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NBC Universal CEO Cuts the Price of His Delancey Street Home By Almost Half a Million

Comcast COO/NBC Universal CEO Steve Burke put his exquisite house at 1817 Delancey Street on the market in April for $5.6 million. Today it was […]

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Why I’m Quitting Comcast (Again)

Dear Comcast, I won’t burden myself with pleasantries. Frankly, for reasons we both should be keenly aware of, you and I are past that point. […]

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Blind Comcast Exec Working on Next-Generation TV Technology

The Inquirer reports on Tom Wlodkowski, a blind Comcast exec who is trying to develop a talking TV guide for use by the company’s visually impaired […]

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Comcast Improves Customer Service By Not Doing It

Comcast has heard the customer service complaints for years, if not decades. There’s nothing people on Twitter like to do more than gripe about (or […]

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Comcast Profit Rises, Becoming More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine

Wall Street Journal: Comcast Corp.’s second-quarter profit increased 29% as the cable and entertainment company benefited from higher cable prices and growth at its NBCUniversal unit. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]