Jim Shaw (businessman)

Shaw Communications Inc.

Type	Public
Traded as	TSX-V: SJR.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	CAD $4.884 billion (2016)
Operating income	CAD$ 2.220 billion (2013)
Net income	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.