High Wire的崛起High Wire Act : Ted Rogers and the Empire that Debt Built
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作者： Caroline Van Hasselt著
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出版时间： 2007-11-1字数：版次： 1页数： 530印刷时间： 2007/11/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780470152966包装： 精装编辑推荐
作者简介：
Caroline Van Hasselt (Toronto, ON) is an awardwinning reporter with an almost 20-year career in journalism. She previously was Boston Bureau Chief for Bloomberg News and a reporter with the Financial Times of Canada. One of her notable achievements includes being the first to break the news of Royal Bank’s ultimately failed merger with Bank of Montreal. In addition to being a journalist, Caroline has also worked as a senior investigator at Canada’s foremost forensic accounting firm.
内容简介
There has possibly never been a more daring business figure in Canada’s history than Ted Rogers. Hailed by some as a visionary with an incomparable insight, and equally loathed by others as a ruthless opportunist, Ted Rogers relentlessly conquered his rivals in three industries – radio, cable television and cellular telephony. High Wire Act is an unprecedented, in-depth analysis into how Ted Rogers, driven by the psychological need to restore his family's name, leveraged his stake in a small Toronto FM radio station and propelled it into a media and telecommunications behemoth worth over $23 billion. The many topics covered in the book include details on Rogers’…
Unmatched ability to foresee the convergence of cable and telephony before anyone else did
Insatiable appetite for debt and risk taking, and how he bet his company three times to carry out his vision
Shrewd political and regulatory maneuvers that always kept him one step ahead of his competitors and political adversaries such as Bell and the Aspers
Opportunistic acquisition of the Toronto Blue Jays
High Wire Act is a fascinating and one-of-a-kind look into one of Canada’s most audacious and visionary business figures of the past fifty years. Every Canadian business reader will be enthralled by this enduring success story of Canada’s only true telecommunications mogul.
目录
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Not Your Average Cable Guy
Act One: Radio
Chapter 1: 3BP
Chapter 2: Club 405
Chapter 3: Rogers, Bassett and the BBG
Chapter 4:680 Radio
Chapter 5: "The Hardest Fight of My Life"
Act Two: Cable
Chapter 6: The Cable Guy
Chapter 7: Enter Phil Lind, the Banks and the CRTC
Chapter 8: Predatory Strike
Chapter 9: Taking on America: Part I: Urban Oil Wells
Chapter 10: Taking on America: Part II: A Hell of a Marriage
Chapter 11: Taking on America: Part III: He11 on Wheels
Act Three: Wireless
Chapter 12: Cutting the Cord: The Birth of Cantel
Chapter 13: Twelve Months to Launch
Chapter 14: The Put
Chapter 15: Ownership Gambit
Act Four: Riverboat Gambler
Chapter 16: Unitel: Here We Go Again
Chapter 17: Blood Sport
Chapter 18: WAVE Good-Bye
Chapter 19: The Terrible Nineties
Chapter 20: Fido, Heel
Chapter 21: A Mug's Game
Chapter 22: The Five Final Years
Chapter 23: Are You Rogered?
Epilogue: Vindication
Appendix: A Ted Rogers Q&A
Endnotes
Partial Bibliography
Index
