada. I don't give a damn that old man Rogers kicked the bucket. He was a f*cking scrooge who would take candy from a baby if the old bastard had the chance.

This corporation of swine ruins everything it touches in the money. it treats its employees like it treats it's customers, just like a number.

Leave it up to Rogers to not only destroy the primetime lineup of Citytv with just airing US programming non-stop (hello, we have NBC, ABC for that), but destroy the last good thing left on Citytv, which was their news.

My guess is that since Citytv in Toronto only requires 14 hours of local programming, eventually the station will be gutted of their 6pm and 11pm newscasts.

I can't believe that a station in the largest market in Canada is not going to have any news presence on the weekend. What an utter joke!

The way Rogers is running this station, it will soon be on the same level as SUN TV.

I'm so sick of Rogers. I wanna switch my phone away from them (I'm on Fido, which was bought and nearly destroyed by Rogers years ago) real soon now.

Good-bye you greedy pigs!!!!!!

CITY TV was amazing before it was taken over my Rogers. Movies, out of the ordinary TV, HEAD THE SOCK , Baby Blue Movies, etc
Now the channel is nothing but crap !
After this huge stupid move, i bet this network will also lose a lot loyal viewers.
Two middle fingers go off to ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS !

Another sorry aspect of this is that the concept of diversity is being replaced with rogers white bread. If diversity-minded thinking is highly evolved, then rogers white bread thinking is primitive in nature. There was a rich texture in both genders and nationalities on CITY, now it just looks like CTV.

Does Gord Martineau still work there?

CITYTV will eventually be as gut wrenching to watch as SunTV.
As far as CTV goes ... it's always been known as The Last Arian Outpost.

This is awesome. I guess now we can be treated to another 20 minutes of Michael Kuss droning on about how the weather is exactly the same in all parts of the city. Sigh...

What happend with Michael Kuss on Global News and where is Gord these days ? I hope they didn't fire him too !

Rogers doesn't care about loyalty or years of service. The City brand use to stand for community and local representation. Rogers acquired the brand to try and buy some of that brands established reputation.
Instead they have destroyed this brand, they already got rid of Peter Silverman, Amber Mac and now have gotten rid of other personalities with established local celebrity. At least CTV is investing in the CITY brands they kept in the deal.

With Ted Rogers gone, all Rogers has is a hired temp CEO who cares for nothing except for the bottom line. Why? The bigger the profit the higher their bonuses are. CEO's are a death to the economy and to a company. They do not push the company forward but remain the status quo. Pretty soon these tech companies will be asking for a bail out. Also stop the local programing tax, that is nothing but B.S paid by us.

Well Moses days are not over. He's BACK.....new radio station just for boomers. A magazine for boomers. Anne and others should join Moses . Retirement @ 65 is not law. We boomers can work as long as we can move and talk.......Where will CityTV Rogers be when the boomers change the channel. Never give up on Moses......

As far as employers go, Rogers is atrocious; I should know, I used to work for them in their publishing division. They laid off my entire department a few years ago. They have no sense of loyalty or responsibility to their long-time employees.

Rogers’ tactics are truly bizarre. I remember when Now Dead Ted entrusted his son, Not Yet Dead Ted Jr. with tracking down illegal satellite dishes in the name of justice. The real reason was to report illegal dishes around Toronto so Rogers could gain more business. The company spent a fortune on these idiotic “Dish Hunter” badges and paraphernalia, and left them on all employee desks – almost all soon found their way to the blue box. Then there was the week they send voice messages to all employees telling them to go to the cafeteria to “meet John Tory in person!” when he was running for mayor of Toronto. Although Tory, a former Rogers executive, lost the race, you would never know it from the not-so-subtle pressure to meet the man.

The Rogers mentality to solving a problem? Instead of fixing it, they throw more money at the problem. The only reason Rogers clings to Maclean's magazine and their entire publishing division is prestige. It seems Now Dead Ted wanted to "class up" the image of Rogers by adding magazines of prestige like Maclean's to the fold.

I remember hearing stories about Ted Rogers walking through Maclone's late at night when everyone else had left. I don't know if they were true or not, but I wouldn't be at all surprised. I think his ghost still haunts everyone it encounters, and bores them to death by repeating the same words over and over again: "My father invented the first vacuum radio tube!" Zzzzzzzzzz...

Because she is hot !!

