Senators say ISP data caps blocking access to online schooling
Nearly a dozen senators sent a letter to seven Internet providers urging them to lift broadband data caps that may inhibit online learning.
Comcast
Comcast ($CMCSA) is a multi-national mass communications corporation based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company owns or operates Xfinity, NBC Universal, Telemundo and Sky Group.
Comcast shopping X1 platform to smart TV manufacturers, report says
Tech publication Protocol says Comcast executives have pitched TV makers about integrating the X1 platform directly into sets.
WWE Network programming comes to Comcast’s Peacock
Peacock is adding dozens of documentaries and compilation shows from sports entertainment juggernaut World Wrestling Entertainment.
Comcast puts NBC Sky World News channel on indefinite hiatus
Comcast has halted plans to launch a new global news channel co-branded with its NBC News and Sky satellite properties, according to a source.
Local NBC stations begin issuing pink slips
Workers at NBC-owned local stations are receiving pink slips as part of a broader corporate restructuring at NBC properties.
Comcast teases relaunch of tech-centric G4 channel
Comcast will revive the G4 brand for some kind of media product more than five years after it closed the tech-centric cable TV network.
Comcast customers to get Marquee Sports under new deal with Sinclair
An extension of the company’s re-transmission agreement also includes more than 70 local stations in 50 markets and several Fox Sports-branded regional networks.
Analyst: 33 percent of cable, satellite TV subscribers on promo deal
Those deals could be bad news for cable and satellite companies as more subscribers cut the cord due to the pandemic-induced recession.
Analyst says Comcast’s Peacock downloaded 1.5 million times
Not a bad first week for an app that’s still not available on Roku or Amazon Fire TV devices.
Report: Layoffs expected to impact numerous staffers at NBC
“Sweeping” and “significant” layoffs are expected across NBC’s networks, sources told the New York Post.
