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9 unusual facts about Rogers Communications


CHKT

After Rogers Communications acquired Maclean-Hunter in 1994, CKYC was sold to Telemedia.

Gabe Freeman

On March 14, 2012, Freeman was named the NBL Canada's inaugural Rogers Communications Most Valuable Player.

MLS on TSN

Games that are not covered under national broadcast contracts with MLS or other competition organizers are divided evenly between the two broadcasters, pursuant to agreements between their parent companies (Bell Canada and Rogers Communications respectively) in connection to their joint 2011 purchase of MLSE.

Toronto FC regional games are currently split between the TSN and Sportsnet families of networks (their parent companies, Rogers Communications and Bell Canada, jointly own a stake in TFC's parent company).

Rogers Communications

While Ted Rogers was an articling student with Tory, Tory, DesLauriers & Binnington, he started Rogers Radio Broadcasting Limited, which acquired Canada's pioneer FM station, CHFI-FM.

Rogers Media owns Canada's largest publishing company, Rogers Publishing Limited, which has more than 70 consumer and business publications, 51 radio stations, television broadcasting with Omni Television, City, Sportsnet, Sportsnet One, Sportsnet World, Sportsnet 360, OLN, G4 Canada, RDeals and The Shopping Channel which is Canada's home shopping service.

Also in 2000, Rogers bought the Arena Football League team, the New England Sea Wolves and after the 2000 season, Rogers moved them to Toronto and renamed the team the Toronto Phantoms.

Shadowland: The Legend

The film was first released across Canada on September 4, 2012 as VOD on Rogers, Shaw Cable, Sasktel, MTS, Google Play and iTunes.

WNLO

One year later, Rogers Cable began carrying WNEQ on its digital tier for customers in the Greater Toronto Area.


2012 Rogers Cup

The 2012 Rogers Cup presented by National Bank (known as such for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts.

CounterPath Corporation

CounterPath's customers include some of the world's largest telecommunications service providers and network equipment providers including Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, Verizon, BT (British Telecommunications PLC), Mobilkom Austria, Rogers, SaskTel, Avaya, BroadSoft, Cisco Systems, Metaswitch Networks, GENBAND, Mitel, NTT and NEC.

Edward S. Rogers, Sr.

In 1930, he married Velma Melissa Taylor and three years later they had a son, Ted Rogers, Jr. who grew up to build Rogers Communications into a media conglomerate.

Edward Samuel Rogers

, OC (May 27, 1933 – December 2, 2008) was the President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., and the fifth richest person in Canada in terms of net worth.

NOWTV

On November 1, 2004, Trinity Television announced that it was selling CHNU and the licence for CIIT-TV Winnipeg, at that time not yet launched, to Rogers Communications, subject to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approval.

The Marilyn Denis Show

Denis had left CityLine in 2008 following the split of the assets of CHUM Limited (Denis was primarily employed as morning co-host on CHUM-FM, which was retained by CTV, whilst her secondary employer Citytv was acquired by Rogers).

York Mills Road

Landmarks along York Mills Road include a recreation complex at Bayview Avenue, York Mills Collegiate Institute, a large Rogers Communications complex past Leslie Street, and the former site of the Upjohn Company of Canada near Don Mills Road at Upjohn Road.


see also

Chatelaine

Châtelaine, a French-Canadian women's magazine, published by Rogers Communications