Editing CITY-DT (section)

===News operation===
{{Expand section|history of CITY-TV's news department|date=August 2011}}
{{further|CityNews#CityNews Toronto|l1=CityNews Toronto}}
CITY-DT broadcasts {{frac|34|1|2}} hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with {{frac|6|1|2}} hours each weekday and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the largest local newscast output among the [[Greater Toronto Area]] market's television stations and the largest of any station in Ontario. It is also the only remaining owned-and-operated station of the Citytv network that operates a full-scale news department, as local midday and evening newscasts on its Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver sister stations were cancelled between 2006 and 2010; outside of Toronto, locally produced programming on Citytv's O&O sister stations is now limited to local versions of the morning news and talk program franchise ''[[Breakfast Television]]'', a program that originated on CITY in September 1989. For many years, CITY aired its late evening newscast at 10&nbsp;p.m. (as such, it was one of the few Canadian television stations to air a local news program during the final hour of prime time, a more common practice across the border in the United States); after Citytv became a television system and shifted its prime time schedule towards a line-up of primarily American programs, the station moved its late newscast to 11&nbsp;p.m.

On January 19, 2010, Rogers Media announced the immediate cancellation of ''CityNews at Noon'', ''CityOnline'', ''CityNews at Five'', Citytv's national and international newscast ''CityNews International'', and the station's weekend evening newscasts, as part of massive restructuring and layoffs at the Citytv stations. Among those laid off were longtime 6&nbsp;p.m. co-anchor [[Anne Mroczkowski]] and six reporters (Farah Nasser, Jee Yun Lee, Laura Di Battista, Marianne Dimain, Merella Fernandez and Michael Serapio); Pam Seatle was also dismissed, but returned to the station one month later.<ref>[http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/68327--layoffs-cancelled-shows-at-citytv Layoffs, Cancelled Shows At Citytv] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122082059/http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/68327--layoffs-cancelled-shows-at-citytv |date=January 22, 2010 }} citynews.ca, published January 19, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2010/19/c2082.html Citytv Restructures Television Operations To Improve Business and Better Serve Audiences] Rogers Media press release via CNW Group, published January 19, 2010.</ref>

The weekend 6 and 11&nbsp;p.m. newscasts returned to the station in March 2011, followed by the return of the weekday ''CityNews at Five'' and the half-hour expansion of ''Breakfast Television'' (with its start time moved up to 5:30&nbsp;a.m., and expanding to {{frac|3|1|2}} hours as a result) on September 5, 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/citytv-launches-news-at-five-and-breakfast-television-at-5-30-am/1000545115/ |title=Citytv Launches News at Five and Breakfast Television at 5:30 am |access-date=August 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319223544/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/citytv-launches-news-at-five-and-breakfast-television-at-5-30-am/1000545115/ |archive-date=March 19, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On October 3, 2011, the station began producing half-hour extensions of ''Breakfast Television'' and its nightly 11&nbsp;p.m. newscast, ''CityNews Tonight'', for exclusive broadcast on CityNews Channel (these, along with a half-hour extension of the weekend 6&nbsp;p.m. newscast also began airing on CITY-DT the following year, and became exclusive to CITY-DT once CityNews Channel ceased operations).

On April 14, 2012, CITY-DT began simulcasting CityNews Channel's morning news programming from Saturdays from 7 to 8&nbsp;a.m. and Sundays from 7 to 9&nbsp;a.m., becoming the only television station in the Toronto market that carried news programs on weekend mornings; this ended when CityNews Channel discontinued live broadcasts in May 2013, with CITY-DT filling those time periods with a mix of infomercials and lifestyle programming.<ref>[http://tvloon.ca/citytv-toronto-expands-news-on-weekend Citytv Toronto Expands News on Weekend] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223230302/http://tvloon.ca/citytv-toronto-expands-news-on-weekend |date=February 23, 2015}}, TVLoon.ca, April 9, 2012.</ref> On August 13, 2012, the station expanded its nightly 11&nbsp;p.m. newscast, ''CityNews Tonight'', to one hour, making the program the only hour-long late evening newscast in the Toronto market.<ref>[http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/citynews-tonight-expands-to-one-hour/1001614947/ CityNews Tonight Expands to One Hour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221212446/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/citynews-tonight-expands-to-one-hour/1001614947/ |date=February 21, 2014 }}, ''Broadcaster Magazine'', August 13, 2012.</ref> In September 2013, the weeknight 5&nbsp;p.m. newscast was reformatted as ''The 5''.