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15 unusual facts about Comcast


2007 BYU Cougars football team

DirecTV continued to negotiate with Comcast for distribution in the MWC "footprint", but Dish Network discontinued negotiations until the FCC resolved a legal question regarding the Big Ten Network (BTN) that could potentially affect the mtn.

Alien Nine

The anime was licensed and released in North America by Central Park Media, with the series being aired across the region on Comcast's Select On Demand service.

Brain Drill

A music video was later created for the song and is featured on Comcast on-demand.

Bright House Sports Network

The first few games were rebroadcasts from Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast (CSS) and the CBS College Sports Network; however, on January 6, 2009 Bright House Sports Network produced its first UCF basketball game against the College of the Holy Cross.

Certified email

CertifiedEmail has been adopted by seven of the top 10 ISPs in the USA: AOL, AT&T, Comcast, Cox, Road Runner, Verizon, and Yahoo.

Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast

CSS also broadcasts the WNBA's Atlanta Dream, Major League Lacrosse, Southern League and South Atlantic League Minor League baseball, and previously broadcast the Arena Football League's Georgia Force, Orlando Predators and Tampa Bay Storm, and some CFL contests.

DMARC

This means that senders will experience consistent authentication results for their messages at AOL, Comcast, Gmail, Hotmail, Mail.ru, Netease, XS4ALL, Yahoo! and any other email receiver implementing DMARC.

Explorer 8300

Several providers currently support external SATA drives, including Time Warner, Comcast, Cablevision, Rogers and Charter.

Grave Encounters

The film was released on August 25, 2011 in select theaters using the Eventful Demand It and Video on Demand via Comcast.

Kabletown, West Virginia

This also is the name of a fictitious company parodying Comcast, depicted in the TV series 30 Rock.

KCRT-TV

Now telecast on Channel 28 throughout the Comcast service areas, KCRT is currently seen in Richmond, El Cerrito, Marina Bay, Brickyard Cove, San Pablo, Kensington, Albany and portions of El Sobrante.

Liquid electricity

Comcast's commercials for its "high-speed Internet" service portrayed a similar substance (a mercury-like substance that could be rubbed onto machines, shoes, or even drunk) that was used, again, for a comedy punchline.

Tallahassee Wine and Food Festival

Media sponsors include some of Tallahassee's print media such as the Tallahassee Democrat, Tallahassee Magazine as well as broadcast media such as Comcast and Clear Channel Communications.

Tom Herrion

Herrion spent the 2006–07 year working as a television commentator for both ESPN Regional and Comcast, providing analysis for Conference USA games.

WNFM-TV

sister stations = Comcast Sports Southeast|


1080i

In the United States, 1080i is the preferred format for most broadcasters, with Discovery Communications, Viacom, Time Warner, Comcast owned networks broadcasting in the format; along with most smaller broadcasters.

Bresnan Communications

Bresnan re-entered the cable business in April 2002, with the $735 million purchase of former AT&T Broadband Rocky Mountain systems from Comcast.

Comcast C2 Charleston

The sister stations include Comcast C4, serving the Augusta, Georgia market and Comcast C7, seen in Savannah, Georgia.

Comcast NBC merger

Four months later, Meredith Attwell Baker, the FCC commissioner who approved the deal, was hired as a lobbyist by Comcast.

Comcast Network

Comcast Network Sports, a division of NBC Sports, produces and airs more than 200 local, regional and national sports events each year.

Denyce Lawton

Amongst her accomplishments, Denyce has also become the new, fresh and first African American-Asian face of the AZN Comcast Campaign as well as a SummerCampaign for Coors Light.

Elemental Technologies

Media and entertainment companies using Elemental products include the BBC, Big Ten Network, CBS Interactive, Columbus Communications, Comcast, Deltatre, Disney, ESPN, Eurosport, Foxtel, HBO, MLB, National Geographic, NBA, NHK, PBS, QVC, Telefonica, Terra Networks, TF1, VMMA, Warner Bros., WRN Broadcast, Viacom and Vubiquity.

ESPN Deportes

ESPN Deportes is available on some cable systems including Comcast, AT&T, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Brighthouse Networks, as well as on Dish Network and DirecTV.

Felger

Michael Felger (born 1969), a television sports reporter and anchorman for Comcast SportsNet New England

Flint Hill School

Ronny Thompson, Emmy Award-winning broadcaster for Comcast SportsNet.

Insider Exclusive

The Insider Exclusive television show regularly produces original Dateline, 60 Minutes, 20/20, and Prime Time style television shows for the public and broadcasts them on major cable networks such as PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Tru-TV, Fox, Time Warner and Comcast, Cox, Charter, A & E, Discovery, TLC, and Bravo.