I don't understand all the fuss. City Tv news, local, national, and international, was mediocre at best. I will give them this, they did a fine job of obfuscating the real issues of this city with pablum that only morons could digest as 'news.' I'm sure they are all very nice people, but really folks, the sentimentality here is a bit nauseating - I can't believe I even wasted my time perpetuating this discussion with my input. I should be ashamed of myself.

Best news I've heard all day. I hate everyone on City except for Kevin Frankish! And black Kevin from TTC transit control.

Yeah since Rogers has taken over CityTV it has gone down hill big time. I've been a loyal watcher since it first went on the air. Always hated watching CTV news. Too stuffy for my liking.

Has anyone noticed that City seems to be feeling more and more like OMNI TV? I'm sick of seeing those stupid Lucy Zilio commercials. If I wanted to watch that crap I would turn on OMNI.

Anyhow it is a sad day for sure. I think for me I'll start watching CBC news. For now I'll keep watching BT in the mornings but I think things at City are just going to continue to get worse.

Just FYI - after these layoffs, 15 CityNews people are left (excluding kevin, dina, jen). FOUR of that 15, that ONE QUARTER of the city personalities, are for WEATHER. thats ridiculous.

At least Daly is still there...I love hearing him use the terms "pervert", and "thug", it's lie he's doing the news from his basement. hahah. City NEws is like a sitcom, for real news, tune into 8.

Anyone notice they removed the Lay-off story off the citynews website?

Sad sad sad day for Citytv. Lots of good people got laid off. Shame on Rogers for f*ing up a great channel.

I say bring back Erica Ehm . Now she was the hottie of hotties.

Having worked in more than a few television newsrooms for almost 20 years I have seen this a couple or more times. It hurts like hell when it happens to you and it feels like a death in the family when your co-workers have to get pushed out.

Rumour is though that Rogers is strategically positioning CITY TV so they can sell it off at a lower price and then they can then take a crack at the Global Television Network. Canwest's newspapers are already on the chopping block so the network is obviously next.

Like many have mentioned, why didn't they make a cut in weather reporting? Why do they spend so much time and money telling me that it's 1 degree hotter 3Km away from where I live? I just want to know what the weather forecast is. If I want so much info about troughs and cold/warm fronts etc. I'll go to environment Canada's web site.

I will not be tuning in to City Tv anymore,it's been fucked beyond
repair.

i did, i left, im happier..

I was looking for the layoff story a few hours ago and noticed it mysteriously disappeared eventhough it was one of the top stories today....

That link has been removed!

Frankly I'm a little surprised to learn that some people still watch CityTV.

I know, I can't believe Drummond still has a job. That guy is useless.

This is right out of the corporate handbook. Page 1 - Within 6 months of a company being bought out, there will be layoffs.

This is not about talent, just strictly dollars. Anne has been with the station for a while, and is clearly going to earn more than some of the newer staff. I am 100% positive that a directive was given to save X dollars. You do that by laying off 2 or 3 more junior staff or by letting Anne M go. It is not an easy decision.

Having worked for a company that was bought out (and has bought up others) this is exactly how it plays out every time. It is not about who is the most talented, or about who has been loyal, or who is a good/bad person... it is just about money.

As per CRTC requirements, a corporation cannot hold two broadcast licenses in the same market (Toronto), this is why it's theorized that by Rogers stripping CITY, they could make the price more attractive to sell off, then they would be legally able to bid on another nation-wide network.

Bring back Moses and Steve. Hire me again, too.

I alsoi like Kevin from the TTC

Nice spelling buddy...

I don't watch CP24 anymore because I never liked the CTV anchors, so I had to watch the old Cp24 cast on CityTV..but now they aren't even there anymore so i have no option but to watch ctv? Something smells and it ain't Anne.

City's signal has long been known as notoriously weak (1.2kW) and directional. Your hair drier uses more power than their broadcast signal. Anyone living along the lake has difficulty receiving it.

More importantly, they've lost the essence of what made them relevant.

"OMG!"

There is a statute of limitations on my situation so there's nothing I can do. Now, if you're in a position to refute my claim with facts go right ahead. If you're in a position to help me bring public awareness to Rogers' practices towards employees I'll be glad to show you my evidence and paperwork.

Rogers is bad. Preponderance of evidence my friend.

