Aurora Cable Internet

Aurora Cable Internet
Type	Public
Industry	Communications Services
Founded	Aurora, Ontario
Headquarters	Aurora, Ontario
Products	Cable TV, Internet, Telecommunications
Website	http://www.aci.on.ca

Aurora Cable Internet was a Canadian company that provided digital cable television, cable Internet and VOIP service in the towns of Aurora and Oak Ridges, Ontario. Founded by Jim Irvine, Aurora Cable was the town's only cable provider from the time of its inception in 1969 until its eventual takeover in 2008. Along with providing cable service it also produced a series of community-based programs to help inform Aurora residents of local events and services. Some of these shows aired for many years including Sports Beat (hosted by Lowell McClenny) and Our Town (which was hosted my former Aurora mayor Dick Illingworth). In its final year of broadcast ACI's programming line-up included Plugged In, Bookmarks, Fit & Fabulous, Sports Beat, Our Town, On The Money, Council In Action, Body Mind & Spirit, @aci:The Internet Show and Tigers This Week. Fit & Fabulous was the only ACI show brought over to continue production with Rogers TV York Region.

For many years Aurora Cable provided weekly live-to-tape broadcasts of the OPJHL Aurora Tigers. During playoffs every Aurora Tigers game was broadcast, featuring play-by-play provided by Scott Ferguson, and colour commentary by Anthony Regan. These broadcasts were produced and directed by station manager Steve Mitchell. Under his guidance Aurora Cable (ACI) became the first Canadian community channel to broadcast entirely in HD.

The company used Docsis ver. 2.0 systems.

ACI was the last remaining independently owned cable distributor in the Greater Toronto Area. Apart from Aurora, the region is served exclusively by larger national cable companies, either Rogers Cable or Cogeco.

In early 2008, Rogers received CRTC approval to overbuild portions of Aurora Cable's service area, a move that Aurora had opposed.^[1] Shortly thereafter, Rogers announced an agreement to purchase Aurora Cable Internet, pending CRTC approval.^[2]

The purchase agreement was finalized and approved on June 12, 2008 and Aurora Cable Internet became part of Rogers Cable services.

References

↑ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2008-11, January 18, 2008
↑ Rogers Cable press release, February 13, 2008

Cable, satellite, and other specialty television providers in Canada

Terrestrial and satellite

Satellite

Cable

Major¹	Bell (Cablevision for Val-d'Or, QC) Cogeco (Ontario, Quebec) EastLink (Atlantic, Northern Ontario, Western Canada) Look Communications MTS Cable (Manitoba) Rogers Cable (Ontario, New Brunswick) Source (Hamilton, ON) Shaw (Western Canada, Northwestern Ontario) Vidéotron (Quebec)

Minor	Access (Saskatchewan) Cable Axion (Magog, QC) CityWest (Prince Rupert, BC) DERYtelecom (Saguenay, QC) Novus Cable (select areas of BC Lower Mainland) Omineca Cablevision (Prince George, BC) Westman (Brandon, MB)

See also	Defunct cable and DBS companies of Canada

IPTV

MMDS

Craig Wireless

Africa, Asia, and Oceania
Americas
Europe

¹More than 400,000 television service subscribers.

Rogers Communications

Corporate directors

Fixed-line telecommunications

Mobile telecommunications

Magazines

Television

Conventional
television

City	Stations CITY-DT CHMI-DT CJNT-DT CKAL-DT CKEM-DT CKVU-DT

Omni Television	Stations CFMT-DT CHNM-DT CJCO-DT CJEO-DT CJMT-DT

Other	Hockey Night in Canada⁵

Cable
television

City	City Saskatchewan

Sportsnet	Sportsnet 360 Sportsnet regional channels East Ontario West Pacific Sportsnet One Sportsnet PPV WWE Network Sportsnet World

MLSE	Leafs TV NBA TV Canada

Other channels	Cable 14¹ CPAC FX FXX G4 OLN Rogers TV¹ TV Rogers (French)¹ The Shopping Channel Viceland

Radio stations

AM	CFAC CFFR CFTR CIRS CIWW CJCL CKAT CKGL CKWX

FM	CFGP-FM CFLT-FM CFRV-FM CHAS-FM CHBN-FM CHST-FM CHDI-FM CHEZ-FM CHFI-FM CHFM-FM CHMN-FM CHTT-FM CHUR-FM CHYM-FM CIKR-FM CIKZ-FM CIOC-FM CISQ-FM CISS-FM CITI-FM CJAQ-FM CJAX-FM CJET-FM CJMX-FM CJNI-FM CJOK-FM CJQM-FM CJQQ-FM CJRQ-FM CJRX-FM CKBY-FM CKER-FM CKFX-FM CKGB-FM CKIS-FM CKIZ-FM CKKS-FM CKMH-FM CKQC-FM CKSR-FM CKXC-FM CKY-FM CKYX-FM WLYK²

Radio networks	Jack FM (most Canadian stations) Sportsnet Radio

Other assets

Hockey Night in Canada³
Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (37.5%)
Rogers Bank
Rogers Media
Rogers Plus
Spring Fishing Show
Toronto Blue Jays
Shomi
Vuguru

Facilities

Owned	33 Dundas Street East 545 Lake Shore Boulevard West Rogers Building Rogers Centre Rogers Park

Sponsored	Rogers Arena Rogers K-Rock Centre Rogers Place

Leased	Canadian Broadcasting Centre⁴

Acquisitions and historic brands

Direct acquisitions	Aurora Cable Internet Cable Atlantic Maclean-Hunter Selkirk Communications Newton Cable Score Media Sprint Canada

Systems resold by Shaw	Classicomm Fundy Cable Graham Cable Mountain Cablevision Trillium Cable

Defunct channels	CityNews Channel Viewers Choice MSNBC Canada GolTV The Biography Channel

Some assets listed above are only partially owned by Rogers Communications. Refer to each individual article for detailed information.

¹Community channels owned (or part-owned) by Rogers Cable
²U.S. border station operated by Rogers under a local marketing agreement
³Brand used under license from the CBC.
⁴Studio 41 and its eighth floor offices are leased from the CBC for its NHL coverage.
⁵Part-time network broadcast over the same stations as CBC Television; see CRTC Decision 2015-154

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