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Rogers Media Inc is a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc., which owns Canada's largest publishing company, Rogers Publishing Limited, which has more than 70 consumer and business publications. Rogers Media Inc. also owns 51 radio stations, and several television properties including Citytv, OMNI Television, Rogers Sportsnet, The Shopping Channel and several speciality channels.

Rogers Media was created in 2006 to manage all television station and specialty channels, radio stations and publishing assets. The division is split into two areas:

• Broadcasting (television and radio)
• Publishing (magazines and directories)

Rogers Media holds Rogers Communications radio and television broadcasting operations, as well as the consumer and trade publishing operations, other television properties and the Toronto Blue Jays and Rogers Centre. Rogers Media also produces content and conducts e-commerce over the Internet relating to many of its individual broadcasting and publishing properties.

The group has 51 radio stations across Canada, (42 FM and 9 AM radio stations); the CityTV network in 5 cities, two multicultural television stations in Ontario in OMNI 1 and OMNI 2. It also hold a multicultural television station in Manitoba known as OMNI 11 and a spiritually-themed television station in Vancouver under OMNI 10. The latter two are slated for sale to S-VOX pending approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Rogers Media also manages a specialty sports television service licensed to provide regional sports programming across Canada as Rogers Sportsnet, and Canada’s only nationally televised shopping service, The Shopping Channel. Through Rogers Sportsnet, Media also holds 50% ownership in Dome Productions, a mobile production and distribution joint venture that is a leader in high-definition television (HDTV) production and broadcasting in Canada. The Broadcasting division also owns The Biography Channel Canada, and holds minority interests in several Canadian specialty television services, including Viewers Choice Canada and Outdoor Life Network, and holds a majority interest in G4TechTV Canada.

Media’s Publishing group (“Publishing”) publishes more than 70 consumer magazines and trade and professional publications and directories in Canada.

In addition to its organic growth, Media expanded its business in 2006 through the following initiatives: by launching the Canadian edition of Hello! magazine and Chocolat; the launch of OMNI 11 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the acquisition of Canadian Parents Online, and the increased ownership of The Biography Channel and G4TechTV Canada, to 100% and 66.67%, respectively.

Rogers Broadcasting operates 51 Canadian radio stations, (36 FM and 10 AM radio stations) including three FM stations launched in the Maritimes in October 2005; OMNI Television, which operates two multicultural television stations in Ontario (OMNI.1 and OMNI.2) and two spiritually-themed television stations, one in Vancouver (CHNU.10) acquired in June 2005 that also airs in Victoria and the other in Winnipeg (OMNI.11); Rogers Sportsnet, a specialty sports television service licensed to provide regional sports programming across Canada; The Shopping Channel, Canada's only nationally televised shopping service and the The Biography Channel Canada, acquired outright in August 2006 when Rogers bought out the 40% stake owned by Calgary's Shaw Communications and A&E Television Networks' 20% ownership.[1]

Rogers also is a partner in CPAC (although owned through Rogers Cable Inc.), TVtropolis, G4techTV Canada and Viewers Choice. Rogers also is a non-managing partner in OLN, although on November 16, 2007, it was announced that Rogers will be acquiring 100% interest in the service from the remaining interest holders, CTVglobemedia and Comast.

Some of the better known radio outlets are CHFI Toronto, CJCL Toronto (The FAN 590), CFTR Toronto (680 News), and various stations operating under the Jack FM brand. In summer 2006, Rogers acquired five stations from OK Radio in Alberta and, with regulatory approval, will be operating in Edmonton, Fort McMurray and Grande Prairie. Existing clusters of stations are in Vancouver-Victoria-Whistler, Calgary-Lethbridge, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Kitchener and Halifax-Moncton-Saint John, NB.

