Citytv is Toronto's groundbreaking, rule-breaking homegrown TV phenom. They've come up with some very innovative bits of programming over the years, but my favorite to date is Bob Hunter's daily editorial on the Breakfast Television morning show.
Bob Hunter is the co-founder of Greenpeace, and he's been a fixture in Canadian political commentary for years now — indeed, he's the environmental reporter on Citytv's 24-hour news-channel.
On Breakfast Television we get a very different Bob Hunter. What the network does is send a camera crew to Hunter's home every morning at about 7AM, where he is sat at his kitchen table in his bathrobe, with all the day's newspapers spread out before him. Hunter's been up long genough to have gone through the Star, the Goble, the Post — possibly even the Sun — and he's marked up the interesting bits wiht a highlighter.
When the news-anchor cuts to the remote feed from Hunter's kitchen, he takes us on a guided tour of the day's news, taking apart and contrasting the reportage from the different news-organs. This is blogging, plain and simple, but it's on live television. And it's interesting as hell.
If you're coming to Toronto for the WorldCon, switch on your hotel-room TV one morning and give it a watch. It's pretty hot stuff.