Anne no longer there? You lost me completely. I have been a major fan of hers. She is absolutely HOT! She looks great, sounds great, and has reported the news honestly. She has legs that never end and believe me, when you see her standing around on the news floor, when all else is depressing, look at those black nyloned legs, and you forget all the world woes. Anne, I for one will miss you and will keep an eye out for you, because I know in not too long a time, you will resurface, and I will be there watching you again. Good luck Anne, you have a whole shitload of fans in the GTA.

Oh, I am so glad Tara Webber is still there. I met her at an event she was hosting and is even cuter in person.
I can't believe they spared Cynthia Mulligan. Thankfully. And Francis D'Souza!
We should support those who are left.
Losing your friends and colleagues so suddenly like this is incredibly difficult.
I hope CityTV can move forward but they may have been hacked up beyond repair.

I can't believe Anne is gone! I love how she presents herself..a very professional, intriguing and beautiful woman. She's all style. I also can't believe that they axed her and kept Dina Pugliese..wtf!!! God she's irritating.

Kuss is a dweeb, major nerd. Mark Dailey has his head so far up the Toronto Police Service's arse that it made him untouchable. Another classless move by Rogers. Fight the mono-culture, people!

anne i will miss you very much you are a true professional.Laura its about time you got axed most annoying person ever, but i think some people should have been added to the list like kevin and dina boring. Kris reyes still has a job what does she do anyway?and all the weather people they just talk too much.

The axe could drop at Citytv Winnipeg by next week.

Oh no!!
Who will tell us the Red River is overflowing again???
Or that someone, in cofidence, mentioned to someone else that someone said maybe one day, the NHL would consider putting a hockey team back in winnipeg.

What a loss of great reporting.

Yes, City have really gone downhill in recent years, even before the Rogers takeover. Think of all the good people who are now gone - Colin Vaughan/Adam Vaughan, Jojo Chintoh, even Harold ;). The "magic" that City-TV had in the past, in their ability to cover the street view of Toronto in a fresh and relevant fashion, is now lonnng gone... too bad :(

Bag of hot nickels? Riiiiggghht.
Admit it, you think she's hot.

andrea, tara, dina, cynthia.

just missing farah

yes shes as hot as a steaming pile.

another sure sign that CityTV's gonna die

Please, the CITY TV everyone knew and loved died well over ten years ago. Poor Much Music died in 1995.

bpm tv is better than MUCH MUSIC !

and talk about all these bloody reality shows !

Whenever there's a change in ownership, a takeover of any organization, changes are guaranteed to happen. Usually the first changes are felt at the staff levels. I know because after a change of wonership, I along with many others, were laid off (let go) by one firm after 20 years of loyal and excellent service. The sad part is that a few years after we lost our jobs the new owners simply sold the sad remnants of what was once a triving company to another and even bigger company. The same thing will happen to CITYTV.

I cannot help but wonder; is this just the beginning and more changes are on the way. Why do you think Rogers CITYTV moved to Dundas Square?

Answer:
Rogers will sell out to a Major Media TV Network!

Wow, really classy. That's a person you're talking about and a very talented and hard working one at that. One of the downsides to freedom of speech is that idiots like yourself are allowed to express their hateful opinions.

Also, let me just say that the layoffs affected BOTH male and female staff pretty evenly if you include everyone behind the scenes. The only reason it looks gender-biased is because City had more female anchors/reporters before the axe fell. This obviously compounded by the fact that over the last year Citytv has lost Richard Madan, Silverman and Jojo. By my count, the news room now has 10 female and 10 male broadcasters. That's including BT, Tracy on Cityline, Sangita and Jee who are on maternity leave and videographer Audra. Seems pretty even to me.

Please, do your research before you comment. A lot of families were hurt yesterday and gender didn't have a baring on the extent or depth of that hurt.

They are both stupid

...please don't tell me they got rid of Duke Redbird!!!

I think I saw Richard Madden on the CTV national news.

Not fair all good hard working individuals,maybe now they can work at a REAL tv staion/network!!!REMEMBER HOW THEY TREATED HAROLD HUSSIEN AND PETER SILVERMAN a bunch of losers.Anne and Lara were valuable assets now they can go on a nice stress free break from rogers mega aholes!!!

It's the City TV I remember... Anne has always been a class act... Dina is a joke and should have been axed a well...

News is going internet based now. People want quick and easy headlines, they don't want to sit around for an hour to hear highlights of stories. It is a shame anyone gets fired for a job they did well, this is why government jobs are key. Get in a union and save your job.

