Rogers Communications

Rogers Communications

Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX: RCI.A, RCI.B, NYSE: RCI) is one of the largest communications and entertainment companies in Canada, particularly in the field of wireless communications, cable television, telephone, and Internet connectivity with significant additional telecommunications and mass media assets. The company is headquartered in the Rogers Building in Toronto, Ontario.

The company claims the heritage of the Rogers Vacuum Tube Company, founded in 1925 by Edward Rogers, which started the CFRB radio station in Toronto, which was later acquired by outside interests. The present enterprise dates to 1960, when Rogers' son, Ted Rogers, founded Rogers Radio Broadcasting Ltd. That company acquired CHFI that year, as well as Aldred-Rogers Broadcasting, a partnership with Joel Aldred which helped launch CFTO in 1961. Rogers later bought out Aldred and started the current cable and wireless operations, known as Rogers Cablesystems Ltd.

The chief competitor to the company 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. However, the company also competes nationally with Telus for wireless services, and primarily indirectly with Shaw Communications for television service. The company also competes with a number of other media companies in the broadcasting industry.