In 2007, Rogers entered a tentative deal to purchase the A-Channel stations, CKX-TV, Access Alberta, Canadian Learning Television and SexTV: The Channel from CHUM Limited, as part of the latter company's pending takeover by CTVglobemedia. On June 8, 2007, the CRTC approved the CTV transaction of CHUM, but it added a condition that CTV must divest itself of Citytv rather than A-Channel, effectively voiding the deal. On June 12, it was announced that Rogers had made a new offer of $375 million for the Citytv stations. On June 28, Rogers further offered to sell the two religious-licensed OMNI stations in Winnipeg and Vancouver as part of the Citytv deal, although the company stated that it intended to retain the multilingual-licensed OMNI stations. In September of 2007 Rogers has also applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to acquire 20 per cent interest of CablePulse 24, a local news channel in Toronto which shares the same staff and resources from Citytv Toronto both stations were previously owned by CHUM Limited, but CTVglobemedia retained ownership of CP24 on the June 8th CRTC ruling. ^[1] Neither CTV nor Rogers has, to date, announced whether this application will change future plans for the station.

Rogers Publishing Limited publishes more than 70 consumer magazines and trade and professional publications, digital properties and directories in Canada, including Maclean's, Canada's weekly newsmagazine; its French-language equivalent, L'actualité; Chatelaine; Flare; and a variety of other magazines and their companion web sites. The publishing arm was once part of the Maclean Hunter Publishing empire.

• Rogers Media
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v • d • e Rogers Communications Inc.
Corporate Directors:	Ronald Besse · Charles Birchall · H. Garfield Emerson · Peter Godsoe · Thomas Hull · Philip Lind · Nadir Mohamed · David Peterson · Ted Rogers · Edward Rogers III · Loretta Rogers · Melinda Rogers · William Schleyer · John A. Tory · J. Christopher Wansbrough · Colin Watson
Magazines:	Canadian Business · Chatelaine (English) · Châtelaine (French) · Flare · glow · L'actualité · LOU LOU · Maclean's · Marketing · MoneySense · Ontario Out of Doors · Profit · Today's Parent
Cable television:	The Biography Channel · CPAC · G4techTV Canada · OLN1 · Rogers Sportsnet · Rogers Television3 · Télévision Rogers3 · TVtropolis  · The Shopping Channel · Viewers Choice
Conventional television:	OMNI Television: CFMT  · CHXC  · CHXE  · CIIT4  · CJMT  · Citytv: CITY  · CHMI  · CKAL  · CKEM  · CKVU  · Independent: CHNU4
Other assets:	Fido  · Jack FM (most Canadian stations)  · Rogers Cable  · Rogers Building  · Rogers Centre  · CFMT Building  · 35 Dundas Street East  · Rogers Park  · Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet  · Rogers Telecom  · Rogers Media  · Rogers Plus  · Rogers Wireless  · Spring Fishing Show  · Toronto Blue Jays
Radio stations:	CFAC  · CFFR  · CFRV  · CFSR  · CFTR  · CHEZ · CHFI · CHFM · CHMN · CHNI · CHTT · CHUR · CHYM · CICX2 · CIGM · CIOC · CISQ · CISS · CISW · CITI · CIWW · CJAQ · CJCL · CJET · CJMX · CJNI · CJQM · CJQQ · CJRQ · CJRX · CKAT · CKBY · CKCL · CKER · CKFX · CKGB · CKGL · CKIS · CKLG · CKNI · CKQC · CKSR · CKWX · CKY
Notes	1Co-owned with CTVglobemedia and Comcast. Rogers currently does not manage the channel. There is a sale pending that will give 100% control of OLN to Rogers. 2Sale to Larche Communications pending; if approved, Rogers will acquire CIKZ in the same transaction. 3These channels are only available on Rogers Cable and are not available on satellite or through other cable service providers. 4 As a condition of the CRTC approval of Citytv, Rogers must sell these stations in order to comply with CRTC restrictions on owning multiple stations in one market. These stations are now being sold to S-VOX pending CRTC approval.
Annual Revenue: $5.60 billion CAD (24% FY 2004) · Employees: 18,057 · Stock Symbols: TSX: RCI.A, TSX: RCI.B, NYSE: RG · Website: www.rogers.com