They've put this CityLine program on for the last 2 days instead of the 5pm news hour. Really if a person wanted to watch brain-numbing television like that there's always the CBC.

Seriously it makes you dislike Rogers a great deal. A huge expensive high tech facility with many of its greatest people gone. Sad.

Ya it kinda does, but shes still one hot piece.
Just hit mute.

a sad turn of events,for sure. Some good people were let go and let's not forget the camera crews and others who lost their jobs due to the dreaded "downsizing/restructuring curse". Here are a few of the personalities who SHOULD have been let go:

1. Kuss: useless; mass saturation of weather...come to think of it, why do we need so many??

2. Frankie Flowers: see above

3. Jen Valentyne: flippant, pithy, lightweight....needs to be on OMNI...

4. Dina P: see above

5. Kris Reyes: god awful; do we really need a tech commentator? reminds me of a condom with a hole- pointless.

6. Kathryn Humphrys: her glib and off-the-cuff to approach is sooo old...

7. Tara Webber: someone mentioned earlier about the fact that because she is handicapped, she ws safe because of the Onley factor....couldn't agree more!!

Have some perspective.

Each one of those who got canned have done great segments over the years. That doesnt have anything to do with their firings.

her doing a segment on your daughter doesnt change anything.

how do you "expand" news coverage?? either there is news worth covering or not.. unless you invent some news or covering news about people fell down the stairs at home

anne was all class rogers is bunch of jerks

The Executive offices at Rogers should be cleared out of all the morons who now run the asylum . These fine people who they have let go, anchors and support staff, were a great asset to the company. I for one will get my news elsewhere.
The execs and bean counters at Rogers are again showing how very good they are at lining their own pockets while screwing the viewers and subscribers.

The only ones out of the cuts in the last year that i will miss are Larysa Harapyn and Pam Seatle. They were really good.

Laura Dibatista was the perfect opportunity to switch channels. She was very annoying.

why aren't there any layoffs at CBC, because the sucker taxpayer supports it

CBC sucks yes

Why didn't they get rid of Dina Pugliese - she's horrible! So cliche, typical cheesey Italian. City dropped the ball on that one.

Take the blinders off.
You are living in a fantasy world if you dont think her handicap and Onley's history didnt factor into her staying put.
No one is debating the merits of her accomplishments in life, they are all well and good. Its great to see.
How that factors into anything to do with her talents as a reporter have nothing to do with her overcoming the odds.
From an outsiders perspective, watching her on the news, she is not a great on-air personality (case can be made for the majority of City's on-air people mind you). But unfortunately in this day and age you have to be the type of person people's short attention span want to see and hear. And shes not good for that.
So yes, her handicap is a very real reason as to why she stuck around.

bravo rogers...i see you run your tv staions as poorly as you run your baseball team..no surprise i guess...g/l anne

I'm sure Anne M won't be off the air for too long. Want a job for life and bottomless pit goto CBC I'm sure they would take you in a flash, all they would have to do is get rid of Don Cherry.
I'm sure she will find something she is such a classy Lady.

Daniel .............. Toronto
http://dandmb50.tumblr.com/

Wow. I really like Tara Weber on air.
I can't believe how ridiculous people are being.
Shows how far we as a society still need to go.

We get it, shes handicapped.
But this isnt the 60's, 70's or 80's anymore where people with a handicap didnt have any rights, etc. that kept them from getting fired.

Everyone understand they can do just as a good a job or better than someone fully able.

So why do we keep pandering to those with a handicap?

Its all very sad and it just goes to show that rogers does not care about their viewers. i must say tho, I could tell that City was going down the drain last year when it was American thanks giving. Why is it I tuned in to watch the 6pm news and all I could see was football??? We are CANADIANS, we don’t pre-empted news on a weekday when its an AMERICAN holiday! Utter rubbish!
I must say tho they were very transparent with the favoritism with laura, remember i think it was last year there was an earthquake in Italy or something, and every day it was another story consisting of her calling her uncle guido bawling on the phone asking him if he was ok? GIMMIE A FREAKIN BREAK! Im sure tho that the ladies on mat leave are gonna wise up and high tail it to another station! Heck I would!

