TORONTO – Rogers Communications CEO Ted Rogers was admitted to hospital Friday afternoon and company executives have remained tight-lipped on the prognosis for company’s visionary founder.
He is being treated for “an existing cardiac condition,” said the press release late Friday afternoon. Rogers has temporarily relinquished his responsibilities as the company’s CEO to board chairman and former company CFO Alan Horn.
“The length of Mr. Rogers’ leave will be determined by his overall health and medical progress,” said the short release. It didn’t identify the hospital in which he is staying.
Rogers, 75, has a long history of ill health, beginning with a heart attack in his 50s, which led to a quadruple bypass operation. Of late, he has needed the help of a wheelchair to get around.
Rogers’ health was top-of-mind this morning at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters annual convention in Ottawa, too. While the company is best known as a wireless and cable powerhouse, Rogers has long said he is a broadcaster at heart, since his first foray into the business was with the purchase of FM radio station CHFI in 1960.
“I’m told he’s doing better,” CAB president and CEO Glenn O’Farrell said to delegates Monday morning. “We wish him the best of health and a full and speedy recovery.
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