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The CHUM-City Building is the main studio complex of CTVglobemedia (CTVgm) in downtown Toronto , Canada . It previously served as the headquarters of CHUM Television , which CTVgm acquired in 2007. It is located at 299 Queen Street West at the intersection of John Street . With its 1914 Neo-Gothic Terra Cotta facade, the building is one of the most recognizable in the Queen Street West neighbourhood. The building houses various CTVgm-owned media outlets previously owned by CHUM, such as CablePulse 24 , MuchMusic , Star! , and FashionTelevisionChannel . (CTVgm's primary headquarters, where CTV Toronto , and other channels such as TSN , The Comedy Network and Business News Network (BNN) are based, remain at the 9 Channel Nine Court in Scarborough near Highway 401 and McCowan Road.) In addition to these CTVgm-owned outlets, the building also houses the studios of Citytv Toronto , the former flagship of the CHUM group of television stations. The Canadian Radio-television And Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) ordered that CTVgm could not retain ownership of the Citytv stations across Canada, as they already own CTV affiliates in the same markets, so they have been sold to Rogers Media (pending CRTC approval). The Citytv signage has been removed from the building, but the station itself is expected to remain at its present location as a tenant of CTVgm until at least mid-2010 as Citytv is looking for a new studio location. CTVgm has also suggested that BNN may move into the building when Citytv's move out has been completed. The CP24 station's studios will most likely to be relocated at 9 Channel Nine Court in Scarborough when BNN's move has been completed. Since the CTVgm takeover, several broadcasts from various CTVgm channels have referred to the building as the MuchMusic World Headquarters, avoiding reference to either CHUM Limited or Citytv, however, many of the CTVglobemedia channels websites, such as Muchmusic and Bravo, refer the building as the '''CTVglobemedia Building''' {Link without Title} . No official name change has yet been announced. HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE The five-storey building was originally constructed as the headquarters of the Methodist Church Of Canada in 1913 by Burke, Horwood And White . The Methodists joined with two other denominations to form the United Church Of Canada in 1925. The building served as the United Church's headquarters until 1959 . By this time the Ryerson Press , originally the publishing arm of the Methodist Church, had grown to occupy the entire building. The building was purchased by CHUM in 1985 , and was re-opened in May 1987 as the new headquarters for the company and its various outlets. (Citytv Toronto's previous studio was located at 99 Queen St. East.) The building's east wall is decorated with an actual older style Citytv news truck seemingly bursting out of the building. The front tires of the truck can be seen spinning. CTVGlobemedia has decided the truck to say where it is but the old CityPulse logo will be replaced with a CP24 logo and the LiveEye logos on the truck will be replaced by "Breaking News" logos. On the northwest corner is the '' Speakers' Corner '' videobooth, where for a Dollar anyone can record two minutes of oneself. Citytv says it receives over 50 hours of video per week, which its staff edits into short vignettes and a half-hour show. Speakers Corner has since been relocated to inside the MuchMusic store, located next-door to the east. Tours of the facilities are also held regularly. While the outside facade has been restored and remains intact, the building interior has been modernized into one of the world's most innovative media complexes. CHUM-City has no TV studios: the entire building has been rigged for audio and video. The building has been engineered so that public space, working areas, offices, and even the parking lot may all be used as optimal shoot locations. Many television shows produced by the various outlets operating our of the building, such as '' Breakfast Television '', '' CityLine '' and the former '' Electric Circus '', are filmed live on the ground floor. The ground floor features giant glass sliding partitions so that the building can be open to the street. The annual MuchMusic Video Awards show is held as a street party that takes place in the CHUM-City parking lot, rooftop, as well as Queen and John Streets adjacent to the building. Most recently, the CHUM-City Building had been the national broadcast headquarters for the Live Earth Concerts to Canada, which collaborate several CTVgm-owned media outlets, CTV, MuchMusic , MuchMoreMusic , MuchVibe , Bravo! , Star! , and personalities to broadcast the live event nationally for 28 hours. From September 6-15, 2007, the CHUM-City Building will become CTV's Festival Headquarters which will have multi-platform coverage of the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival . CTV's Festival Headquarters will act as the launching pad of red carpet coverage, galas, film parties, film premieres, festival breaking news, and much more, which will be collaborated by various CTV assets, ETalk , Star! , MuchMusic , MTV , Bravo! , Fashion Television Channel , Canada AM , and select personalities. Also, CTV's Festival Headquarters will host several festival events and parties, including The 2007 ETalk Star! Schmooze broadcast live on September 7, 2007 to Canadians coast-to-coast on Star! and re-broadcasted on CTV . REFERENCES
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