CITY-tv Toronto finally on the move?

Rogers Media have confirmed that the renovations of its new studio space adjacent to Yonge-Dundas Square are finally substantially complete and that CITY-tv and OMNI 1/2 will be moving to take up occupancy sometime in July. The move was originally announced back in October 2007. CITY has resided at 299 Queen St W for the better part of the last 20 years. I'm sure CTV will be glad to gain the reclaim the space CITY vacates back at Yonge & Richmond for its cable specialty networks (like MuchMusic, Bravo! and GTA news outlet CP24! The new space at Yonge-Victoria is approximately 43,000 square feet

Summer reality TV series ratings

Summer is peak period for the major US networks to introduce original non-fiction series to replace re-runs of their usual Fall-Winter fictional series lineups. Here is how the Summer reality series that have debuted so far have fared last week (ending June 8) with audiences (ranked on viewership levels based on the Nielson ratings). The first set of ratings data is for all viewers and the second is for the key demo.

So You Think You Can Dance (Fox) – Wednesday 8 p.m. (two hours)

Viewers: 8.69 million (#11), A18-49: 3.3/10 (#6t)

So You Think You Can Dance (Fox) – Thursday 9 p.m.

Viewers: 8.65 million (#12), A18-49: 3.3/ 9 (#6t)

Wipeout (ABC) - Wednesday 8 p.m. (two hours)

Viewers: 8.49 million (#13), A18-49: 3.0/ 9 (#8)

The Bachelorette (ABC) – Monday 8 p.m. (two hours)

Viewers: 7.19 million (#20), A18-49: 2.5/ 7 (#11)

I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! (NBC) – Monday 8 p.m.

Viewers: 5.27 million (#34), A18-49: 2.1/ 6 (#13t)

I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! (NBC) – Thursday 8 p.m.

Viewers: 5.17 million (#35), A18-49: 1.8/ 6 (#25t)

I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! (NBC) – Wednesday 8 p.m. (two hours)

Viewers: 4.76 million (#42), A18-49: 1.8/ 5 (#25t)

Here Come the Newlyweds (ABC) – Monday 10 p.m.

Viewers: 4.60 million (#45), A18-49: 1.9/ 5 (#20t)

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Game Show Award winners

The first annual Game Show Awards, honoring classic and modern game shows, were presented on Saturday, June 6. The ceremony was telecast on GSN.

Winners included:

Best Game Show: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

Best Game Show Host: Howie Mandel

Favorite Classic Game Show: Match Game

Best Reality Competition: Dancing With the Stars

Favorite Dating/Relationship Show: The Newlywed Game

Favorite Game Show Theme Song: Jeopardy

Favorite Parting Gift: Turtle Wax

Favorite DVD Interactive Game: Deal or No Deal

2009 TCA Nominations

Clues to potential Emmy nominees: Here are the recently announced 2008-9 TV season nominees for the Television Critics Association (TCA) Awards. Winners will be selected by the association’s 200-plus membership of critics and journalists across the country and will announced in a Pasadena, California ceremony on Saturday, August 1. :

PROGRAM OF THE YEAR

Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi Channel)
Lost (ABC)
Mad Men (AMC)
Saturday Night Live (NBC)
The Shield (FX)

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY

30 Rock (NBC)
The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
The Office (NBC)

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA

Breaking Bad (AMC)
Friday Night Lights (NBC/DirecTV)
Lost (ABC)
Mad Men (AMC)
The Shield (FX)

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT MOVIES, MINI-SERIES AND SPECIALS

2008 Summer Olympic Coverage (NBC)
24: Redemption (Fox)
Generation Kill (HBO)
Grey Gardens (HBO)
Taking Chance (HBO)
United States of Tara (Showtime)

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY

Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)
Steve Carell (The Office)
Tina Fey (30 Rock)
Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother)
Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory)

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMA

Glenn Close (Damages)
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
Walton Goggins (The Shield)
Jon Hamm (Mad Men)
Hugh Laurie (House)

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING

Camp Rock (The Disney Channel)
The Electric Company (PBS)
Nick News (Nickelodeon)
Sid the Science Kid (PBS)
Yo Gabba Gabba (Nickelodeon)

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN NEWS & INFORMATION

60 Minutes (CBS)
The Alzheimer’s Project (HBO)
Frontline (PBS)
The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)
We Shall Remain (PBS)

ctvglobemedia announce CTV and" A" Channel Fall schedules

Stable CTV is only importing one new series: the Thursday-night drama The Vampire Diaries. Dancing with the Stars will also be returning to the network (although its most recent season was not simulcast) and America's Next Top Model will be aired on the main network for the first time.

