ROGERS MEDIA

'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 stations including OMNI Television, Sportsnet, The Shopping Channel and several speciality channels.

Contents

History

Broadcasting

Publishing

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History

Rogers Media was created 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)

Broadcasting

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 (OMNI.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, OLN, TVtropolis and is a two-thirds owner of G4techTV Canada with Comcast. It holds a minority interest in Viewers Choice as well.
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 from CHUM Limited, as part of the latter company's pending takeover by CTVglobemedia. This transaction was contingent on Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approval of CTVglobemedia's takeover of CHUM. However, on June 8, 2007, the CRTC approved the CTV transaction conditional on CTV divesting 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.

Publishing

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.

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★ Rogers Media

★ Rogers Publishing