CALGARY – Longtime Shaw Cable executive Randy Elliot will be retiring on Oct. 31, 2005, company CEO Jim Shaw announced yesterday.
Elliot (right), currently Senior Vice-President of Technical Operations, joined Shaw in 1971, becoming the first person hired to look after the company’s technical aspects.
Colleagues were quick to say how he’s made a huge contribution to the industry.
“He’s been contributing to the rapid expansion of technology in the cable industry: telephones, data, digital, high definition, and fibre,” says Dick Green, president and CEO of Cable Television Laboratories, the research consortium for the cable industry. Elliot has been…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications was advised today that the Shaw Family (its controlling shareholder), and entities owned or controlled by them, completed the purchase of an additional 1,000,000 Class B Non-Voting Shares of the company.
Trading at around the $25.80 mark this morning, the transaction is worth about $25.8 million.
Company CEO Jim Shaw and founder JR Shaw have told the financial community that they believe the share price is undervalued and the family will continue its practice of buying shares when it sees fit.
According to information provided to the company, the Shaw Family, and entities owned or…
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CALGARY – Corus Entertainment said today that its controlling shareholder, the Shaw Family and entities owned or controlled by them, completed the purchase of an additional 126,200 class B non-voting shares of the company during the five day period ending August 23, 2005.
Considering today’s closing share price of $30.75, the value of the buy is about $3.9 million.
“According to information provided to the Company, the Shaw Family, and entities owned or controlled by them, holds 3,023,756 shares of the Company (7.4% of the total outstanding non-voting shares). The Shaw Family also advised the Company it would continue…
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VICTORIA – Shaw Digital Cable customers can now see Fox HD if they have the correct box and television set.
The company made the announcement today. The channel will be added at no additional charge.
"The inclusion of Fox HD in our lineup adds to the superior entertainment experience that HD customers enjoy," said Colin Patterson, vice-president, operations of Shaw Communications, in the press release. "The HD content on the channel is among the best available and we know it will be an instant favourite with our customers."
Fox HD is the third addition in the last year to…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications has teamed up with VOXCOM Security Systems to provide an end-to-end security solution for the cable company’s Digital Phone Service customers.
VOXCOM is able to transfer a customer’s existing monitoring services to their Emergency Response Centre at no additional cost and without any interruptions in service.
Thousands of customers in Western Canada have changed their traditional home phone service to Shaw in the past six months. Most have kept their home phone number, they have kept their home phone equipment, and they have even maintained their existing home security system, says the company.
"Our commitment…
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CALGARY – Shaw Cablesystems announced a new video on demand agreement with Paramount Pictures. Shaw is the first Canadian company to come to a VOD deal with the movie and TV company.
Shaw Digital customers across Western Canada will now have access to some of today’s most popular hit titles such as Coach Carter, Alfie, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Team America World Police and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.
"The addition of Paramount Pictures complements Shaw Video on Demand’s ever-evolving library of movies," said Peter Bissonnette, president, Shaw Communications, in a release. "With over 1,700 titles now…
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WINNIPEG – Shaw Cablesystems announced three new high definition channels have been added to its system in Winnipeg.
The latest additions are: PBS (Fargo), NBC (Detroit), and ABC (Detroit). They launch immediately.
Current Shaw Digital customers in Winnipeg with an HD digital terminal and an HD-ready TV will receive these channels at no extra cost. HD customers who already subscribe to Movie Central will also receive Movie Central HD at no charge.
The Shaw HD Channel lineup in Winnipeg: – Channel 301 WJBK Fox Detroit – Channel 302 WWJ CBS Detroit – Channel 303 Movie Central HD – Channel…
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CALGARY – With provincial telco Manitoba Telecom Services taking away many video subscribers, it’s only natural that Shaw Communications would turn to Winnipeg to launch voice over Internet protocol telephony.
Winnipeg today became the third market where the company has launched Shaw Digital Phone, “a reliable, fully featured and affordable residential telephone service that will offer consumers a real alternative to their current telephone provider,” says Shaw’s press release.
The service includes a local residential line, unlimited anytime long distance calling within Canada and the U.S., and six calling features: Voicemail, call display, call forwarding, three-way calling, call return…
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VANCOUVER – Shaw Digital Cable customers in Vancouver no longer have to log on to the Internet to order video on demand.
Shaw Cablesystems today introduced remote control ordering of VOD movies and entertainment in Vancouver.
Shaw Digital customers in Vancouver will be able to order the most popular new release movies and other programming directly from their remote control, and watch it right away with full DVD capabilities like pause, fast forward and rewind.
While Shaw has offered VOD in Vancouver since 2002, it was only available to those who were also Shaw Internet customers. Movies were ordered…
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OTTAWA – Three days before the two sides were to face the CRTC, OUTtv and Shaw Communications have settled their disagreement.
The deal means that gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered lifestyle channel OUTtv will be re-packaged on Shaw Cable and Star Choice. OUTtv objected to the way it was being packaged as a stand-alone service, contrary to its rights as a category one digital channel as a must-carry.
Shaw and OUTtv were to face the CRTC for one more ruling on Friday but the channel withdrew the complaint after the two sides came to an agreement last Tuesday. “The Shaw…
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