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JR Shaw headed to OAB Hall of Fame



MARKHAM, ON – Shaw Communications founder JR Shaw will receive the 2013 Hall of Fame Award from the Ontario Association of Broadcasters at the organization’s fall conference in November.

A Board nominated honour, the OAB Hall of Fame is presented to individuals who spent most of their careers working for private broadcasters and demonstrated a commitment to the highest standards of broadcast excellence.

Shaw founded Capital Cable TV in 1966, a start-up cable television provider in Edmonton Alberta, which eventually blossomed into Shaw Communications Inc., a diversified communications company whose core business is providing broadband cable television, high-speed internet, digital phone, telecommunications services, (Shaw Business) and satellite direct-to-home services (Shaw Direct) to 3.1 million customers.  He also founded, and his family remains active in, Corus Entertainment which was spun off from Shaw as a separate public entity on September 1, 1999.

In addition, Shaw has served on the Board of Directors and Strategic Planning Committee for the Canadian Cable Television Association (CCTA), is the past Chair of the Board of Governors of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in Edmonton, and serves as President and Director of the Shaw Foundation, a philanthropic organization established in 1970 by his father Francis E. Shaw.

Born in Brigden, ON in 1934, JR and his wife Carol have four children – Jim, Heather, Julie and Brad – twelve grandchildren and four step grandchildren.  All of their children are actively involved in ongoing Shaw business operations.  Since 1995, JR and Carol have lived in Calgary, Alberta.

JR Shaw will be presented with the 2013 Hall of Fame Award at the Ontario Association of Broadcasters' Connection 2013 Gala Awards Dinner on November 7 at the Toronto Airport Marriott Hotel in Toronto.

For details and ticket information, visit www.oab.ca