TORONTO – The tributes to Ted Rogers continue to roll in.
Today, Shan Chandrasekar, president and CEO of Asian Television Network International (ATN), released a statement paying tribute to the late cable giant who will be laid to rest in Toronto Tuesday.
"Mr. Rogers was a visionary, a trail blazer and was one among the first entrepreneurs to understand the importance of Canadian multiculturalism," he said. "Long before CFMT was launched, Ted Rogers was the first cable operator to offer community programming in numerous languages. He has been a pioneer and a role model. Because of (his) vision of consumer choice and diversity, multicultural communities in parts of Canada have a rich legacy of Canadian programming in their mother tongues."
Calling Rogers “the father of Canadian multicultural television,” Chandrasekar began his own broadcasting career programming a South Asian television show in Toronto on a Rogers’ community cable channel in the early 1970s.