Meanwhile. second network "A" Channel, which saw significant ratings growth under CTV ownership in the past year (overtaking Roger's CITY-tv and Canwest's E!) announced the acquisition of 4 new ABC series: the Thursday night series "Flash Forward"; Wednesday night sitcoms "Hank" and "The Middle"; plus Wednesday Night's "Eastwick". "A" has also licensed "The Beautiful Life".

Established series returning to CTV are:

Grey’s Anatomy
CSI
CSI: New York
CSI: Miami
The Mentalist
The Amazing Race
Criminal Minds
Desperate Housewives
Law & Order: SVU
Flashpoint

Established series returning to "A" channel are:

Two And A Half Men
Big Bang Theory
Fringe
Private Practice
Medium
Law & Order
Gossip Girl
Castle

"A" channel will also pick up the next season of FOX's (relocated to fall) So You Think You Can Dance; whereas CTV continues to air the Canadian version.

CTV stressed their strong programming commitment to secondary network A Channel was only a one year reprieve as the heavy investment in highly rated US series to simulcast has not translated into advertising revenue. CTV owns "A" Channel stations in Barrie, London, Ottawa, Windsor, Wingham and Victoria.

Global's Fall schedule announced

Canwest announced Global's new fall schedule earlier this week. Their new prime time series acquisitions focused on well-know names. They have secured NCIS spin-off series NCIS: Los Angeles (to be simulcast with CBS) and animated Family Guy spin-off series The Cleveland Show (to be simulcast with FOX). The have also purchased Melrose Place, a series name familiar to 90-s Tv viewers. Also they have acquired a new drama "The Good Wife". Among the riskier acquisitions are the FOX musical comedy "Glee", whose ratings disappointed in a special post American Idol preview timeslot airing last month.

Returning established series include:

"House" (Season 6) ,
"Lie to Me"(Season 2),
"NCIS" (Season 7),
"Bones"(Season 5),
"The Office"(Season 6),
"Survivor: Samoa" (Season 19),
"Heroes"(Season 4) ,
"Brothers & Sisters"(Season 4) ,
"Family Guy"(Season 10),
"King of the Hill" (Season 13),
"American Dad" (Season 6),
"The Simpsons"(Season 21),
"Numb3rs" (Season 6)
"Dollhouse" (Season 2) .

Canwest did not announce anything with respect to troubled secondary network E!'s fall schedule. CITY TV earlier announced that they had successfully conducted a raid on many series previously airing on that network. Canwest operates "E!" stations in Victoria, Kelowna, Red Deer, Hamilton and Montreal. There have been rumours of some interested buyers for the Hamilton station but its possible the mini-network could close down by Fall.

Toronto's favourite radio stations

The following is a recently published list of radio listenership (ranked by average share of audience (aged 12 and older)) between the hours of 5 AM and 1 AM, in the Toronto market (with a population of 4.8 million)



Station Market Share % CC "reach"(000) FC "reach"(000)

CBC Radio One 99.1 10.0 685.8 1,114.4
CHFI FM 98 9.2 744.8 901.6
CHUM FM 104.5 8.1 987.1 1,291.9
Q-107 Classic Rock 6.3 687.9 1,008.2
680 News 6.1 1,164.4 1,389.7
Newstalk 1010 CFRB 5.6 458.3 593.7
NEW 97.3 EZ Rock 5.4 578.9 648.0
Classical 96.3 5.1 384.8 489.7
Z 103.5 4.6 645.8 853.3
Virgin Radio 99.9 4.4 726.0 1,004.1
102.1 FM The Edge 3.8 507.5 812.1
Zoomer Radio AM 740 3.1 241.6 411.1
FLOW 93.5 2.4 358.3 385.9
JAZZ FM 91 2.2 220.2 278.1
The FAN 590 2.1 286.9 428.9
CBC Radio Two 1.9 228.8 78.1
AM 640 1.9 252.5 349.7
92.5 JACK FM 1.8 314.0 370.0
102.9 K-LITE FM 1.3 107.0 139.0
CP24 Radio 1050 0.6 120.7 150.5
Radio Canada Première Chaîne 0.1 21.2 26.2
Radio-Canada Espace Musique 0.2 26.0 34.0

Share - Within the central market area, the estimated total hours tuned to that station expressed as a percentage of total hours tuned to all radio.

