Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI) (TSX: RCI.NV.B) (TSX: RCI.MV.A) (NYSE: RG) is Canada's largest cable television service provider with approximately 2.2 million customers in southern Ontario (90% of customers), New Brunswick and Newfoundland. Rogers offers cable television, digital cable and high definition television, video on demand, broadband Internet access, interactive television and enhanced television. Rogers Cable also operates Rogers Video, Canada's largest domestically owned chain of video stores. Rogers Cable Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc and operates over 270 locations coast to coast.
Through Rogers Wireless, the corporation offer wireless communications services and is the largest wireless provider in Canada with 5.3 million voice and data subscribers.
Rogers owns Toronto's multicultural television stations, CFMT and CJMT They also own G4techTV Canada and produce Call for Help 2.0 & Gadgets & Gizmos.
Through Rogers Media, it publishes Maclean's, Canada's weekly newsmagazine, L'Actualité magazine, Chatelaine, Flare and a variety of other magazines & radio stations. The media arm also owns The Shopping Channel and the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team and the Rogers Centre (previously known as SkyDome).
On May 11, 2005, Rogers Communications Inc. and Call-Net Enterprises Incorporated jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which RCI will acquire 100% of Call-Net, the parent company of Sprint Canada, in a share for share transaction under a plan of arrangement ([1]). If successful, the deal would allow Rogers to enter the lucrative residential phone business and challenge Bell Canada.
Management
- CEO: Edward Rogers