Rogers Cable
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Rogers Cable Inc. is Canada's largest cable television service provider with about 2.25 million television customers, and over 930,000 Internet subscribers, primarily in Southern & Eastern Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador. Rogers Cable is a division of Rogers Communications Partnership, itself wholly owned by Rogers Communications Inc.[1]
History
Rogers was one of the first cable-system operators in Canada, having secured licences covering much of the then city of
In 1981, Rogers entered the U.S. cable market, obtaining franchises in Orange County, California; Minneapolis; and Portland, Oregon, and purchased the cable system in San Antonio.[citation needed] These assets were acquired by Paragon Cable in 1989 for over US$1 billion; Paragon in turn was acquired by Time Warner Cable several years later.[citation needed]
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. Through its acquisition of Maclean-Hunter, Rogers has also briefly owned cable systems in the United States, which it promptly sold to Comcast in 1994.[citation needed] In March 2000, Rogers agreed to swap systems with Shaw Communications, exchanging its systems in British Columbia for Shaw systems in Quebec and Ontario. The deals gave Rogers and Shaw more consistent service footprints in Eastern and Western Canada respectively.[2]
In 2008, Rogers announced a takeover offer for
On September 9, 2009, Rogers Cable filed a lawsuit in an attempt to prevent Shaw Communications from acquiring
In 2010, a corporate reorganization resulted in Rogers Cable being dissolved as a distinct legal entity, and its operations absorbed into Rogers Communications Partnership, a
In October 2015, Rogers announced that it would begin to offer 4K-compatible set-top boxes, beginning in Toronto and expanding to its other markets in 2016.[7] Telecasts of 4K sporting events from Sportsnet and TSN began to be carried on these set-top boxes in January 2016.[8]
In December 2016, Rogers announced that it had scrapped a planned project to develop its own
Management
- Joe Natale - President & Chief Executive Officer
- Edward Rogers III- Deputy Chairman and the Executive Vice-President of Emerging Business and Corporate Development of Rogers Communications (2013 - current)
- Jordan Banks - Rogers Sports & Media
Canadian cable territories
Rogers Cable currently serves most larger communities in Newfoundland and Labrador, nearly all of New Brunswick, selected areas of eastern
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, and Northern Ontario. All of the systems in Western Canada were traded to Shaw Communications in late 2000, in exchange for that company's assets in Ontario and New Brunswick, and many of the others were sold to Cogeco.
Service Areas
New Brunswick
Entered the Province through an asset exchange with Shaw Communications, which had previously acquired Fundy Communications.[14]
Operates in almost every major community, with the exceptions of Sackville and Port Elgin, which are served by EastLink.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Entered the Province by acquiring Cable Atlantic.[15]
- St. John's
- Conception Bay South
- Paradise
- Mount Pearl
- Corner Brook
- Grand Falls-Windsor
- Gander
- Portugal Cove-St. Philip's
- Torbay
- Deer Lake
- Channel-Port aux Basques
- Pasadena
- Bishop's Falls
- Botwood
- Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove
- Pouch Cove
- New-Wes-Valley
- Wabana
- Flatrock
- Witless Bay
- Massey Drive
- Bay Bulls
- Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove
- Musgrave Harbour
- Carmanville
- Mount Moriah
- Bauline
- Isle-Aux-Morts
Ontario
Large acquisitions: cable operations of
- Barrie
- Durham Region (acquisition of Compton Communications)[16]
- Guelph
- Hamilton (acquisition of Source Cable)[17] and Mountain Cablevision[18]
- Kincardine (acquisition of Kincardine Cable)
- London
- Ottawa
- Waterloo Region
- York Region (acquisition of Aurora Cable Internet)[19]
Quebec
- Carleton-sur-Mer and surrounding areas (community close to New Brunswick border)
Community channels
Other investments
CPAC
Through Rogers Cable, Rogers is the largest shareholder (41.4%) in
Retail stores
Rogers Cable previously operated a chain of
Criticism
Negative option billing
In the beginning of 1995, Rogers along with several other cable companies, added a number of new cable channels under a negative option billing plan. Subscribers opting out of paying for the new channels stood to lose much of their existing specialty channel programming. The participating cable companies were hit by both regulatory and public opinion backlash and ultimately were forced to split the negative-option channels into two separately purchasable blocks, a move which Rogers had initially opposed as "not technologically feasible".
