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...