Jeff McEnery

McEnery has also been involved in acting, starring in the feature films "Dog Pound" and "Camille" as well as CTV's "Many Happy Returns" ad campaign and several commercials (Wendy's, Doritos, Comcast etc.) He has made guest appearances on the shows Naturally, Sadie, "The Jon Dore Television Show" and "Covert Affairs" and was also a cast member on the Comedy Network's sketch series "Hotbox".

Joe Ricketts

In October 2009, the Ricketts family acquired a 95 percent controlling interest in Major League Baseball’s Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, as well as 20 percent of Comcast Sportsnet Chicago.

KFFV

Previously, the analog broadcast (UHF 45) was exclusively Azteca América, while the Comcast broadcast of this channel (Channel 15) is Jewelry TV.

Lady Kinvara Balfour

In August 2008 DailyCandy.com was sold to Comcast for a reported US$125 million by its then owner media-mogul Robert Pittman an American entrepreneur and the founder of MTV and ex-COO of America Online, Inc and AOL Time Warner.

Lithium Technologies

The company sells largely to enterprise customers, including HP, Best Buy, Research In Motion, Sony, Comcast, Symantec, and AT&T.

Major League Baseball on SportsChannel

In October 2004, FSN Chicago lost broadcast rights to all of the professional sports teams in the Chicago area when the owners of the Bulls, the White Sox, the Blackhawks, and the Cubs decided to end their agreement with the network and partnered with Comcast to form Comcast SportsNet Chicago.

Media Access Project

One of the bigger cases that lead to current net neutrality rules was in 2007 when internet service provider Comcast was caught directly manipulating or blocking their subscriber’s access to the popular file sharing service BitTorrent.

Ralph Roberts

Ralph J. Roberts (born 1920), co-founder of Comcast Communications

Richard R. Lee

Lee is also a director for various TV programs, including Comcast Game of The Weeks High School Basketball and Football games, Contra Costa Television's Ask The Doctor and The Languages of Sound and Movement.

Ripe Digital Entertainment

The services were mainly distributed through cable video on demand services such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable and FiOS, along with syndication through the AOL, Google and Yahoo ad networks.

Sandusky, Michigan

WDCQ channel 19 (PBS) from Bad Axe is also available over-the-air, but is not seen on Comcast.

Sharon J. Coleman

Judge Coleman is the presiding judge in Scottie Pippen's defamation lawsuit against Comcast, GE, CBS, Arizona State University, University of Tampa, and others for allegedly claiming that Pippen is bankrupt.

Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961

Comcast's Versus network attempted to bid for the eight-game package the NFL gave to their own network, but lost.

SportsChannel

The network obtained the National Hockey League rights from ESPN in 1988 by offering the NHL almost triple the amount of money that ESPN was offering (a move not unlike the 2005 NHL rights grab by Comcast/OLN over ESPN).

Steve DeOssie

DeOssie hosts The New England Tailgate Show, along with Fred Smerlas, which airs on Comcast Sports Net New England (CSNNE).

Telestream

Many media and entertainment companies such as CBS, BBC, CNN, Fox, CBC, Comcast, DirecTV, Time Warner, MTV, Discovery, and Lifetime, as well as a number of users in a broad range of business environments, rely on Telestream products to streamline operations, reach broader audiences and generate more revenue from their media.

Trip Ross

He is currently the executive producer of the television show Empty Noggin, which has aired on CW, Fox, and Comcast on Demand.

Tube Time

Tube Time was a former programming block on Comcast Digital Cable's On Demand service which featured free episodes of many classic television series owned by Sony Pictures Television.

Wally Dallenbach, Jr.

His primary responsibilities are for TNT's NASCAR coverage, a position he has held since 2001, and NBC Sports Network's IndyCar Series coverage, which he has been a part of since NBC was bought by Comcast in 2010.

WatchESPN

Distribution of simulcasts are only available to subscribers of the respective cable television networks to customers of AT&T U-Verse, Bright House Networks, Midcontinent Communications, Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications, Cox Communications, Verizon FiOS TV, and Xfinity TV (formerly Comcast Digital Cable).

WFMJ-TV

The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable/Youngstown channel 3, Armstrong Cable channel 2, Time Warner Cable/Warren channel 4 and Comcast Xfinity channel 7 in the Western Pennsylvania towns of New Castle and Bessemer.

WGEM-DT3

Known on-air as WGEM Fox, the station can also be seen on Mediacom channel 2 in Iowa, US Cable channel 12 in Missouri, and Comcast channel 18 in Illinois.

WYTV-DT2

In Bessemer, Pennsylvania, Comcast replaced Pittsburgh's WPCW with WYTV-DT2 in October despite the former becoming a CW affiliate.