Shaw Communications
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company_slogan = | foundation = 1966 (as the Capital Cable Television Co. Ltd.)
1984 (as Shaw Cablesystems Ltd.) | location = Calgary, Alberta, Canada | key_people = J.R. Shaw (chairman) | industry = telecommunications | products = cable television | revenue = Image:Green up.png$1.861 billion CAD (2005) | num_employees = 6,000 (2004) | homepage = www.shaw.ca
}} Shaw Communications Inc. Template:Tsx Template:Nyse is a Canadian 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 services. In 2005, Shaw started offering digital telephony services in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, and Winnipeg, Manitoba. Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia, were added in 2006, with plans to expand to Burnaby, Richmond, North Vancouver and West Vancouver in the spring of 2006.
From its base in Calgary, it 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 Moffat Communications 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 Canadian Satellite Communications (Cancom) and, through Cancom, Star Choice, 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specialty television services; these assets were later spun off into Corus Entertainment in an effort to satisfy a now-repealed CRTC policy discouraging cross-ownership of cablesystems and specialty services.
Corporate governance
Current members of the board of directors of Shaw Communications are: 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, and Bill Yuill.