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Shaw Communications
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Shaw Communications Inc. (TSX: SJR.NV.B NYSE: SJR) is a Canadian company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.
The company was founded by J.R. Shaw in 1966 as Capital Cable Television Co Ltd.. It provides Internet access, cable television, digital cable and video on demand. In 2005, Shaw started offering digital telephony services in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, and Winnipeg, Manitoba. Victoria, Burnaby and Vancouver, British Columbia, were added in 2006, with plans to expand to Richmond, North Vancouver and West Vancouver in the spring of 2006.
The company grew during the
1980s and
1990s through acquisitions of firms including
Classicomm in the
Toronto area,
Access Communications in
Nova Scotia,
Fundy Cable in
New Brunswick,
Trillium Cable in
Ontario,
Telecable in
Saskatchewan, and
Videon Cablesystems of
Winnipeg, which had itself previously acquired
Videotron's assets in
Alberta. However, two swaps, in
1994 and
2001, with
Rogers Cable have resulted in its assets being restricted to
western Canada and a few areas of
northern Ontario.
Shaw is also the parent of Shaw Broadcast Services (previously Canadian Satellite Communications, or Cancom) and, through Shaw Broadcast, StarChoice, one of Canada's two national direct broadcast satellite providers. For many years it also owned a number of radio stations and specialty television services; these assets were later spun off into Corus Entertainment in an effort to satisfy a now-repealed CRTC policy discouraging cross-ownership of cablesystems and specialty services.
Contents
- 1 Corporate governance
- 2 Eponymous Buildings
- 3 See also
- 4 External links
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Corporate governance
Current members of the board of directors of Shaw Communications are: Adrian Burns, Jim Dinning, George Galbraith, Ronald Joyce, Charles Keating, Don Mazankowski, Michael O'Brien, Harold Roozen, Jeffrey Royer, Brad Shaw, Jim Shaw, J.R. Shaw, Peter Bissonnette,J.C. Sparkman, John S. Thomas, and Bill Yuill.
Eponymous Buildings
Gallery
See also
