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Rogers Media operates radio and television broadcasting operations, consumer and trade publishing operations, televised home shopping service and Rogers Sports Entertainment. In addition to Media’s more traditional broadcast and print media platforms, it also delivers content and conducts e-commerce over the Internet relating to many of its individual broadcasting and publishing properties.
Media’s Broadcasting group comprises 52 radio stations across Canada; multicultural OMNI television stations; the five station Citytv television network; a specialty sports television service that provides regional sports programming across Canada (Rogers Sportsnet), and Canada’s only nationally televised shopping service, The Shopping Channel. Media also holds 50% ownership in Dome Productions, a mobile production and distribution joint venture that is a leader in HDTV production in Canada. Broadcasting also owns The Biography Channel Canada and G4TechTV Canada and holds interests in several Canadian specialty television services, including Viewers Choice Canada.
Media’s Publishing group publishes 78 consumer magazines and trade and professional publications and directories in Canada.
In addition to its organic growth, Media expanded its business in 2007 through the following initiatives: the acquisition of five radio stations located in Edmonton and Fort McMurray, Alberta, including licences in several small Alberta markets; and the acquisition of five Citytv television stations located in Toronto, Ontario; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta; and Vancouver, British Columbia.
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