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Unpaid Interns Sue NBCUniversal in $5 Million Class-Action Lawsuit
The death knell of the era of the unpaid internship continued tolling today, courtesy again of a couple of lowly interns themselves. Following on the […]
Jeepers: Now Comcast Owns Part of Your YouTube, Too
Proving there’s no place on Earth that multimedia content can go that Comcast won’t plant its flag, news arrives that the Philly company has purchased […]
Comcast One Step Closer to Worldwide Internet Domination
Amid all the television-focused debates about them “funding agendas” and monopolizing the cable market, one can forget about the whole internet side of their business. […]
Comcast May Soon Lose Its No.1 World Ranking
The LA Times reports: Comcast Corp. remained the world’s largest pay-TV provider last year with nearly 22 million subscribers, but the Philadelphia-based giant soon could […]
Inside Comcast’s New Super-DVR, the X1
Since my DVR is like the waistline of my pants—usually at maximum capacity—I’ve written about my relationship with Comcast a few times. To say we […]
Tea Party Activists Protest Outside Comcast Shareholders Meeting
At eight o’clock this morning, a dozen Tea Party activists began unfurling handwritten signs and “Don’t Tread on Me” Gadsden flags outside the front entrance […]
NBC Cancels Penn Grad Whitney Cummings’s Show
When he reviewed Penn Grad Whitney Cummings’s new show Whitney in 2011, Rich Rys was nonplussed, but hopeful that it would survive. After two seasons, NBC/Comcast/Kabletown […]
Comcast Getting Reimbursed for Shortened Hockey Season, And You Aren’t
The Flyers were pretty miserable this year, so maybe it’s not such a big deal that a lockout truncated almost half the season. That said, […]
Goliath Squashes David: Comcast Ruling Kills Class-Action Lawsuits
On the morning of March 27th, the corporations finally won their war on the people. A little after 10 a.m., before hearing oral arguments on […]
Anti-MSNBC Organizers Hope for 60,000 Protesters at Comcast Shareholders Meeting
Via Fox News, the Hollywood Reporter lets us know that a tea party group is trying to mobilize 60,000 protesters to rally against MSNBC’s liberal […]
The New York Times Thinks Brian Roberts Is Overpaid
The New York Times‘s David Carr has trained his gimlet-eye on the compensation of megawatt media company CEOs, including Comcast’s Brian Roberts, who earned over […]
Comcast Is Growing Richer and More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine
Hey, President Obama can make all the jokes about NBC that he likes. The truth is that even with the Peacock Network’s putrid schedule generally […]
Why is Mayor Nutter Auctioning Off Chunks of the City in Secret Meetings?
Over at the Comcast Center right now, Mayor Nutter is dressing the city up real nice and showing her off. Because Philadelphia, officially the brokest […]
Public To Be Consulted, Disregarded On Comcast’s Pact With City
It’s that time of decade again: City Hall is now starting the process of deciding whether Comcast will continue to hold the cable TV franchise […]
What Comcast Paid Brian Roberts and Steve Burke Last Year
The numbers are in: Here’s what Philadelphia’s most beloved corporate overlords made last year. Brian Roberts, Comcast CEO: $29 million, up 8% from 2011 Steve […]