“Cable TV mogul Ted Rogers has died at his Toronto home at the age of 75,” Kristine Owram reports or The Canadian Press.
“Ted Rogers, creator of Canada’s largest cable-television and mobile-phone company, has died at his Toronto home at the age of 75,” Owram reports. “The founder of Rogers Communications Inc. had been treated in hospital in October for an existing heart condition.”
“In addition to the Rogers cable, wireless, radio and television businesses, the company owns the Toronto Blue Jays and their home the Rogers Centre, five Citytv stations and an array of other media properties including Maclean’s and Chatelaine magazines,” Owram reports.
“Rogers stayed on top of developments in telecommunications, branching out into cheap long-distance telephone service, cellphones and high-speed Internet,” Owram reports. “Most recently, the company became the sole Canadian distributor of Apple’s spectacularly selling iPhone.”
Full article here.
He will be missed!
I for one love Rogers… so I hope too many things don’t change.
Marco, I’m so sorry for your loss. Your father will be missed.
Those who say he was a greedy bastard were just upset with their cable or cell phone bills.
No matter what a human can grab along his life, it is all to be gone at the end…
This counts for the bucks and… for the believes too…
3-2-1?
YES! now i patiently wait for the rest of the rogers family to pass on.
Miserable old f*sk, the Harold Ballard of the communications industry.
Made The Grinch appear magnanimous.
I’ll really miss him – sniff
Not that his loaded heirs need to save money on coffin and funeral costs, but the greedy bastard was so crooked they can just screw him into the ground.
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful – that’s what matters to me.” – Steve Jobs
One must never speak ill of the dead.
So this is the end of my response to this story.
Ah, the internet:
Where the impotent, the ignored, the weak, the ignorant, and the great unwashed, huddled masses vent their frustrations, contumely, and enmity against the world. How did we ever get along without it?
@randian
we just shot them before.
with the internet, we can just vent it all out.
What will Dusty Bin do for company?
How and Why is this Mac news?
@ Mr. Reeeeeeeeeee
His business in Canada was the only one able to sell iphones.
So our only Canadian Apple connection?
bah humbug!
Now that he is gone, the others will increase the rates as he charged high enough as it is.
the whole outrage etc when rogers released their plan for the iphone this summer?
might not have aired where you live. (under a rock?)
we all signed a petition wanting him dead. also, to report rogers and the rest of the bunch to the government etc. but the kill rogers part is my favourite.
the iphone caused all this.
hell the iphone could have caused his death.
yay iphone
I’ll miss the “Neighborhood of Make Believe” the most.
This guy was a dick. He played Canadians like a cheap piano. For him, it was all about manipulating the customer, nickel and diming the crap out of them and doing whats best for his bank account.
They intentionally hold back technology and then charge extra for things that are given away in the states. i.e. an extra $5 for voicemail?!!!!
Good Riddance!
One less corrupt, monopolising, cheating bastardo to distort the so called free market economy of Canada.
Rogers is the new Hudson Bay company of Canada, and that was a direct result of Ted Rogers active market manipulations, forceful tactics and political friends in the right places. For Ted Rogers, Canada existed to provide him with nothing more than a grand consumer base for the greatest monopoly seen since the beavers went out of fashion in Europe.
Bye bye Ted, you will not be missed…
whether he was greedy or not… i still love Rogers lol
Ted Rogers’ funeral likely will be packed to the rafters with “mourners.”
He’ll give ’em what they want.
we should make it a national holiday here in canada. it can be like halloween, but everyone dresses up as greedy business men burning in hell
This jerk was a key part of the lobby group who convinced our government (CRTC) that if people were allowed to use third party PVRs/DVRs/cablebox decoders it would only lead to rampant theft. Now the Canadian media providers have a captive market and charge exorbitant prices for services and products that cost hundreds less in any other country, while simultaneously providing the worst in products and services.
I just can’t feel sorry he’s gone when his mafioso legacy will be leeching money from my wallet for the rest of my life.
@Brau
they also got rid of TV antennas. they took a HUGE “loan” from the government “to get them through the recession” (last recession), they took the money, used it to up their tech, and then charged us for it. did we get the money back from the “loan”. no. so we basically paid for it twice.
did you know rogers wanted to charge you PER EMAIL when they first started their ISP?
Who gives a sh*t. He made money, whooped it up and died after a long life. There are other people that can provide the same service so it was NOT like he was a humanitarian that helped humankind.
Big effin whoop though I am always sorry for the family.
So did he get the car or the holiday?