*** Welcome to piglix ***

Jim Shaw (businessman)

Shaw Communications Inc.
Public
Traded as TSX-VSJR.A (voting)
SJR.B ()
SJR (non-voting)
Industry Telecommunication
Founded 1966; 52 years ago (1966) (as Capital Cable Television Company, Ltd.)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Headquarters Calgary, Alberta
Canada
Key people
JR Shaw (Executive Chairman)
Bradley S. Shaw (CEO)
Jay Mehr (President)
Paul McAleese (COO, Freedom Mobile)
Products Cable television, high speed internet, telephone, direct broadcast satellite, network and specialty broadcasting, logistics tracking, radio
Revenue IncreaseCAD $4.884 billion (2016)
Increase CAD$ 2.220 billion (2013)
Increase CAD$ 784 million (2013)
Number of employees
15,000 (2016)
Divisions Shaw Broadcast Services
Shaw Direct
Subsidiaries Freedom Mobile
Corus Entertainment(40%)
Website www.shaw.ca

Shaw Communications Inc. is a Canadian telecommunications company which provides telephone, Internet, television, and mobile services all backed by a fibre optic network. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Shaw provides services mostly in British Columbia and Alberta, with smaller systems in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Northern Ontario. Through its subsidiary Freedom Mobile, Shaw provides mobile services in urban areas of British Columbia, Alberta, and Southern Ontario. The company's chief competitor is Telus Corporation.

Shaw was founded as Capital Cable Television Company, Ltd. in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1966. The company changed its name to Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. and went public on the TSX in 1983. 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, Greater Winnipeg Cablevision (serving areas east of the Red River), and Videon Cablesystems of Winnipeg (serving areas west of the Red River), which had itself previously acquired Vidéotron'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. In 1999, Shaw spun out its media properties into a second publicly-traded company, Corus Entertainment. In 2001 the Moffat family sold Videon Cablesystems to Shaw.


...
Wikipedia

...