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Tea Party Activists Protest Outside Comcast Shareholders Meeting
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/15/2013
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NBC Cancels Penn Grad Whitney Cummings’s Show
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/10/2013
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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 has confirmed his worst fears, and has canceled the show. In this town at least, I think that qualifies as cannibalization.
I get what they're trying to do here, but oof, some scenes like this one were just hard to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-aLtqqjzHw
[HuffPo]
Comcast Getting Reimbursed for Shortened Hockey Season, And You Aren’t
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/09/2013
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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, it would have been nice to get back the cash you paid to (not) watch the team on TV. After all, the cable providers did.
Television distributors are being financially compensated for missed NHL games in this season shortened by labor problems, but hockey fans and other pay-TV subscribers won't see any of it. Neither the NHL nor TV distributors disclosed the financials in what the parties are describing as rebates, citing confidentiality agreements.
Comcast claims this
Goliath Squashes David: Comcast Ruling Kills Class-Action Lawsuits
By Jonathan Valania 5/09/2013
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Anti-MSNBC Organizers Hope for 60,000 Protesters at Comcast Shareholders Meeting
By Joel Mathis 5/08/2013
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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 programming at next week's meeting of Comcast shareholders on May 15.
This week, 60,000 invitations were emailed to tea partyers in and around Philadelphia and word went out to about 4 million more nationwide that their services are needed beginning at 8 a.m. EST at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Perelman Theater in Philadelphia, where Comcast’s meeting is set.
“The news programs at NBC and MSNBC, run by Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, reflect total agreement
The New York Times Thinks Brian Roberts Is Overpaid
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/06/2013
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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 $25 million in 2012. His point? Relative to the overall influence of their firms, media moguls are way overpaid.
Consider: the top 20 companies in the United States ranked by market capitalization include no media companies. But according to figures assembled for The New York Times...media companies employ seven of the top 20 highest paid chief executives.
Why the excessive compensation? In part because media companies like CBS and Discovery have "weak boards" and "super aggressives" CEOs
Comcast Is Growing Richer and More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine
By Joel Mathis 4/30/2013
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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 stinking up the place, there's no move the network's owner, Philadelphia-based Comcast, can make that doesn't ultimately seem successful. International Business Times previews Comcast's earnings report, due Wednesday:
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expect the Philadelphia-based company to report net income of $1.63 billion, or 62 cents a share, up from $1.2 billion, or 45 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue is expected to rise 3.6 percent to $15.4 billion. Comcast will report results before the
Why is Mayor Nutter Auctioning Off Chunks of the City in Secret Meetings?
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 4/18/2013
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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 of the country's five biggest cities, is bringing in big-name institutional investors for a two-day conference to try to entice them to purchase municipal bonds and city-owned assets. More specifically, all I can tell you is that Mayor Nutter is speaking right about now, and there's a cocktail party at 5:30 p.m. Tomorrow, investors will go check out PHL and Gas Works, among other things. Press aren't allowed, Comcast VP David Cohen said, because that
Public To Be Consulted, Disregarded On Comcast’s Pact With City
By Joel Mathis 4/16/2013
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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 in Philadelphia when the company's current agreement expires in 2015, and it wants the public's input on whether and how that agreement should continue. Some pertinent facts:
• Yes, Comcast was just named the third-worst company in America during a braketed vote-off at the Consumerist website. However, to make the pro-Comcast argument, consider this:
• Look at the Philly skyline.
• Really look at it.
• See that big building?
• No, that one.
• The TALLEST one.
• Guess who built
What Comcast Paid Brian Roberts and Steve Burke Last Year
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 4/11/2013
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The numbers are in: Here's what Philadelphia's most beloved corporate overlords made last year.
The LA Times notes that Comcast's compensation packages aren't quite as hefty as other media competitors', including Walt Disney and CBS. Not only that, but these guys don't even get paid sick leave! [LA Times]
- Brian Roberts, Comcast CEO: $29 million, up 8% from 2011
- Steve Burke, NBCUniversal/Kabletown CEO: $26.3 million, up 11.3%
- David L. "Consigliere" Cohen, Executive VP: $15.9 million, up 5%
