Citytv.com Canada's first Primetime Video iPad App - Hits #1 on iTunes
Canada

TORONTO, Sept. 28 /CNW/ - Rogers Media announced today that the free Citytv.com app that launched only yesterday on iTunes Canada has resonated with Canadians and currently holds the #1 spot for free iPad apps available in Canada.  The new Citytv Video app for iPad, Canada's first and only TV broadcaster Video app, features shows from its primetime broadcast schedule along with CityLine and Breakfast Television Toronto. 

"Landing the top spot on iTunes Canada for iPad downloads, clearly confirms that audiences want access to content on multiple screens at their convenience," says Claude Galipeau, SVP & GM, Digital Media, Rogers Media Inc.  "This overwhelming response by Canadians validates Rogers strategy and its leadership of providing new entertainment solutions for audiences."

The app gives Citytv fans the ability to catch up on full-length television programs and clips on their iPad. The Citytv app also includes a number of convenient features, such as a TV schedule and a notification service that allows users to be reminded when their favourite shows are available on the app and on TV. Other features include the ability to share video links on Facebook, Twitter and via email. The app also saves your viewing history and favourites.

Citytv™ television stations in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg offer viewers intensely-local, urban-oriented, culturally-diverse television programming. A distinct alternative to other conventional television stations, Citytv 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. Citytv 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 Citytv stations and programming, visit www.Citytv.com

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Media Contact:

Andrea Gagliardi
Rogers Digital Media
416.764.3249
[email protected]