Rogers Communications
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| Type | Public (TSX: RCI.A, TSX: RCI.B, NYSE: RG) |
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| Founded | Toronto, Ontario (1920) |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Key people | Ted Rogers - President & CEO |
| Products | Cable TV, Wireless, Telecommunications, Publishing, Broadcasting, Rogers Blue Jays Baseball Partnership |
| Revenue |  $7.48 billion CAN |
| Operating income | $2.1 billion CAN |
| Employees | 18,057 (2004) |
| Website | www.rogers.com |
Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX: RCI.A, TSX: RCI.B, NYSE: RG) is one of Canada's largest communications companies, particularly in the field of wireless communications and cable television, with additional telecommunications and mass media assets. Edward S. "Ted" Rogers is the company's well-known controlling shareholder and chief executive.
The company considers its history to date back to the Rogers Vacuum Tube Company founded by Edward S. Rogers, Sr.. However, the current company's history dates back to the formation of Aldred-Rogers Broadcasting (originally co-owned with Joel Aldred), which acquired CHFI-FM in 1960 and helped launch CFTO-TV in 1961.
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[edit] Divisions
[edit] Rogers Wireless
Rogers Wireless is Canada's largest wireless communications services provider, under the Rogers and Fido brand names, with 6.2 million voice and data subscribers, and now the sole Canadian operator of a GSM-based network. The unit was previously known as Cantel, Cantel AT&T, and Rogers AT&T Wireless (U.S. firm AT&T Wireless was a large shareholder for a time).
[edit] Rogers Cable Inc.
Rogers Cable Inc. is Canada's largest cable television service provider with approximately 2.3 million customers in southern Ontario (90% of customers), New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador. Its growing digital cable service provides access to technologies such as high definition television, video on demand, interactive television and enhanced television. Rogers also provides broadband Internet access (Rogers Hi-Speed Internet), co-marketed with Yahoo!, and operates Rogers Video, Canada's largest domestically owned chain of video stores, with over 300 locations from coast to coast. Members of Rogers Cable also get access to Rogers Television and Télévision Rogers, a volunteer based local television channel. This unit was created in 1967.
[edit] Rogers Telecom
Rogers Telecom (formerly Call-Net Enterprises which did business under the Sprint Canada brand) is a major competitive telephone carrier throughout Canada, best known for its local and long distance consumer and business services and solutions. Since acquiring Call-Net, Rogers has also entered into the lucrative residential phone business within its cable TV territory under the Rogers Home Phone brand, to challenge Bell Canada, using both traditional and VoIP technologies.
[edit] Rogers Media
Rogers Media owns 46 radio stations and television broadcasting, consumer and trade publishing, a televised home shopping service and operates the Toronto Blue Jays and the team's home stadium, the Rogers Centre.
[edit] Publishing
Rogers publishes more than 70 consumer magazines and trade and professional publications and directories in Canada, including Maclean's, Canada's weekly newsmagazine; its French-language equivalent, L'actualité; Chatelaine; Flare; and a variety of other magazines and their companion web sites. The publishing arm was once part of the Maclean Hunter Publishing empire.
[edit] Broadcasting
Rogers Broadcasting operates 46 Canadian radio stations, (36 FM and 10 AM radio stations) including three FM stations launched in the Maritimes in October 2005; OMNI Television, which operates two multicultural television stations in Ontario (OMNI.1 and OMNI.2) and two spiritually-themed television stations, one in Vancouver (OMNI.10) acquired in June 2005 that also airs in Victoria and the other in Winnipeg (OMNI.11); Rogers Sportsnet, a specialty sports television service licensed to provide regional sports programming across Canada; The Shopping Channel, Canada's only nationally televised shopping service and the The Biography Channel Canada, acquired outright in August 2006 when Rogers bought out the 40% stake owned by Calgary's Shaw Communications and A&E Television Networks' 20% ownership.
Rogers also is a partner in CPAC, OLN, TVtropolis and is a two-thirds owner of G4techTV Canada with Comcast. It holds a minority interest in Viewers Choice as well.
Some of the better known radio outlets are CHFI Toronto, CJCL Toronto (The FAN 590), CFTR Toronto (680 News), and various stations operating under the Jack FM brand. In summer 2006, Rogers acquired five stations from OK Radio in Alberta and, with regulatory approval, will be operating in Edmonton, Fort McMurray and Grande Prairie. Existing clusters of stations are in Vancouver-Victoria-Whistler, Calgary-Lethbridge, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Kitchener and Halifax-Moncton-Saint John, NB.
[edit] Sports
In addition to its ownership of Sportsnet, acquired from CTV, Rogers operates the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team and the Rogers Centre (previously known as SkyDome). Through Rogers Sportsnet, Media also holds a 50% ownership in Dome Productions, a mobile production and distribution joint venture that is a leader in high-definition television production and broadcasting in Canada.
[edit] Corporate governance
Current members of the board of directors of Rogers Communications are: Ronald Besse, Charles Birchall, H. Garfield Emerson, Peter Godsoe, Thomas Hull, Philip Lind, Nadir Mohamed, David Peterson, Ted Rogers, Edward Rogers III, Loretta Rogers, Melinda Rogers, William Schleyer, John A. Tory, J. Christopher Wansbrough, and Colin Watson.
- Chairman of the Board: H. Garfield Emerson
- President and CEO, Rogers Communications Inc.: Ted Rogers
- President of Rogers Shared Operations and CIO, Rogers Communications Inc.: Ronan McGrath
- President and COO, Rogers Communications division: Nadir Mohamed
- President, Rogers Wireless: Robert Bruce
- President, Rogers Cable: Edward Rogers III
- President, Rogers Media: Anthony P. Viner
- President, Rogers Publishing (division of Rogers Media): Brian Segal
[edit] Project Cleanfeed Canada
In November 2006, to address the problem of the access and proliferation of pornography sites, especially by those under the age of majority, Rogers, Bell Aliant, Bell Canada, MTS Allstream, Shaw, SaskTel, Telus, and Videotron, in conjunction with cybertip.ca (a nationwide tipline for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children), announced the creation of Project Cleanfeed Canada, an initiative designed to block access to hundreds of pornography sites. However, some critics denounce the initiative, saying that this amounts to nothing more than internet censorship. [1]
[edit] Fleet services
Rogers' fleet of vehicles are operated under Rogers Cable:
- GMC Savana vans
- Ford E250 and E350 vans
- GMC Vandura vans
- Chevrolet Uplander
- Dodge Caravan
[edit] Contractors
Rogers contracts out repair services for its cable operations to numerous local agents:
- Trinity Cable TV Limited - Toronto
- Mastec - Ottawa
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Rogers Communications Website
- Rogers Plus
- Yahoo! - Rogers Communications Inc. Company Profile
- CRTC chart of Rogers Communications' assets
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