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overview
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landmarks
This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
Context
is provided by the broader communications and media timeline.
beginnings
1967 JR Shaw forms Capital Cable Television
1969 IPO of Shaw Pipe Industries Ltd
1970 gains cable tv license
1971 Capital Cable connects first customer in Sherwood
Park (Alberta)
1971 Capital Cable changes its name to Capital Cable TV
1972 buys SOTV Holdings (Penticton, Kelowna and Revelstoke)
1974 provides US ABC network access to Edmonton
1975 approval for Fort Saskatchewan
1976 adds NBC (KHQ-TV) access to Edmonton
1980 buys Urban Cablevision network in Langford &
Sooke (British Columbia)
1980 adds Bedford/Sackville (Nova Scotia)
1981 buys Cable West TV
1981 extends service to Lamont, Bruderheim and Redwater
(Alberta)
1982 agreement with Superchannel Pay TV to carry service
in Edmonton and Red Deer (Alberta)
1983 company listed on TSE and ASE
1983 launches pay tv service
1983 buys White Rock Cablevision in BC
1983 buys Avalon Cablevision in Alberta
1983 buys new property in Edmonton (Alberta)
Shaw Cablesystems
1984 name changed to Shaw Cablesystems
1985 buys Port Alberni (British Columbia) cable tv system
1987 buys CKGY, CIZZ, CHEC and CKTA radio stations from
Park Country Broadcasting and Southern Alberta Broadcasting
1987 buys Western Cable TV system (Woodstock & Ingersoll)
1987 buys Cowichan Cablesystems
1988 buys assets of CFCR (Red Deer)
1989 buys New Glasgow (Nova Scotia) system
1989 buys Central Interior Cable Vision
1989 buys Rocky Mountain CATV (Hinton, Alberta)
1990 introduces Real Estate Teleguide in Nanaimo, Prince
George, Edmonton, Kelowna and Penticton
1991 buys Saskatoon Telecable (Saskatoon and Prince Albert,
Saskatchewan)
1991 Shaw Pipeline Services formed
1992 Shaw Communications buys Cablecasting Limited
into radio
1992 buys Vancouver radio stations CFOX and CKLG
1992 buys CHQT Radio (Edmonton)
1993 corporate name change to Shaw Communications
1994 buys CUC
1994 buys Classicomm Communications
1994 buys Bay Cable (Nanoose Bay, BC)
1994 buys Royal Oak Cable (Victoria)
1994 buys Chinook Cable (Ft St. John, BC)
1994 buys ABC Cable (Ft McMurray, AB)
1994 buys Prairie Co-Ax (Moosejaw, Saskatchewan)
1994 buys Albion Cable (Bolton, ON)
1994 buys Orangeville Cable
1994 buys Morrill's Cable (Schreiber, Ontario)
1996 launches internet service in Calgary
1997 alliance with @Home
1998 lists on NYSE
1998 buys CKNW (Vancouver), CFI (Vancouver), QR77 (Calgary),
Power 107 FM (Calgary), 630 CHED (Edmonton), Power 92
(Edmonton), CJOB/68 (Winnipeg), Power 97 (Winnipeg), Q107
(Toronto), Talk 640 (Toronto), 900 CHML (Hamilton), Y95
(Hamilton) radio stations
1998 buys Cancom (53.7% WIC owned)
1998 buys Viewers Choice Pay Per View (Western Canada),
Superchannel, Movie Max, Family Channel (50%)
1998 buys Teletoon (40% Family Channel Owned)
1998 buys Canadian Broadcast Sales (50% owned)
Corus
1999 establishes Corus Entertainment
1999 buys 75% interest in Access Communications (with
a 45% interest in Halifax Cablevision.)
1999 buys Access Communications Bedford Sackville
1999 buys Fundy Communications
2000 buys Power Broadcasting from Desmarais' Power
Corporation for C$107.5m
2001 buys satellite services provider Canadian Satellite
Communications (Cancom)
2001 Shaw Pieline Industries becomes ShawCor Ltd
2001 Shaw Communications buys Moffatt Communications (
Videon cable and WTN) for C$1.2bn
2001 Corus sells remaining 50% of The Family Channel to
Astral
2001 Corus buys 14.95% interest in The Comedy Network
from Astral
2006 buys radio stations The Beat FM (Kitchener) and Cool
FM (Winnipeg) from CanWest for
C$15m
2006 Astral and Corus agree to acquire remaining 20% of
TELETOON network from shareholders of The Cookie Jar Group
for C$96m
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