is a subsidiary of
Rogers Communications Inc., is
Canada 's largest
Cable Television service provider with about 2.25 million television customers, and over 930,000
Internet subscribers, in
Southern Ontario ,
New Brunswick and
Newfoundland And Labrador .
The company's
Digital Cable service is branded as .
Rogers was one of the first cable-system operators in Canada, having secured licenses covering much of the city of
Toronto in the mid-
1960s . One of the first important acquisitions was in 1979, when Ted Rogers purchased a controlling interest in Canadian Cablesystems and joined it with his broadcast interests. In 1980, Rogers purchased Premier Cable, which controlled the system in Vancouver. Rogers continued to buy other operators, the largest such acquisition came with Rogers'
1994 acquisition of
Maclean-Hunter , at that time also among the largest cable operators. Rogers has also owned cable systems in the United States.
- Nadir Mohamed, C.A. - President and Chief Operating Officer Communications Group
- Edward S. Rogers - President Rogers Cable Inc.
- Michael A. Adams - Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
Rogers Cable's territories now consist of: most larger communities in Newfoundland and Labrador, virtually the whole of New Brunswick, selected areas of eastern ,
London ,
Kitchener-Waterloo , and
Barrie .
Over the years, and at various times, Rogers has owned all or part of various cable operators serving areas across Canada, including
Vancouver ,
Victoria ,
Calgary ,
Northern Ontario , and the
Hamilton area. All of the systems in western Canada have been traded to
Shaw Communications in exchange for that company's large majority assets in Ontario and New Brunswick, and many of the others were sold to
Cogeco .
Due to its size, Rogers has been able to be one of the major innovators in the cable industry, and in the telecommunications industry in general. Its growing
Digital Cable service provides access to technologies such as
High Definition Television ,
Video On Demand ,
Interactive Television and enhanced television. Rogers also provides
Broadband Internet Access , co-marketed with
Yahoo! . The company employs
Traffic Shaping and has been widely criticized for this.
Rogers main competitors include satellite companies
Bell ExpressVu and
Star Choice .
Rogers Video , Canada's largest domestically owned chain of video stores, operates as a subsidiary of Rogers Cable. One of its biggest competitors is
Blockbuster Video .
Internet service providers Bell, Bell Aliant, MTS Allstream, Rogers, Shaw, SaskTel, Telus, and Videotron announced "Project Cleanfeed Canada" in November 2006; this involves the blocking of access to hundreds of child pornography sites. Some users consider this to be tantamount to
Censorship .
Project Cleanfeed Canada
