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In 1980, Rogers acquired Premier Cablevision and became the largest cable company in Canada. In 1986, Rogers Cable was renamed Rogers Communications; it established operational control over Cantel, a wireless telephone company in which Rogers had a stake.
Jan 26, 2012 · Rogers bought a share of CNCP Telecommunications, later renamed Unitel, which was launched to compete with Bell Canada in the long-distance phone business, previously a Bell monopoly. Disagreements arose among the partners, however, and when Unitel was restructured in 1995, Rogers walked away, abandoning the $500 million it had invested in Unitel.
Following in his father’s footsteps, Ted Rogers purchased his first radio station, CHFI, in 1960 at the age of 27. He believed in the power of communication to inform, inspire and innovate and in the decades that followed, he did just that.
By this time, Rogers Communications had also entered the local telephone business through an entity called Rogers Network Services, which was renamed Rogers Telecom Inc. in 1997, and had become an Internet service provider through the cable-based Rogers WAVE.
Rogers Communications was established in 1967 and grew into one of Canada's largest media conglomerates. His father, Edward S. Rogers Sr., is regarded as the founder of the company, although the radio station that he established, CFRB, is now owned by another Canadian company and competitor, Bell Media.
It launched under that name in September 2001; Rogers were partnered in the venture by Shaw Communications and the U.S. Tech TV Channel. On October 1st, Rogers received CRTC approval for the company to acquire ownership of what at the time was CTVSportsnet, which CTV had launched in 1998.
Jul 26, 2011 · Rogers was a pioneer in the Canadian communications industry who established Rogers Communications. At the time of his death in 2008, Rogers was the fourth-richest Canadian, with a net worth of over $7 billion, while the company was worth $18 billion and employed roughly 29,000 people.
