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 services. In
2005 , Shaw started offering digital
Telephony services in
Calgary and
Edmonton ,
Alberta , and
Winnipeg ,
Manitoba .
Victoria and
Vancouver ,
British Columbia , were added in 2006, with plans to expand to
Burnaby ,
Richmond ,
North Vancouver and
West Vancouver in the spring of 2006.
From its base in Calgary, it 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
Moffat Communications 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
Canadian Satellite Communications (Cancom) and, through Cancom,
Star Choice , 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Corus Entertainment in an effort to satisfy a now-repealed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.
Current members of the ,
Jim Dinning ,
George Galbraith ,
Ronald Joyce ,
Charles Keating ,
Don Mazankowski ,
Michael O'Brien ,
Harold Roozen ,
Jeffrey Royer ,
Bradley Shaw ,
Jim Shaw ,
J.R. Shaw ,
J.C. Sparkman ,
John S. Thomas , and
Bill Yuill .
