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Comcast Today: Comcast Will Spend $2.5 Billion on Stock Buybacks

Comcast shareholders: It may be your lucky day…. Bloomberg reports: Comcast Corp. is planning to increase its share buyback program by more than 80 percent […]

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Comcast Today: Most Americans Dislike Time Warner Merger

You know who else is against the Comcast-Time Warner merger? America.

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Consumers Hate Comcast and Time Warner

Bloomberg reports: “Merger partners Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. are two of America’s least favorite cable companies, according to a new survey from Consumer Reports. The cable giants […]

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Area Cable Systems Might Lose Phillies Games

The Inquirer reports that Comcast SportsNet is raising its subscriber charge — charged to local cable systems, which pass the fee on to subscribers — […]

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Xfinity: Philly Loves True Detective

As Comcast gears up for Xfinity’s annual “Watchathon” — hundreds of shows with hundreds of episodes available on-demand, for free, for all cable subscribers from […]

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Comcast Today: Is A Deal in The Works With Apple?

The big news today? Comcast is reportedly talking with Apple about creating a new streaming TV service. Message to cord-cutters: You can’t get away. Stop […]

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Comcast Today: Netflix CEO Criticizes Comcast’s Hold on the Internet

Turns out Netflix isn’t so thrilled with its deal to ensure Comcast customers got fast and uninterrupted streaming of their videos.

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Comcast Issues First “Transparency Report”

Comcast received nearly 25,000 government requests for customer information in 2013, the company said Thursday in its first-ever “transparency report.” “Protecting our customers’ privacy is […]

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NY Governor May Seek Undoing of Comcast Merger

The New York Post reports today that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to strengthen the hand of his state’s cable regulators — proposing new […]

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Comcast Today: States Will Scrutinize Time Warner Merger, Too

It’s not just the federal government that will scrutinze Comcast’s proposed merger with Time Warner. The states are coming, too. Reuters reports: Florida and other […]

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Interview: Comcast Wants Top-Notch Customer Service

This just in: Comcast CEO Brian Roberts knows that you hate his company’s customer service. And he wants to remedy that, he said in an […]

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Comcast Today: Cord Cutters Flee Comcast, Time Warner

Are Comcast and Time Warner merging right at the dawn of cable TV’s extinction?

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Comcast Today: Is NBC Turning Around?

Today’s Comcastic headlines: • “The Blacklist” has become a centerpiece of Mr. Greenblatt’s hard-fought turnaround of NBC, and keeping the show on the air as […]

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Comcast Today: Why Aren’t More Philly Families Signing Up for Cheap Internet?

Today’s top news and commentary about Comcast: • Throughout the country, nearly 12 percent of the families estimated to be eligible for Comcast’s discount program, […]

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Comcast Today: Even Fox News Hates the Time Warner Merger

Even Fox News has problems with the Comcast-Time Warner merger. Or, at least one of the conservative channels contributors, John R. Quain, does. He writes […]