Producer and veteran broadcaster to oversee all in-house, locally-produced content for City Montreal
Includes network's new, flagship, weekday morning show, Breakfast Television
and weekly sports show, Connected Montreal
TORONTO (January 28, 2013)Today, Rogers Media announced Bob Babinski as the new Executive Producer & Local Content Manager for City Montreal, overseeing City's new, local weekday morning show, Breakfast Television and new, 30-minute weekly sports show, Connected Montreal.
Born and raised in Montreal, Babinski comes to City with more than 25 years of television experience both on-camera and behind-the-scenes. As a former sportscaster for CBC Television and CBC Radio in Montreal, he's covered the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Expos, and such events as Hockey Day in Canada, the 2006 and 2008 Olympic Games, and the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. Babinski also worked for several years as a freelance trainer, helping more than 300 reporters and hosts hone their skills on live reporting and on-air presence. For more than a decade, Babinski has taught journalism students at Concordia University, and continues to teach part-time at the university in broadcast, writing, reporting, and feature writing.
As Rogers Media expands our premium brands into this dynamic, creative and eclectic market, Bob's connection to Montreal, coupled with his wide-ranging expertise as a producer and broadcaster, will strengthen our ability develop and deliver engaging local programming to this community, said Scott Moore, President, Broadcast, Rogers Media.
Slated to launch summer 2013, Breakfast Television on City Montreal will be modeled on the highly successful morning shows in Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Calgary, and Edmontonbut will have a distinctly Montreal format. In sports, Connected Montreal is a regionally focused extension of Sportsnets national Connected brand, and will be dedicated to covering the best in professional, amateur, university, and junior league sports in the Greater Montreal area. Connected Montreal is scheduled to launch later this year with further details to be announced in the coming weeks.
City Montreal launches on Monday, Feb. 4, carrying the rich City daytime and prime-time schedule with home-grown hits and acquired series Canadians have come to love, including How I Met Your Mother, Person of Interest, New Girl, Revolution, Revenge, Cityline Canada's longest-running lifestyle show for women and the upcoming City original comedies Seed, Package Deal, and newly announced animated comedy, Mother Up!.
City Montreal will produce and deliver 15.5 hours of original local programming and will add more than 20 new production jobs in the Montreal market.
About City
City television stations in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Saskatchewan offer viewers intensely-local, urban-oriented, culturally-diverse television programming.A distinct alternative to other conventional television stations, City engages its viewers with dynamic on-air personalities and delivers an entertaining mix of news, local-interactive formats such as: Breakfast Television and Cityline; as well as local Canadian and US acquired prime time entertainment programming.City is a part of Rogers Broadcasting Limited, a division of Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX: RCI and NYSE: RCI) which is a diversified Canadian communications and media company. For more information on City stations and programming, visit Citytv.com.
Media Contacts:
Charmaine Khan, City, 416.764.3071, Charmaine.khan@rci.rogers.com
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Producer and veteran broadcaster to oversee all in-house, locally-produced content for City Montreal 
