CALGARY – Shaw Communications has made “significant progress” in restoring services to customers impacted by last week’s fire at its Calgary-based headquarters.
The company said that Shaw Court experienced extensive water damage as a result of the sprinkler systems, and that it has contingency plans in place to relocate employees throughout Calgary in order to continue business operations. Technical and IT essential staff will remain in the building 24 hours per day to monitor and support as required.
"Special thanks go out to the City of Calgary and the Calgary Fire Department for their assistance in a full evacuation…
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CALGARY – An explosion and electrical fire at Shaw Communications’ Calgary headquarters on Thursday morning has knocked out telephone and Internet services to some of its customers. No one was hurt in the incident.
According to a CBC report, the Shaw building is a "key hub" for national, provincial and municipal networking infrastructure and its back up systems failed to kick in. The cause of the fire remains unclear.
“We absolutely apologize for what has happened, and we're doing our best to restore services and we are in an emergency restoration process”, said Shaw president Peter Bissonnette. “So it may seem it's…
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CALGARY – Consolidated revenue at cable TV, internet, satellite TV and media company Shaw Communications for the three month period of $1.28 billion was basically flat (down 0.5%) compared to the same period last year.
Revenue for the nine month period ended May 31, 2012 of $3.79 billion was up 6% over last year. Total operating income before amortization of $567 million declined 3% over the comparable quarterly period while the year-to-date amount of $1.63 billion improved almost 4%.
Free cash flow for the three and nine month periods was $203 million and $379 million, respectively, compared to $240 million and…
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CALGARY – Shaw Direct has begun using adaptive streaming technology to deliver on demand content, including more than 1,500 standard and high-definition movies and TV titles, directly to customers’ set-top boxes.
Users will need to connect their satellite receiver to a high-speed Internet connection to access the new content. Customers who own an Essential or Advanced HD receiver (HDDSR 600 or HDDSR 605) or an Advanced HDPVR receiver (HDPVR 630) will receive a free software update which enables the VOD services to be connected.
"Streaming video on demand is the next step in giving our customers access to Shaw Direct's exceptional programming…
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CALGARY – Shaw’s second national food bank drive raised 1.2 million pounds of food and more than $630,000 for food banks across the country.
The four week long Fill the Food Banks campaign saw more than 300,000 Canadians watch Shaw's Fill the Food Banks video, resulting in a $250,000 donation from Shaw and 250,000 pounds of food from Campbell Canada. The campaign wrapped up during Hunger Awareness Week, which ran from May 7 – 11, 2012.
“All across the country, we've been inspired by the people who have gone to extraordinary lengths to help others in need," said CEO…
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TORONTO – At his company’s Wednesday morning executive briefing to kick off its upfront presentations, Shaw Media president Paul Robertson told TV writers that the company’s near total lack of sports content doesn’t concern him a bit.
When compared to Rogers Media (owners of the Sportsnet brands, The Toronto Blue Jays, NFL games on Citytv and some others) and Bell Media (TSN brands, RDS, NFL games on CTV and soon, co-ownership of Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment with Rogers), Shaw has almost no sports – save some professional golf on Global on the weekends.
No biggie, though, said Robertson. “You…
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TORONTO – Shaw Media will launch two new U.S.-based channels in Canada this fall, plus re-brand its History Television as History to match its American counterpart, the company said Wednesday at its ‘upfront’ presentation in Toronto.
Thanks to the company's partnership with A&E Networks, Canadian viewers will be able to tune in to female-skewing Lifetime, which will take the place of Showcase Diva. With a new logo and tagline – "Your life. Your time.", the channel will premier movies like Liz and Dick starring Lindsay Lohan, and The June Carter Cash Story (wt), starring singer/songwriter Jewel. Other programming will include Dance Moms,…
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TORONTO – The end of the 2011/2012 television season sparked a war of press releases from Canada’s private broadcasters headlined by declarations like “we’re the most watched!” and “we’re growing the fastest!”
After cutting through the hype, what’s clear is that with the exception of NHL hockey, Canadian audiences still opt for the big American hit shows. Of the top 20 most-watched shows this season, The Big Bang Theory, The Amazing Race and Survivor ranked number one, two and three for total viewers, with all averaging audiences north of 2.5 million. CBC’s Hockey Night In Canada (east) ranked ninth with 2.07…
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CALGARY – JR Shaw has bought more shares in the company that he founded.
Shaw Communications said in a statement that Shaw purchased an additional 50,000 Class B non-voting participating shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange for investment purposes at an average price of $19.15 per share, bringing his total purchase of Class B shares since mid-April to 300,000 shares.
After this purchase, Shaw, together with certain family members and corporations in which he has an interest, now own or control 17,782,600 Class A participating shares and 34,649,034 Class B shares of the company.
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CALGARY – Shaw has signed a deal with the City of Winnipeg to provide data networking services, Internet and WiFi.
The multi-year agreement, announced Tuesday, will see Shaw provide a 35-site Virtual Private Local Area Network Service (VPLS) that includes separate VPLS domains for each of the City's business units, in addition to carrier grade Internet. Shaw will also provide WiFi to Winnipeg's libraries that will be available free to users.
"The network Shaw Business will provide to the City of Winnipeg is designed for high availability- meaning that the crucial services of the City will be reliable, consistent and dedicated", said…
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