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Rogers Communications Inc. (, , ) is one of Canada's largest communications companies, particularly in the field of wireless communications and cable television, with additional telecommunications and mass media assets. Edward S. "Ted" Rogers is the company's controlling shareholder and chief executive. The company considers its history to date back to the Rogers Vacuum Tube Company founded by Edward S. Rogers, Sr., which started CFRB (RB stands for "Rogers Batteryless"). However, the current company's history dates back to the formation of Aldred-Rogers Broadcasting (originally co-owned with Joel Aldred), which acquired CHFI-FM in 1960 and helped launch CFTO-TV in 1961. Its primary competition is Bell Canada. The company began with Edward S. Rogers, Sr., who had envisioned radio as an electric pipeline, reaching into people’s homes to entertain, inform and educate. In 1925, Rogers, Sr. invented the world’s first alternating current (AC) radio tube, which then enabled radios to be... full article at wikipedia

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Created by Metaweb Oct 22, 2006
Last edited by mwcl_images May 8, 2008

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