Exhibit 99.1

News release via Canada NewsWire, Toronto 416-863-9350

	    Attention Business Editors:
	    Rogers Agrees to Purchase 900,000 Class B Non-Voting Shares for
	    Cancellation in Private Purchase

	    TORONTO, July 29 /CNW/ - Rogers Communications Inc. ("Rogers") announced
today that it has agreed to purchase for cancellation 900,000 of its
outstanding Class B Non-Voting shares ("Class B shares"), or approximately
0.18% of the Class B shares outstanding at June 30, 2009, pursuant to a
private agreement between Rogers and an arm's-length third party seller (the
"Private Purchase") for an aggregate purchase price of $24,282,000. The
Private Purchase was made under an issuer bid exemption order issued by the
Ontario Securities Commission. The Class B shares purchased under the Private
Purchase will be included in calculating the number of Class B shares that
Rogers may purchase through its outstanding normal course issuer bid.
	    In the twelve months preceding this purchase, Rogers has repurchased an
aggregate 19,557,400 Class B shares, of which an aggregate 9,230,000 Class B
shares were repurchased pursuant to issuer bid exemption orders issued by the
Ontario Securities Commission and an aggregate 10,327,400 Class B shares were
repurchased pursuant to normal course issuer bids. Of the 19,557,400 Class B
shares repurchased, an aggregate 3,077,400 Class B shares were repurchased
during 2008 and an aggregate 16,480,000 Class B shares were repurchased in
2009.

	    About the Company:

	    We are a diversified Canadian communications and media company. We are
engaged in wireless voice and data communications services through Rogers
Wireless, Canada's largest wireless provider and the operator of the country's
only national GSM and HSPA based network. Through Rogers Cable we are one of
Canada's largest providers of cable television services as well as high-speed
Internet access, telephony services and video retailing. Through Rogers 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).

	    %CIK: 0000733099

	    /For further information: Lorraine Daly, (416) 935-3575,
lorraine.daly(at)rci.rogers.com/
	    (RCI.A. RCI.B. RCI)

CO:  Rogers Communications Inc.

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