Get rid of kuss, and that stiff bitchy nalini chick, she seems very uppity and I just don’t like her vibe

I refuse to watch news from CP24 for my news I'm now only going to watch the CBC.
I'm not going to let these bean counters from rogers force me to watch the very conservative CTV News. Further more I'm going to cancel my cell phone with rogers....their rates are too high and the service sucks anyway.

As a radio reporter downsized in the 1980s - by the Conrad Black family no less - (that's before there was TV, I know) it was - and this is - mostly about number-crunchers looking at the seniority list, saying, "You cost too much!" and showing them the door. There is ZERO consideration for community relations, affection of the public for individual on-air types, etc. For Rogers' idiocy CITY-TV, now in its Dundas Square digs, deserves the same fate as the building's previous owner/tenant...the Toronto Olympic Spirit.

I like local programming except I hate the City TC show featuring Mayor Miller and Ride the Rocket...with Adam Giambrone....If you Rogers expect taxpayers to pay for Political propaganda..who can forget it....These shows are about self interest and self promotion of two incompetent politicians....Terrible example of local programming and I can't wait the day they are cancelled.

I believe those shows air on CP24, not Citytv. CP24 was sold to CTV a few years back, which is partly owned by Bell.

Adam Giambrone's final show was the other night as well.

toally agree i ALWAYS ALWAYS turn BT off when Dina shows up.......he wots t,he deal you car park 2 cars in her enlarged nostrils too.LMAO....time to axe michael kutz from his longwinded weather forcast too.....man seemed half of the news was his..nuff weather already.......sports dept. strictly amateur...ryerson 101 class I think..........maybe it was time to get rid of the college grads on air at city.......

The Rogers scrum bags are the ones that should be fired

MADasHELL: it's not only Rogers, but Cogeco, Bell
They cut all services, yet raise prices
You sign up for so many channels, then they state they are taking away 10, yet you still pay the same for lessss channels

This is Canada
Canadians we whine, yet do nadda:(
Except for that March the other day......KUDOS to them

But otherwise we whine
If you look at other countries, they protest in the thousands
They believe in what they are protesting and get things done
Sure it may not be 'cable', but they DO picket for their rights

Rogers needs an ENEMMMMMMMMMMMA!
Fast!

Ive never laughed so hard till I came across this site. I was totally surprised when I heard the big names that got canned. Thats what brought me to this site. Someone posted a comment that 3 of the big long time tv personalities were not very nice thats fact. Stuck up cows but Gord Martineau is also an asshole if you do a search you will find outtakes where he uses slander and vulgarity towards his co-workers.

Personaly Id of fired that air bag Kuss. Why the ever got rid of Harold Hussein for the weather is beyond me. They brought in all this technical bs with all these weather stations. Totall bs. I want to know if its gonna snow how much end of story. Not temps for every part of GTA.

Pam should of been gone long ago. She's a great reporter but she was pregnant more often then a rabbit. No surprise they canned her.

Laura? LOL ugly thing should of been gone when they first gave her the medical specialist titlte lol. CityTV with all its specialists. Specially retared you mean?

As far as the complaints about too many women being axed? Get real most of staff are women.

LOL im surprised Ann Rhomer is still around. I like her though but shes old and has to go!

City tv going nowhere

I totally agree.. she is so annoying and am tired of her kissing kevin's ass..you got the job already Dina!!!..Would you like some butter with that corn?

As far as Kuss and the weather peeps go, this seems to be a rising trend which is not limited to CITY by any means. We're seeing an increase in localized weather reporting (largely pointless) and more time spent presenting weather overall. It's nice cheery, vanilla apolitical "news" content that they seem determined to convince us is of great importance.

Late on this, but love the comments. Ironically, I used to see the pompous pair, Anne and Laura, pushing their way around the food court/market across from 299 Queen when they were there. Some other observations:
1) Good old Jo-Jo Chintoh: (queue African accent) "The perpetrator, a young black man, was seen fleeing from there .... to .... there" (while standing on the roughest public housing estates).
2) Harold Hosein: (queue Trini accent) "Well, Gawd, the weatha today is perr-fect for your tomatoes"
3) Laryssa Harapyn: I can't read the teleprompter worth sh*t but I am a beautiful amazon.
4) Michael Serrapio: with those oh-so-beautiful eyebrows, why is his departure being counted amongst the "women"?
5) Dina P.: represents a major demographic - old-school dizzy Gina's from Woodbridge (which is where she's from!)
6) Tara Webber: she's actually not bad as a reporter, and they send her to the crappiest assignments (like minus 30 weather last Friday night).

who was the guy that faught for people that were being ripped off?? it might be something like goldburg or something...is he gone too?? hope not!

