EX-99.1 2 ex991.htm NEWS RELEASE DATED SEPTEMBER 22, 2010 ex991.htm
Exhibit 99.1
 
News release via Canada NewsWire, Toronto 416-863-9350

     Attention Business Editors:
     Rogers Communications Prices $900 Million Senior Notes Offering

     TORONTO, Sept. 22 /CNW/ - Rogers Communications Inc. ("Rogers") announced
today that it has priced an offering of $900 million aggregate principal
amount of 4.70% Senior Notes due 2020. The Senior Notes were priced at $999.45
per $1,000 principal amount, for an effective yield of 4.707% per annum if
held to maturity. The Senior Notes will mature on September 29, 2020.
     The net proceeds from the offering will be approximately $895 million,
which are intended to be used to repay outstanding advances under our bank
credit facility and for general corporate purposes. Closing of the offering is
expected to occur on or about September 29, 2010. The Senior Notes will be
issued by Rogers and guaranteed by its wholly owned subsidiary, Rogers
Communications Partnership.
     The Senior Notes are being offered in each of the provinces of Canada
through a syndicate of agents. Rogers will be filing a final prospectus
supplement relating to the offering of the Senior Notes with the securities
regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of Canada. Copies of the final
prospectus supplement and the accompanying short form base shelf prospectus
dated November 30, 2009 may be obtained over the Internet at the Canadian
Securities Administrators' website at www.sedar.com.
     This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy the securities in any jurisdiction. The
securities being offered have not been approved or disapproved by any
regulatory authority nor has any such authority passed upon the accuracy or
adequacy of the short form base shelf prospectus or the prospectus supplement.
     This news release is not an offer for sale within the United States of
any debt or other securities of Rogers. Securities of Rogers, including any
offering of its debt securities, may not be offered or sold in the United
States absent registration under U.S. securities laws or unless exempt from
registration under such laws. The offering of Rogers described in this news
release has not been and will not be registered under U.S. securities laws,
and accordingly, any offer or sale of these securities may be made only in a
transaction exempt from registration.

     About the Company

     Rogers is a diversified Canadian communications and media company. We are
Canada's largest provider of wireless voice and data communications services
and one of Canada's leading providers of cable television, high-speed Internet
and telephony services. 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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