Central (Ctrl) Reach - The estimated number of different people, within the central market area, who tuned to that station for at least one quarter hour during the week.

Full Coverage (FC) Reach - The estimated number of different people, anywhere in Canada, who tuned to that station for at least one quarter hour during the week.

CITY tv FALL Schedule

Rogers Media Television today announced aggressive US program acquisitions for its “CITY tv” branded mini network. The network includes affiliated stations in major urban centres such as Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg. Rogers previously acquired the CITY stations from ctvglobemedia following the latter’s acquisition of the CHUM-City group, when the CRTC ordered CTV to divest itself of its CITY holdings as a precondition for approving the deal. The new Fall line-up will include returning US series that previously aired on other Canadian carriers as well as new series acquisitions.

All tolled CITY tv's line up this Fall will include an unprecedented 16 hours of US network simulcasts across the 22 prime time hours. CITY’s biggest US program supplier will be NBC. Many of the returning series previously held by other Canadian carriers have been bought away from troubled Canwest’s second network E!

Among the returning US network series taken away from other Canadian carriers are:

EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION - Season 7 (simulcast with ABC, take-away from E!)
THE BIGGEST LOSER - Season 8 (simulcast with NBC, take-away from E!)
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER - Season 5 (simulcast with CBS, take-away from E!)
SUPERNANNY - Season 6 (simulcast with ABC, take-away from “A” channel)

Among the new series acquisitions are:

THE JAY LENO SHOW (simulcast with NBC)

Dramas

TRAUMA (simulcast with NBC)
PARENTHOOD (simulcast with NBC)

Comedies

COMMUNITY (simulcast with NBC)
ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE (simulcast with CBS)
COUGAR TOWN (simulcast with ABC)
MODERN FAMILY (simulcast with ABC)

Among the US series returning in the Fall are:

NFL FOOTBALL (simulcast with NBC)
30 ROCK Season 4 (simulcast with NBC)
UGLY BETTY Season 4 (simulcast with ABC)
PARKS AND RECREATION Season 2 (simulcast with NBC)
BETTER OFF TED Season 2 (simulcast with NBC)

Among the US series returning mid-season are:

THE BACHELOR - Season 14 (simulcast with ABC)
SCRUBS - Season 9 (simulcast with ABC)
CHUCK – Season 3 (simulcast with NBC)

America's favourite major TV networks

Here are the final 2008-09 traditional season Neilson prime-time ratings averages by network:

Households:

CBS: 7.3 rating/12 share (+ 9 percent),
Fox: 5.8/ 9 (-12),
ABC: 5.7/ 9 (- 5),
NBC: 4.8/ 8 (- 8),
CW: 1.3/ 2 (-24)

Total Viewers:

CBS: 11.76 million (+11),
Fox: 9.80 (-13),
ABC: 8.95 (- 3),
NBC: 7.84 (- 3),
CW: 2.03 (-22)

Adults 18-49:

Fox: 3.6 rating/10 share (-16),
CBS: 3.1/ 8 (+ 3),
ABC: 2.9/ 8 (- 3),
NBC: 2.8/ 7 (no change),
CW: 0.9/ 2 (-18)

Adults 25-54:

CBS: 4.1/10 (+ 8),
Fox: 4.1/10 (-13),
ABC: 3.4/ 8 (- 6),
NBC: 3.2/ 8 (- 3),
CW: 0.8/ 2 (-20)

Adults 18-34:

Fox: 3.2/10 (-16),
ABC: 2.4/ 7 (no change),
NBC: 2.3/ 7 (no change),
CBS: 2.1/ 6 (+ 5),
CW: 1.0/ 3 (- 9)

Source: Nielsen Media Research data