Just saw an ad on Citytv today (Feb 6) for their now cancelled 5pm newscast. Epic #FAIL.

Bring Anne M back to side with Mark D at 6pm and dump Gord M, god he's so annoying, Never get rid of Mark D! ROGERS sucks we all know that. Moses rules!

Ah, This is exactly what I was looking for! Clarifies
a few contradictions I've been hearing.

Pam was re-hired because one of the non-fired reporters will be going on maternity leave soon.

Anne Mroczkowski will be joining Leslie Roberts in late April or early May, only on the 6pm show. Roberts will anchor the 11 solo.

I only watch CityTV because my wife does. True the news quality is pathetic but that can be rectified by taking in some remedial CBC or BBC content. However, having found this site I might give up TV completely and just read these comments each night. Best hour I have spent in ages!

Ted said that The Best is yet to come!!!! NOt the worst, He must be rolling in his grave!!!! you should be ashamed of yourself Nadir, Ted trusted you

Leslie Roberts, what channel/network is he on I thought he was on the radio. I'm so confused it's hard to keep track of where these people are. I did and do like Anne M. and will go wherever she goes she was the best City had and I think it's about time I switched anyway. I want a station that gives us relevant news and enough with the weather clown shows, we need the temperatures tomorrow and the next few days. Not all of this, high pressure moving in moving out high pressure low pressure what a waste of time. I can get it all in one click on weather website.

Daniel ......... Toronto
http://dandmb50.wordpress.com/

I have stopped watching City TV news and all its programming since they have cut peoples jobs. Never thought for one moment that would ever happen that we would see these wonderful newscasters to their finale. This is downright disgraceful and I am sure undeserving, surely you can do something to bring these wonderful people back into our daily lives, we miss them love them and want them all back. Do you hear me...... Anne Graham

City-tv blew it by cutting their news. No news on weekends? Stations in much smaller news markets are way better managed than the Rogers owned tv station.

What brought City to the forefront many years ago was being every where with their news compared to the static and boring CFTO news. City shook the whole news system to a more upbeat way and got the attention from anyone. Now, it's turning itself off from the news. Wonder if Sun tv could pick up the slack from City?

PS: I still call it The Skydome!

Mayor Miller.....
How dare you tell us there is free speech and that Toronto is a free city? How can you sleep at night and feed us shit about the great Toronto, when in our face .....Bill Blair ( biggest gangster of all ) said that freedom of speech is LIMITED!!!!!!!!!.......Again: Shame on you and all the other of your kind that don't have the Balls to report the truth.
Police ( Goons ) left those cars there on purpose!!!!!!!!......to keep the idiots away from what really matters!!!!!!!!
Police ( goons ) are the once who instigated to violence, they are the once dressed in black, just to be able to blame it on others and justify the 999,999,999.99 $ that was spent to protect some fat bastards that have no clue what really means to try and stay alive when The government is raping us daily with taxes ,laws ,bylaws ,discrimination and intimidation!!!
I personally was asked by a cop " Did you have fun with the cars? "....with a big EVIL SMILE on his face, just because I wear baggy pants doesn't mean I am a vandal, that also shows how shallow the police is and the way they just like to harass and intimidate all of us, all this is done to make sure we have no freedom to say what we think.
Those cars were old garbage that TV stations in Toronto and the police have made a scenario of, just to make us the protesters look bad.
SHAME SHAME SHAME..........I HOPE NOBODY BELIEVES YOUR LIES AND CORRUPTED WAYS.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF GANGSTERS AND THE POLICE ARE YOUR ENFORCERS.

I will post this everywhere on the net, hopefully the whole world will see the "freedom" we have in Toronto, Canada ( the friendliest place on earth, LMAO )

Shame on you Miller and your Possy!
Shame on you Harper and your corupt Goverment!
Shame on you Police aka Billion Dollars Gangsters!
Shame on you all that did not come out to the street and see what really happened!
I guess you like being bent over and Violated in your asses.
SHAME ON YOU All!!!!!!!!

If hell does exist you will all end up in it's deepest pits!.....hopefuly.
I was there and no one of you couch potatoes TV watching ships can tell me different

will she be re-fired once francis d'souza returns?