TORONTO – It was an overflow house of hundreds of family, friends, politicians and Canadian business glitterati who gathered in Toronto’s St. James Cathedral on a grey, rainy Tuesday morning to pay their final respects to Ted Rogers, the founder of Rogers Communications and one of the leading lights of Canadian business.
Rogers died December 2nd of heart disease at the age of 75.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, former PM Brian Mulroney, Shaw Communications founder JR Shaw and his son, CEO Jim Shaw, Telus CEO Darren Entwistle, Bell Canada CEO George Cope, Astral chairman Andre…
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TORONTO and VANCOUVER – Shaw Cable customers who watch Rogers Sportsnet HD on channel 211 will now receive Sportsnet West HD or Sportsnet Pacific HD on the same channel.
Effective immediately, Shaw Cable viewers will receive regular regional HD programming when scheduled, along with HD editions of sports highlight show Sportsnet Connected on weeknights.
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TORONTO – Television drama 24 is returning to the airwaves for its seventh season, but not just with new adventures for star Kiefer Sutherland. Global Television has developed complementary show content and will offer it on-line, through video-on-demand (VOD) and via mobile downloads.
Full-length episodes of the show will be available a day after the network broadcast at www.globaltv.com, and Rogers Cable customers will be watch the latest episodes free-of-charge through their VOD platform Rogers-On-Demand.
Viewers on the go can download up to 120 mobisodes housed at www.watch24now.com through any web-enabled mobile device. The mobisodes are 2-minute reels summarizing…
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TORONTO – Nominations close Wednesday, December 10th for the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) brand new Young Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year Award.
The SCTE, along with Aurora Networks as the primary sponsor and Cartt.ca as the publishing partner, last month announced the development and launch of a new award that annually will recognize a young cable telecommunications engineering professional in Canada who is already making his or her mark on the industry.
The Young Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year Award will debut as part of the inaugural SCTE Canadian Summit, which is set for Tuesday…
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TORONTO – The funeral for Rogers Communications founder Ted Rogers will be held Tuesday, December 9 at 11 a.m. at St. James Cathedral, 65 Church Street, Toronto.
Visitation will take place Monday, December 8 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Grace Church on the Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road, Toronto.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to The Loretta Anne Rogers Critical Care Centre at the Toronto Western Hospital www.tgwhf-uhn.ca. (416) 340-4430 or (416) 340-3088.
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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…
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TORONTO – The Radio Marketing Bureau has announced their 2009 board of directors:
Gary Belgrave, President, Radio Marketing Bureau Derek Berghuis, Second Vice Chair, Rogers Radio Glenn Chalmers, Astral Media Radio Lesley Conway-Kelley, Chair, Astral Media Radio Sales Victor Giacomelli, Corus Radio Chris Gordon, CHUM Radio/CTVglobemedia Patrick Grierson, Past Chair, Canadian Broadcast Sales Elmer Hildebrand, Treasurer, Golden West Broadcasting Ltd. Mike Keller, Newcap Broadcasting Breydon MacDonald, CHUM Radio Sales/CTVglobemedia Chris Pandoff, Corus Radio Jacques Parisien, Astral Media Radio Sandee Reed, First Vice Chair Rawlco Radio Gerry Siemens, Pattison Radio Stephen Sienko, Target Broadcast Sales Paul Ski, Rogers Radio
The…
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TORONTO – In memory of Ted Rogers, one of the most important and influential entrepreneurs in Canadian media, TV Ontario will present an encore of one of the last broadcast interviews Rogers gave.
The interview with Allan Gregg airs Friday December 5 at 10 p.m. on Allan Gregg in Conversation. (The program repeats Saturday December 6 at 4:05 a.m. and 6 p.m. and Sunday December 7 at 11:40 p.m.)
In the interview, taped October 6 2008, Rogers discusses his autobiography, "Relentless," in which he explains how he built Rogers Communications into one of the largest companies in Canadian history….
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DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT…?
That’s how thousands of conversations in the Canadian cable, radio, television and telecom business have already begun and will continue over the next few days with the passing of Ted Rogers. The superlatives are flowing and believe me, I’ve worn out my thesaurus trying to come up some new ones. There aren’t any. All the really good ones have been used to describe Canada’s communications and media virtuoso who died yesterday of congestive heart failure at the age of 75.
Visionary. Leader. Genius. Passionate. Driven. Indefatigable. Unyielding. Fighter. Tributes from all across the…
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TORONTO – About 100 people have been let go from the media division at Rogers Communications.
That includes those working for the television side (Citytv, OMNI, Sportsnet, Biography, G4TechTV, etc,), The Shopping Channel, radio, publishing, Rogers Digital, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Rogers Centre.
While spokesperson Suneel Khanna said he couldn’t be specific on the actual number let go, the cuts came from across the country “and from a broad cross-segment of companies under the Rogers Media umbrella.”
Khanna added there will be no further cuts for the balance of the year and that “today’s changes leave us…
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