Shaw Communications Inc. is a Canadian telecommunications company that provides telephone, Internet, television and mobile services all supported by fiber optic networks. 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 cellular services in urban areas of British Columbia, Alberta, and Southern Ontario. The main competitor of the company is Telus Corporation.
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Shaw was founded as Capital Cable Television Company, Ltd. in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1966. The company changed its name to Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. and became a public company in TSX in 1983. The company grew during the 1980s and 1990s through acquisitions of companies 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 the western area of ​​the Red River), which had previously acquired the assets of VidÃÆ' Â © otron in Alberta. However, two swaps, in 1994 and 2001, with Rogers Cable have resulted in its assets being restricted to Western Canada and some areas in Northern Ontario. In 1999, Shaw released his media property into the second public corporation, Corus Entertainment. In 2001 the Moffat family sold Videon Cablesystems to Shaw.
Prior to 2003, Shaw had a cable system in the United States previously owned by Moffat Communications, serving six communities in Florida (Pasco East County, Clermont, Palm Coast, Ormond Beach, West Palm Beach and Doral), and the Houston, Texas suburb of Kingwood , Lake Conroe, and Lake Livingston. In February 2003, the Florida system will be sold to Time Warner Cable (with West Palm Beach and Doral systems then sold to Comcast, and other systems revolve to Bright House Networks), while the Texas system is sold to Cequel III, as part of a Connections subsidiary -Cebridge (now Suddenlink Communications).
In 2008, Shaw entered the AWS spectrum auction with a view to becoming a wireless phone provider. The auction ended in July 2008, giving Shaw Communications a sufficient spectrum to build wireless networks in their home provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. The spectrum was eventually deprecated and sold to Rogers Communications in January 2013.
In July 2009, Shaw announced the acquisition of Mount Cablevision; in September, Rogers sued Shaw for blocking the sale, citing a non-competing clause violation. However, the lawsuit was quickly dismissed by Ontario High Court. This purchase was approved by the CRTC on October 22, 2009. The acquisition is Shaw's first cable property in eastern Sault Ste. Marie since 2001 exchanged with Rogers and Cogeco. Shaw's reentry into South Ontario will be short-lived, as Hamilton's system will be sold back to Rogers in January 2013 as part of a deal that also sees the unused wireless spectrum sold to the company, and sees Rogers selling his stake in the TVtropolis special channel.
Return to broadcast
On April 30, 2009, Shaw announced an agreement to acquire three TV stations - CHWI-TV in Windsor, Ontario, CKNX-TV in Wingham, Ontario and CKX-TV in Brandon, Manitoba - from CTVglobemedia. CTV has indicated that it will close stations, all of which cause substantial financial losses, then in that year if the buyer can not be found, and have placed it on the market for only $ 1 each. However, it was reported on June 30, 2009 that Shaw had backed out of the deal and refused to complete the purchase. CHWI-TV will remain in the air as it is; CKNX-TV will be the London CFPL-TV station repeater in September 2009, while CKX-TV will be completely closed in October 2009.
In February 2010, Shaw announced an agreement with a financially troubled Canwest, where Shaw would buy 80% voting interest, and 20% equity interest, in the restructuring of the Canwest entity, awaiting approval from CRTC and others. Three months later, after negotiations with rival bidders, the company said it would buy all Canwest broadcasting assets, including interest in CW Media branches partly held by Goldman Sachs Capital Partners. The Canwest newspaper is not part of the Shaw deal and is sold separately to the Postmedia Network.
The acquisition was completed on October 27, 2010, after the CRTC's approval for the sale was announced on October 22, forming Shaw Media's division.
2012-present
In November 2012, Shaw re-branding the company, introducing updated logos and slogans, along with new promotional campaigns featuring animated robots (including two named mascot robots, Bit and Bud) living in Shaw's infrastructure representation, depicting them responsible answer for how their services work. The campaign was designed by Rethink, a Vancouver-based agency, who is also responsible for the beaver characters of Bell Canada, Frank and Gordon.
In April 2013, Shaw Business Solutions took over the subsidiary Envision Enoff, which has built fiber optic networks throughout Calgary. This acquisition is completed for $ 225 Million.
In 2014, Shaw partnered with Rogers Communications to launch Shomi, a video subscription on demand services.
In February 2015, Shaw Communications announced that it will close operations for call center services in Edmonton, Calgary and Kelowna, and consolidate operations in Victoria, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Montreal. 1,600 of Shaw's 14,000 employees are affected by consolidation and withholding. The company offers employees with the option of moving to a centralized office, applying for a new job at its location, or leaving the company with a severance package for ex-employees who can not be relocated.
In 2013, Shaw strives to begin developing IPTV-based platforms for its television services. However, after experiencing the problem of developing the platform, Shaw took $ 55 million in write-down in June 2015, and announced that it was licensing Comcast's cloud-based X1 architecture. In January 2016, Shaw launched its mobile television application, FreeRange TV, based on X1 infrastructure, allowing Shaw's customers to stream selected TV channels and on-demand content. On January 11, 2017, Shaw launched the X1-based cable service, BlueSky, in Calgary.
Freedom Mobile, media asset divestment
On December 16, 2015, Shaw announced the proposed acquisition of independent wireless provider Wind Mobile from investors in a deal worth approximately $ 1.6 billion. The transaction closed on March 1, 2016. Under Shaw, the company changed its name to Freedom Mobile in November 2016, coinciding with the launch of its 4G LTE network. The Wind acquisition was funded by a reorganization in April 2016, which saw Shaw Media's unit transferred to Corus Entertainment, in exchange for $ 1.85 billion in cash and 71,364,853 grade B shares of non-voting Corus. The sale excludes 50% of Shaw's shares in the Shomi and CJBN-TV Kenora streaming services; Shomi closed in November 2016 and CJBN-TV Kenora closed in January 2017.
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Other activities
Shaw is the parent of Shaw Broadcast Services (formerly Shaw Satellite Services, Canadian Satellite Communications, or Cancom) and, through Shaw Broadcast Services, Shaw Direct, one of Canada's two national direct broadcast satellite providers. Over the years it also has a number of radio stations and special television services; These assets are subsequently split up into Corus Entertainment in an effort to comply with the now-revoked CRTC policies that ignore cross ownership of cabling systems and dedicated services.
Controversy
Internet-based billing
In December 2010, Shaw filed a complaint with CRTC to have a competing internet video service like Netflix classified as a broadcaster under Canadian law. In the same month, Shaw introduced usage-based billing on internet plans and lowered the average package limit by 25% while introducing cost over $ 1 to $ 2 per gigabyte. On February 8, 2011, Shaw agrees to suspend billing based on usage for its services and to this day continuously does not charge additional fees to customers for exceeding the Internet Data limits.
Building eponymous
- Shaw Barlow, Calgary
- Shaw Center, Saskatoon
- Shaw Center, Ottawa
- Shaw Park, Winnipeg
- Shaw Conference Center, Edmonton
- Shaw Court, Calgary (headquarters)
- Shaw Tower, Vancouver
- Shaw Ocean Discovery Center - A non-profit Learning and Cultural Center sponsored by Shaw Communications, Sidney, British Columbia
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See also
- Burning Log (TV program)
- Canwest
- Classicomm
- Cybertip.ca
- List of assets owned by Shaw Communications
- Media ownership in Canada
- Shaw TV
- Telecommunications
Note
External links
- Official website
- Shaw Business Solutions
- CRTC graphs from Shaw Communications assets
- Company Profile Shaw Communications Inc. by the Institute for Media and Communications Policy
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