Rogers Communications

Rogers Communications Inc.
Company typePublic
TSX: RCI.A, RCI.B
NYSE: RCI
S&P/TSX 60 component
IndustryTelecommunications
Mass media
Founded1960; 64 years ago (1960)
FounderTed Rogers
HeadquartersRogers Building
333 Bloor Street East,
Toronto, Ontario
,
Canada
Key people
ProductsLandline and mobile telephony, Internet services, digital television, broadcasting, cable TV, publishing
RevenueIncrease CA$15.396 billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2022)
Increase CA$1.195 billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2022)
Increase CA$1.680 billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2022)
Total assetsIncrease CA$55.655 billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2022)
Total equityDecrease CA$10.092 billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2022)
OwnerRogers family, through Rogers Control Trust (administered by Scotiabank) (controlling shareholder)
Number of employees
22,000 (2022)
Subsidiaries
Shaw Communications (Cable & Wireless; Acquired and amalgamated; operations rebranded beginning July 2023)
Websitewww.rogers.com Edit this at Wikidata
Footnotes / references
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Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian communications and media company operating primarily in the fields of wireless communications, cable television, telephony and Internet, with significant additional telecommunications and mass media assets. Rogers has its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario.[6]

The company traces its origins to 1914, when Edward S. Rogers Sr. founded Rogers Vacuum Tube Company to sell battery-less radios, although this present enterprise dates to 1960, when Ted Rogers and a partner acquired the CHFI-FM radio station;[7] they then became part-owners of a group that established the CFTO television station.[8]

The chief competitor to Rogers is Bell Canada, which has a similarly extensive portfolio of radio and television media assets, as well as wireless, television distribution, and telephone services, particularly in Eastern and Central Canada. The two companies are often seen as having a duopoly on communications services in their regions, and both companies own a stake of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment. Rogers also competes nationally with Telus for wireless services.

Rogers Communications' acquisition of Shaw Communications in Western Canada was approved in 2023.

  1. ^ About Rogers: Our History Archived October 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, rogers.com.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Directors was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Ljunggren, David; Gamage, Michelle; Shakil, Ismail (November 6, 2021). "Rogers Communications reinstates ousted chair after court backs his bid to shakeup board". Reuters. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  4. ^ "Rogers Communications Inc. 2022 Annual Report". Rogers. December 31, 2022. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  5. ^ "Rogers Investor Relations". Rogers Investor Relations. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  6. ^ "Contact Us Mail or Fax". Rogers Communications. Retrieved on November 22, 2013.
  7. ^ "History of Rogers". Rogers Communications. Archived from the original on February 2, 2008. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
  8. ^ Rogers Media, The Canadian Communications Foundation.