Dropping of WPBS and WQLN
In July 2009, Rogers Cable announced that on August 18, 2009, they would be replacing
On July 30, 2009, it was announced that Rogers would keep WPBS[22][23] and WQLN[24] on its systems, after both stations announced a fibre-based connection with Rogers. Additional funds will be allocated to complete the transition; while WQLN announced that they will spend $55,000 to provide a connection,[24] WPBS agreed with Rogers not to disclose the cost of the fibre-optic signal for their own station.[23]
Software issues
The introduction of Rogers' "Navigatr" user interface in mid-2015 was heavily criticized by users for being poorly designed and harder to use. Rogers began to address these issues with a new version it began to deploy in December 2015.[25]
On May 6, 2016, Rogers was criticized when a nightly 2:00 a.m. reboot of NextBox set-top boxes caused viewers to miss the conclusion of an
References
- ^ a b "Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2010-793". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
- ^ "Rogers, Shaw swap cable assets, strike Internet alliance". CBC News. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
- ^ "Rogers Wireless and Cable | Rogers Cable to acquire Aurora Cable". Newswire.ca. 2008-02-13. Archived from the original on 5 May 2008. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
- ^ "Rogers sues to block Shaw's Ontario cable buy". CBC News. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
- ^ "Rogers' territorial lawsuit against Shaw quashed". CBC News. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
- ^ "Shaw hangs up on its cellular plans". The Globe and Mail. January 14, 2013. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- ^ "Rogers announces Ignite Gigabit internet, 4K sports broadcasts". CBC News. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ^ "4K content becomes a reality in Canada". Toronto Star. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- ^ "Canada's Rogers Kills Internet TV Project, Reaches Comcast Pact for X1 System". Variety. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
- ^ "Rogers pinning cable turnaround hopes on Internet protocol TV". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
- ^ Baumgartner, Jeff (August 29, 2017). "Comcast Nets Emmy for X1 Voice Remote Technology". NextTV. Retrieved April 24, 2024.
- ^ Dobby, Christine (2018-08-19). "Rogers launches long-delayed internet-TV service, Ignite TV, as telecom battle heats up". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
- ^ "Discontinuation of our Digital TV Packages: FAQs". Rogers. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
- ^ "Rogers nabs Shaw cable | CBC News".
- ^ "Rogers buys Cable Atlantic | CBC News".
- ^ "Compton Communications joins Rogers empire". 8 March 2011.
- ^ "Source Cable sold to Rogers in $160M deal | TheSpec.com". The Hamilton Spectator. 24 October 2014.
- ^ "Rogers snaps up Hamilton's Mountain Cablevision from Shaw | CBC News".
- ^ "Rogers Cable to acquire Aurora Cable". About Rogers. 2008-02-13. Retrieved 2022-05-05.
- ^ http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2009/07/22/10215191-sun.html [dead link]
- ^ a b "WPBS of New York to disappear from Ottawa TV". CBC News. July 16, 2009. Archived from the original on 20 July 2009. Retrieved July 20, 2009.
- ^ "PBS Watertown wins reprieve from Rogers". www.ottawacitizen.com. Archived from the original on 31 July 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ a b "Watertown Daily Times - WPBS to stay on in Ottawa". Watertown Daily Times. Archived from the original on 4 August 2009. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
- ^ a b http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2009/07/31/10322201-sun.html [dead link]
- ^ "PVR reboot meant some Rogers customers missed Nashville's OT goal". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 27 March 2017.