Daytime talk show Cityline will be ending its run this week after 40 years of giving health, lifestyle, home and fashion tips to Canadian viewers. Citytv, a television network operating under parent company Rogers Sports & Media, is cancelling the show with a farewell episode airing on Friday.
Tracy Moore, who has hosted the show since 2008, confirmed the news in a candid video on her Instagram, noting that Citytv will be launching a live, hour-long national lifestyle show with very similar content to Cityline that Moore will be hosting as part of Breakfast Television.
Moore suggested the cancellation was partly due to changing viewership patterns. “For the last decade, the focus has shifted to new ways viewers consume content, with phones in hand and an endless list of streaming providers. Our habits have changed; TV is seeing a major evolution,” she said.
Just last week, Cityline was celebrating 40 years of the show — which began in 1984 with host Dini Petty and was followed by Marilyn Denis, who hosted from 1989 to 2008. Moore had Denis back on the show last week as part of the 40-year celebrations.
Comments flooded in from friends and followers on Moore’s Instagram post, including Sangita Patel, who wrote, “How I feel your feelings about losing something you are so passionate about as Is felt during the end of ET Canada (this industry). You have a gift like no other and with hosting a new live hour show we get to continue to see the power of Tracy.”
ET Canada was abruptly cancelled in September 2023, and parent company Corus attributed the cancellation to “the costs of producing a daily entertainment newsmagazine show in a challenging advertising environment” at the time.Â
Meredith Shaw, current co-host of Breakfast Television, wrote: “I love you and your entire team. I echo your feelings of both heartbreak and excitement and I know that what you create next will be honest, powerful and full of heart… bc [sic] that’s just what you do. BT is very lucky. [B]ig big cheers to the entire Cityline team for 40 years.”
The Social’s Jessica Allen wrote, “You’re the kind of light we will follow anywhere.”
Former Breakfast Television host Dina Pugliese posted a tribute to Moore and Cityline on her own Instagram page, writing that her first official on-air gig was at a network with Moore over 20 years ago and that her first TV appearance was on Cityline. “Cityline will be forever celebrated in the Canadian history books. It is a show that inspired, connected, educated and entertained,” she wrote.
Moore said more details will be shared about the new Breakfast Television show in the coming months. “It will be a fifth, live hour of this award winning show from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. starting in September,” she said. “This new evolution that is being created will include the same groundbreaking conversations we’ve spearheaded on Cityline, the same tips and tricks to live your best life, and most importantly the same warmth I’ve offered our viewers for the past 15-plus years.”
“Do I love Cityline? Always and forever. Am I a little heartbroken? Absolutely. Am I excited for what we can make next? Yes, I am,” she said, noting in the caption that she’s grateful for the chance to “build on Cityline’s legacy.”