Editing CFTR (AM) (section)

===All-news era===
[[File:680News 2015 Logo.png|thumb|150px|680 News logo until 2021.]]
Through the 1980s and 1990s, music listeners switched to FM, prompting AM stations like CFTR to find non-music formats. On June 1, 1993, at 10&nbsp;am, CFTR announced it would be discontinuing the [[Top 40]] format, and began broadcasting a countdown of "the top 500 songs of the (then) past 25 years" titled "The CFTR Story". At 6&nbsp;am on June 7, after playing [[Phil Collins]]' "[[Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)|Against All Odds]]" (which was the #1 song in the countdown) and [[Starship (band)|Starship]]'s "[[We Built This City]]" (which also ended CHUM's Top 40 era in 1986), and the station stopped broadcasting in AM stereo, CFTR adopted its present [[all-news radio]] format as "680 News". It was the first all-news radio station in Canada since the end of the former [[CKO]] network in 1989.<ref>Greg Quill, "CFTR dumps pop music to launch day-long news," ''The Toronto Star'', June 2, 1993.</ref><ref>Tony Van Alphen, "CKO forced to close due to red ink," ''The Toronto Star'', November 11, 1989.</ref><ref>Greg Quill, "Writing had been on the wall for closedown of CKO Radio," ''The Toronto Star'', November 11, 1989.</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=1994-BC-YB|url=https://americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1994/1994-BC-YB.pdf#page=595|magazine=[[Broadcasting Yearbook]]|date=1994|page=B-441}}</ref>

[[File:CityNews 680 logo.png|thumb|150px|CityNews branding (2021–2024).]]

The station offers listeners a "weather guarantee" jackpot, which is drawn from a pool of listeners who enter the contest.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}

In June 2021, Rogers announced that it would rebrand its news radio stations under the ''[[CityNews]]'' brand to create a shared identity with local news on [[Citytv]] television stations and their corresponding smartphone app and website.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/06/04/rogers-extends-citynews-brand-to-five-more-of-its-news-radio-stations/|title=Rogers extends CityNews brand to five more of its news radio stations|agency=[[The Canadian Press]]|author=<!-- uncredited -->|work=CityNews|date=June 4, 2021|access-date=June 5, 2021|archive-date=June 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604213625/https://medicinehatnews.com/business/2021/06/04/rogers-extends-citynews-brand-to-five-more-of-its-news-radio-stations/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The rebranding took effect on October 18, 2021, with the station rebranding as ''CityNews 680''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://toronto.citynews.ca/exciting-changes-ahead-for-citynews-this-fall/|title=CityNews|website=toronto.citynews.ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/10/13/680-news-citynews-toronto/|title=CityNews|website=toronto.citynews.ca}}</ref>

On March 25, 2024, as part of a reimaging of the ''CityNews'' brand, CFTR rebranded as ''680 NewsRadio Toronto''.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Weekly Briefing |url=https://broadcastdialogue.com/twb-rsa-032824/ |access-date=March 28, 2024 |work=Broadcast Dialogue |date=March 28, 2024}}</ref>