CALGARY – With son and CEO Jim in Africa on vacation (but in on the call), Shaw Communications founder and chairman JR Shaw led today’s company conference call with financial analysts
As reported yesterday by www.cartt.ca, Shaw had over 22,450 telephony customers as of the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2005, May 31st. That level of growth – which is continuing – has led the company to not only boost its capital expenditure plans for the immediate future, but also dramatically quicken its penetration expectations.
“At this stage our price point of $55 a month does…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications today reported solid third quarter results, beating analysts extimates and revealing its number of telephony subscribers for the first time.
The satellite, cable, Internet and telephone company announced net income of $43.3 million or $0.16 per share for the quarter ended May 31, 2005 compared to net income of $24.8 million or $0.06 per share for the comparable period in 2004. The market was expecting $0.12 per share.
Net income for the nine months of the year was $94.2 million or $0.36 per share, up from $62.0 million or $0.14 per share last year.
"Shaw’s…
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CALGARY – Shaw Cablesystems today said it has added Rogers Sportsnet HD and Fox HD to its channel lineup.
The two channels are included at no charge to customers subscribing to Shaw Digital.
While Fox HD carries much popular TV programming, including NFL Football, NASCAR racing, American Idol, 24, House, Stacked, The O.C., and Malcolm in the Middle, Sportsnet is the HD leader in Canada with hundreds of hours of HD content, including every home game of the Toronto Blue Jays in HD. Sportsnet has broadcast about 150 live events since the Toronto Blue Jays opened their HD schedule…
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CALGARY – Shaw Cablesystems today notified its Internet customers that they can now access a new e-mail feature, for no extra charge.
Shaw Video Mail is now available to all Shaw Internet customers. Using Shaw Video Mail, customers can send a video email up to two minutes in length to multiple recipients around the world. The message interface allows the inclusion of full audio as well as photos in a slide show format.
"Shaw Video Mail is a next generation service that is perfectly supported by the recent speed enhancements we’ve introduced," said Peter Bissonnette, president of Shaw Communications,…
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OTTAWA – Shaw Communications has asked the CRTC to free its pay-per-view service from its geographic shackles.
In its license renewal application for Shaw Pay-Per-View, the company has asked the Commission for an amendment to permit national distribution, but only via satellite companies.
As the Shaw PPV license now stands, it may only distribute its service in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Viewer’s Choice PPV gets the rest of the country in its license.
Since Bell ExpressVu has its own branded PPV service called Vu! –and the only other licensed DTH company in Canada…
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WINNIPEG – While his announcement that Shaw Communications’ VOIP launch in Winnipeg is imminent got some headlines after a speech last week, company CEO Jim Shaw used the forum to pound away at one of his favorite topics: transforming government policy.
After saying in the prepared text of his speech to the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce that he expected Shaw to launch voice over Internet protocol telephony in Winnipeg, “in the next few weeks,” he went on to outline his vision of a lighter regulatory regime for the telecom and TV industry.
Broadcast, telecom, it doesn’t matter, all areas…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications announced today that its Shaw Digital Phone customers can now call Alaska and Hawaii as part of their unlimited, anytime long distance calling plan.
This is in addition to the current offering of anytime, unlimited long distance calling anywhere in Canada and the Continental U.S. at no extra charge.
"The addition of Alaska and Hawaii to our unlimited long distance calling plan means customers of Shaw Digital Phone can now call anywhere in Canada and the U.S. anytime they want to at no additional charge," said Peter Bissonnette, president of Shaw Communications Inc., in a…
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TORONTO – Last evening, the Shaw Rocket Fund announced that Degrassi: The Next Generation, produced by Toronto’s Epitome Pictures, is the first ever recipient of the $50,000 Shaw Rocket Prize.
The prize was established by Shaw Communications to recognize and celebrate excellence in Canadian children’s television. This year marks the first of three years that the prize will be awarded.
Four finalists for the Shaw Rocket Prize were selected by an independent, international jury of leaders in children’s TV from the U.K., U.S., Australia, Germany and Canada from submissions made by Canadian producers.
A jury of close to 400…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications told the CRTC on Thursday that it will take the necessary steps to become a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC).
Having entered the local telephony market in Calgary on Valentine’s Day this year with a voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) service, Shaw has put a scare into Telus, which complained in a submission to the Commission in March that Shaw should be forced to cease and desist selling the service due to the cableco’s “non-compliance with local entry rules.”
Telus is of the opinion that Shaw needed to comply with the CRTC’s Telecom Decision 97-8…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC said Friday that Shaw Communications was not giving itself an undue preference when denying full pay-per-view service to Telus and it’s yet-to-be-launched digital television service, Telus TV.
Telus filed a complaint in November 2004 saying that Shaw Pay-Per-View was saying it would limit the movie titles made available to Telus TV – which therefore means Shaw has given its PPV and cable divisions “undue preference” and subjected Telus to an undue disadvantage, said the western telco.
Shaw, on the other hand, claimed agreements with certain U.S. movie studios prohibit it from making programming available to…
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