October 3, 2011
Payment Date Following September 15,
2011 Record Date
Quarterly Dividend of 35.5 Cents per Share Declared by Board Reflects
11% Increase Announced in February
2011
TORONTO,
Aug. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Rogers
Communications Inc. ("Rogers") announced today that its Board of
Directors declared a quarterly dividend totalling 35.5 cents per share on each of its outstanding
Class B Non-Voting shares and Class A Voting shares.
The quarterly dividend declared today will be
paid on October 3, 2011 to
shareholders of record on September 15,
2011, and is the third quarterly dividend to reflect the
recently increased $1.42 per share
annualized dividend level. Such quarterly dividends are only
payable as and when declared by Rogers' Board and there is no
entitlement to any dividend prior thereto.
About the Company:
Rogers Communications is a diversified Canadian
communications and media company. We are engaged in wireless voice
and data communications services through Wireless, Canada's largest wireless provider. Through
Cable, we are one of Canada's
leading providers of cable television services as well as
high-speed Internet access and telephony services. Through Media,
we are engaged in radio and television broadcasting, televised
shopping, magazines and trade publications, and sports
entertainment. We are publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange
(TSX: RCI.A and RCI.B) and on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:
RCI). For further information about the Rogers group of companies,
please visit www.rogers.com.
SOURCE Rogers Communications Inc.