Cable / Telecom News

TED ROGERS: 1933-2008. “The greatest Canadian entrepreneur of the 20th century”

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 Canada...