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Tube Time was a programming block on Comcast Digital Cable's On Demand service which featured free episodes of many classic television series owned by Sony Pictures Television. [ 1 ] On December 31, 2009, Tube Time was discontinued by Comcast, in preparation for the rebranding to Xfinity.
Time Warner Cable 419 FiOS 869 Charter 360: Tribune Broadcasting: Antenna TV 7: Boston: WLVI 56 (The CW) DT2: Comcast 296 FiOS 862: Sunbeam Television (bought from Tribune after launch of The Tube) The Country Network: 8: Washington, D.C. WDCW 50 (The CW) DT2: FiOS 863 Comcast 207 Cox 804: Tribune Broadcasting: Was This TV, now Antenna TV This ...
Brian L. Roberts. Comcast is described as a family business. [19] Brian L. Roberts, its chairman and CEO, is the son of founder Ralph J. Roberts (1920–2015). Roberts owns or controls about 1% of all Comcast shares but all of the Class B supervoting shares, giving him an "undilutable 33% voting power over the company". [20]
USA Network (or simply USA) is an American basic cable television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of Comcast's NBCUniversal.It was originally launched in 1977 as Madison Square Garden Sports Network, one of the first national sports cable television channels.
Xfinity Flex (formerly Xfinity Instant TV) is an American over-the-top internet television service owned by Comcast.The service – which is structured as a virtual multichannel video programming distributor – is only available to Comcast Xfinity internet customers.
Speed Channel: joint venture with Cox Communications and Fox Entertainment Group; Fox acquired Comcast and Cox's stakes in 2001; Time Warner Entertainment (26%, with Time Warner Inc.): Comcast sold its 26% stake to Time Warner Inc. (now Warner Bros. Discovery) in 2003. TV One: 50% joint venture with Radio One, which acquired Comcast's stake in 2015
The Comcast Network (TCN) was an American cable television network which was carried mostly on Comcast and Xfinity cable systems in four states and 20 television markets in the Eastern U.S. from New Jersey to Virginia. The main focus of the network was on the Philadelphia area, although the channel attempted to structure its programs as ...
In 1999, Comcast first made a bid for MediaOne. Comcast said they would pay $60 billion and assume all of MediaOne's debt. On May 6, 1999, AT&T, not wanting to be outdone promised about $62 billion instead, and paid a break up fee of $1.5 billion allowing MediaOne to be purchased by AT&T. [4] [5] MediaOne RoadRunner et al. next became AT&T branded.