SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16
UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
January 12, 2017
Commission File Number: 001-14684
Shaw Communications Inc.
(Translation of registrant’s name into English)
Suite 900, 630 – 3rd Avenue S.W., Calgary, Alberta T2P 4L4 (403) 750-4500
(Address of principal executive offices)
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
| Shaw Communications Inc. | ||||||
| Date: January 12, 2017 | ||||||
| By: | /s/ Vito Culmone | |||||
| Name: | Vito Culmone | |||||
| Title: | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | |||||
| Shaw Communications Inc. | ||||||
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NEWS RELEASE |
SHAW ANNOUNCES AGM VOTE RESULTS
Calgary, Alberta (January 12, 2017) – Shaw Communications Inc. (“Shaw”) announced that, at its annual general meeting held earlier today, the resolutions proposed in Shaw’s proxy circular were carried.
The detailed results from the annual general meeting are as follows.
| 1. | Election of each of the following fifteen nominees as directors of the Corporation (by ballot): |
| Votes For | Votes Withheld | |||||||||||||||
| # | % | # | % | |||||||||||||
| Peter J. Bissonnette |
19,951,538 | >99.99 | 200 | – | ||||||||||||
| Adrian I. Burns |
19,951,738 | 100.00 | – | – | ||||||||||||
| Richard R. Green |
19,951,538 | >99.99 | 200 | – | ||||||||||||
| Lynda Haverstock |
19,948,453 | 99.98 | 3,285 | 0.02 | ||||||||||||
| Gregg Keating |
19,948,453 | 99.98 | 3,285 | 0.02 | ||||||||||||
| Michael W. O’Brien |
19,951,538 | >99.99 | 200 | – | ||||||||||||
| Paul K. Pew |
19,951,738 | 100.00 | – | – | ||||||||||||
| Jeffrey C. Royer |
19,951,738 | 100.00 | – | – | ||||||||||||
| Bradley S. Shaw |
19,951,738 | 100.00 | – | – | ||||||||||||
| Jim Shaw |
19,951,738 | 100.00 | – | – | ||||||||||||
| JR Shaw |
19,951,538 | >99.99 | 200 | – | ||||||||||||
| JC Sparkman |
19,948,253 | 99.98 | 3,485 | 0.02 | ||||||||||||
| Carl E. Vogel |
19,951,588 | >99.99 | 150 | – | ||||||||||||
| Sheila C. Weatherill |
19,951,538 | >99.99 | 200 | – | ||||||||||||
| Willard H. Yuill |
19,948,253 | 99.98 | 3,485 | 0.02 | ||||||||||||
| 2. | Appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditors of the Corporation (by show of hands – proxy result shown): |
| Votes For | Votes Withheld | |||||||||||||||
| # | % | # | % | |||||||||||||
| 19,901,118 | 100.00 | – | – | |||||||||||||
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About Shaw Communications Inc.
Shaw is an enhanced connectivity provider. Our Consumer division serves consumers with broadband Internet, Shaw Go WiFi, video and digital phone. Our Wireless division provides wireless voice and data services through an expanding and improving mobile wireless network infrastructure. The Business Network Services division provides business customers with Internet, data, WiFi, telephony, video and fleet tracking services. The Business Infrastructure Services division, through ViaWest, provides hybrid IT solutions including colocation, cloud computing and security and compliance for North American enterprises.
Shaw is traded on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges and is included in the S&P/TSX 60 Index (Symbol: TSX - SJR.B, SJR.PR.A, SJR.PR.B, NYSE – SJR, and TSXV – SJR.A). For more information, please visit www.shaw.ca.
For further information, please contact:
Shaw Investor Relations investor.relations@sjrb.ca