--------------------------------------------------------------------- The Evening Bridge - February 07, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------- TOP STORY -- Rogers Communications, Canada's largest cable company, denied a report in the National Post saying the company offered 9.3 billion Canadian dollars for the country's No. 2 cable provider, Shaw Communications. In a statement, Toronto-based Rogers said "the purported meeting and offer described in the story did not occur." The company didn't say whether it had made a different offer than the one reported, and a spokeswoman declined to comment beyond the company's statement.
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