- 35 Dundas Street East
35 Dundas Street East is an office building in
Downtown Toronto ,Ontario ,Canada . First built in 2004, the building was initially home toOlympic Spirit Toronto , an Olympic-themed entertainment attraction until 2006. The building was recently acquired byRogers Communications as the new home of its threebroadcast television stations and one radio station in the city.The building is located east of
Yonge Street onDundas Square , near theToronto Eaton Centre andToronto Life Square .Rogers Communications
On
October 22 ,2007 ,Rogers Media , the new owners ofCitytv , announced an agreement to purchase the building to house its Toronto television stationsCITY-TV ,CFMT-TV andCJMT-TV as well as The FAN 590, a radio station. Rogers Media's $375 million purchase of Citytv in June 2007 came after theCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) orderedCTVglobemedia to sell the Citytv stations as part of a $1.4 billion takeover ofCHUM Limited .The former CHUM-owned television channels now owned by CTV, such as
CablePulse 24 ,MuchMusic ,MuchMoreMusic ,Star! ,Bravo! and Space, will remain at299 Queen Street West .Rogers Media's headquarters, where
The Biography Channel Canada andG4techTV Canada are based, will remain at theCFMT Building at Bathurst and Fleet Streets. The Rogers Communications headquarters (where the other radio stations will remain) are based at the Rogers Building at Bloor and Jarvis Streets. [ [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071023.wcity23/BNStory/National/ "CITY-TV gets a new Toronto home"] , by Matt Hartley, The Globe and Mail,October 23 2007 . ] [ [http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_16005.aspx "Citytv Announces Location For New Home: Right in the Heart of Toronto"] , CityNews,October 22 2007 . ] [ [http://www.thestar.com/article/269424 "Dundas Square new home of Citytv"] , by Rita Trichur, The Toronto Star,October 23 2007 . ]The company's Toronto television stations as well as The FAN are expected to move in by March 2009. [ [http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_18503.aspx "Preview Citytv's New Home"] , CityNews.ca,
January 11 ,2008 . ] As of March 2008, the building has a large banner on it featuring the Citytv and OMNI Television logos as well as advertising posters for Citytv and OMNI Television.References
External links
* [http://www.olympicspirit.org/toronto Olympic Spirit Toronto]
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