17 Facts About Rogers Cable

Rogers Cable Inc is Canada's largest cable television service provider with about 2.

Rogers Cable is a division of Rogers Communications Partnership, itself wholly owned by Rogers Communications Inc.

In 1980, Rogers purchased Premier Cable, which controlled the system in Vancouver, parts of Ontario, and had investments in Irish cable companies in Dublin, Galway and Waterford.

In 1986 Rogers sold their shares of Irish companies to the Irish state broadcaster and state telecoms company ; these cable companies are now part of the UPC Ireland network.

In 1981, Rogers entered the US cable market, obtaining franchises in Orange County, California; Minneapolis; and Portland, Oregon, and purchased the cable system in San Antonio.

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In March 2000, Rogers Cable agreed to swap systems with Shaw Communications, exchanging its systems in British Columbia for Shaw systems in Quebec and Ontario.

In 2008, Rogers announced a takeover offer for Aurora Cable, a cable service provider in York Region, Ontario.

On September 9,2009, Rogers Cable filed a lawsuit in an attempt to prevent Shaw Communications from acquiring Mountain Cablevision of Hamilton, Ontario, on the basis that the two companies had agreed not to encroach on each other's respective territories, and speculated that Shaw would make other acquisitions in Eastern Canada after buying Mountain.

In 2010, a corporate reorganization resulted in Rogers Cable being dissolved as a distinct legal entity, and its operations absorbed into Rogers Communications Partnership, a general partnership jointly held by Rogers Communications and its subsidiary Fido Solutions.

In October 2015, Rogers Cable announced that it would begin to offer 4K-compatible set-top boxes, beginning in Toronto and expanding to its other markets in 2016.

In December 2016, Rogers Cable announced that it had scrapped a planned project to deploy an IPTV-based television platform, and would instead license Comcast's X1 platform Shaw launched its own service based on X1, BlueSky, in January 2017.

Rogers Cable currently serves most larger communities in Newfoundland and Labrador, nearly all of New Brunswick, selected areas of eastern Quebec near the New Brunswick border, and in Ontario, including nearly all of the Toronto area as well as the areas of Ottawa, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, Barrie, and parts of Hamilton.

Rogers Cable previously operated a chain of video rental stores known as Rogers Plus; it launched as Rogers Video in 1988, after which it grew by acquiring smaller chains.

In July 2009, Rogers Cable announced that on August 18,2009, they would be replacing PBS affiliates WQLN of Erie, Pennsylvania and WPBS-TV of Watertown, New York on its London and Ottawa systems, respectively, with Detroit, Michigan's PBS station, WTVS.

On July 30,2009, it was announced that Rogers Cable would keep WPBS and WQLN on its systems, after both stations announced a fibre-based connection with Rogers Cable.

Rogers Cable began to address these issues with a new version it began to deploy in December 2015.

The broadcast was, ironically, being carried by Rogers Cable-owned network Sportsnet 360, prompting The Globe and Mail to compare the incident to the Heidi game.