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Shaw Communications
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| Shaw Communications Inc. | |
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| Type | Public (TSX: SJR.NV.B NYSE: SJR) |
| Founded | 1966 (as the Capital Cable Television Co. Ltd.) 1984 (as Shaw Cablesystems Ltd.) |
| Headquarters | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Key people | J.R. Shaw (chairman) |
| Industry | telecommunications |
| Products | cable television, high speed internet, telephone |
| Revenue |  $2.4 billion CAD (2006) |
| Net income | $464.4 million CAD (2006) |
| Employees | 8,200 (2007) |
| Website | www.shaw.ca |
Shaw Communications Inc. (TSX: SJR.NV.B NYSE: SJR) is a Canadian telecomunications 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. In 2005, Shaw started offering digital telephony services in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, and Winnipeg, Manitoba. Victoria, Burnaby and Vancouver, British Columbia, were added in 2006, with plans to expand to Richmond, North Vancouver and West Vancouver in the spring of 2006.
The company 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 Videon Cablesystems 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 Shaw Satellite Services (previously Canadian Satellite Communications, or Cancom) and, through Shaw Satellite Services, StarChoice, 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specialty television services; these assets were later spun off into Corus Entertainment in an effort to satisfy a now-repealed Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) policy discouraging cross-ownership of cablesystems and specialty services.
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- Shaw Tower, Vancouver
- Shaw Barlow, Calgary
- Shaw Court, Calgary
- Shaw Conference Centre, Edmonton
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| Cable television | Access · Aurora · Cable Axion · Cablevision · Cogeco · Dery · EastLink · Look · Mountain Cable · Persona · Rogers · Shaw · Source Cable · Vidéotron · Westman |
| Satellite television | Bell ExpressVu · Star Choice |
| IPTV | Aliant TV · MTS · SaskTel · Telus |
| Defunct providers | Access (Nova Scotia) · CF · Cablecasting · Classicomm · Fundy · Maclean-Hunter · Moffat Communications · Northern · Rush · Selkirk · Trillium · Videon |
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| Corporate Directors: | Adrian Burns · 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 · Bill Yuill |
| Assets: | Shaw Broadcast Services · StarChoice |
| Annual Revenue: $2.46 billion CAN (11% FY 2006) · Employees: 8,200 (FY 2006) · Stock Symbols: TSX: SJR NYSE: SJR · Website: www.shaw.ca |
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