alklay
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But they were always changing the exterior of the old CityTV building (even punching out exterior walls).
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City-TV & OMNI-TV's H.Q. (formerly Torch, Quadrangle)
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BobBob
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Uh, the truck is attached to the wall, it's not actually driving through it.
CodeMonkey
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What he means is, when they took down the Citytv logo on that side of the building they added a balcony when they put up the CTV Logo
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Of course, I should have known that by the picture he posted
Aaron
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Still makes me a little ill to see that CTV sign on that building.
CodeMonkey
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I couldn't agree more. Citytv and 299 Queen St West go together like the NBC and GE Building(Rockefeller Center) in New York.
syn
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I hope the new signage is outstanding because this is big disappointment otherwise. I realize they've made a lot of internal changes, but for their new headquarters I was expecting much, much more.
CodeMonkey
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..like CityTv and 99 Queen East...
Aaron
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I have a soft spot for the old Citytv. When I was in my mid-teens, it was my dream to get accepted into the OCA(D) foundation studies and live in Toronto (check and check) in a beautiful apartment on Queen with two female roommates (no and no). I used to take the bus in from St.Catharines often, just to walk around the city - usually in the Queen/Spadina area and parts of lower Yonge. I became sort of fascinated with the hipster Queen West crowd who worked at City and thought, my, what a great life. I was fortunate enough to have a relative who worked there and he'd take me in and show me around and I even pulled a couple overnighters with him. Quite the little community inside that building back then (early 90's). I'm going to assume it's not quite that way anymore what with Ben Mulroney and the like, polluting the air with their silliness.
Poor Moses - left to spin classical and galavant with the geezers.
Poor Moses - left to spin classical and galavant with the geezers.
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...while Ivan destroys the empire he built.
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Swamp Thing
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The past few mornings on BT, I've noted yellow-jacketed private security guards peering through the Queen St. windows at Kevin and Dina's backs, scowling and checking their watches.
Now I know why!
paraone
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I think you have that a tad backwards, CTV has managed to let the brands basically live as they did before the take over, sure there are programming changes as some of the properties didnt make the move and needed to be replaced with CTV's content. but for the most part CTV has improved on some of the Chum brands. Rogers on the other hand has managed to degrade the city brand into a hodge-podge of crap that doesn't even speak the language of the brand focus.
And Chum did a good job of screwing up Moses vision long before CTV ever bought them.
And this whole CTV hates Rogers and is being hostile to get them out faster is just silly. Sure CTV wants the space but do you guys have any idea the rent being paid right now to CTV? Also lets remember that Rogers was a tenant at the CTV Agincourt studios for years without incident