Cable / Telecom News

Rogers trips up own team

GATINEAU – The messages Rogers Communications executives were trying to get across to CRTC commissioners this morning were obscured a little by an unexpected source: company founder Ted Rogers. Rogers strayed a little from the themes the others on his panel were trying to get across to Commissioners Michel Morin. Ron Williams, Len Katz, Michel Arpin, Rita Cugini and chairman Konrad von Finckenstein on the opening of day one of the hearings into the policies governing broadcast distribution undertakings and specialty services in Canada. Rogers executives Ken Engelhart and Phil Lind took the lead, but with Canada’s pre-eminent cable guy...