Rogers board votes to remove Edward Rogers as chair

tml

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John Tory was involved in this- on Toronto taxpayers time.
He has a vested financial interest-sell Skydome for condo development.
His blood is red-Rogers red.
John Tory reportedly tried to help broker a peace. Can you imaging if Rob Ford did the same thing, what the reaction would have been?
 

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Maybe it's just a coincidence, but since Ted Rogers passed away, and Nadir Mohammed(?sp) retired, the quality of the FAN590 has steadily declined. Back then The FAN was firmly ahead of TSN radio in ratings for all time slots and age groups. Much different now.
 

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Maybe it's just a coincidence, but since Ted Rogers passed away, and Nadir Mohammed(?sp) retired, the quality of the FAN590 has steadily declined. Back then The FAN was firmly ahead of TSN radio in ratings for all time slots and age groups. Much different now.
Speaking of radio stations, CityNews (formerly 680NEWs) have some weird announcers/hosts.
They try to tell time without actually saying the actual hour.

Example: It is now 25 minutes past the hour (but they don't tell you the actual hour).
 
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Your post is the first to mention radio.
More nonsense and annoyance, per the usual. Before my post, another member mentioned FAN 590 (quoted below) which you probably didn't know is a radio station. I was responding to that member.
"the quality of the FAN590 has steadily declined"

You probably also don't know that CityNews is owned by Rogers.
 

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More nonsense and annoyance, per the usual. Before my post, another member mentioned FAN 590 (quoted below) which you probably didn't know is a radio station. I was responding to that member.
"the quality of the FAN590 has steadily declined"

You probably also don't know that CityNews is owned by Rogers.
Complaining about how they announce the time on 680 News has absolutely nothing to do with the Rogers family feud and how it affects the corporation, the topic of this thread. It also has nothing to do with FAN590.

You are derailing a thread.
 

tml

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We were speaking about the board of directors at Rogers and Rogers is not a radio station.

Your post is the first to mention radio.
I'll take responsibility for being the first to mention radio. Simply put, I felt Rogers interests in the radio business started to suffer once under the control of Edward Rogers, whereas it flourished under Ted.
 

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Surprised how few people here seem to know anything about corporations. Guessing corp execs have trouble carving out time to hobby, so maybe most Terbites are entrepreneurs in some way.

John Tory ran Rogers for years, hence his credibility with the Board. Ted Rogers started with his father’s radio station (I think CFRB), hence their dominance in radio. Between Rogers and Bell they own nearly all TV and radio broadcasters in Ontario and most in Canada outside of Quebec.

Edward is widely known to be nearly a moron, but in a decades-long battle with his sisters, esp. Melinda, who is much smarter but never ran a business whereas Edward ran cable.

The battle was at a detante with the ousting of Guy Lawrence and hiring of Joe Natale, whom both Edward and Melinda supported.

But Edward has always played a long game, and intends to literally become his father and master of all Rogers business interests.

Those around him mostly block his ambitions because of a fear that he will destroy the company and the stock price, because as I mentioned - he’s a moron.
 
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