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Comcast settled two hotly contested fights with major content creators last week.
Comcast and the NFL Network settled their differences and inked a nine-year deal that will broadcast the football channel to more than two-thirds of Comcast subscribers, the New York Times reports.
The Media Memo at All Things Digital also reports that after Comcast’s squabble with Disney over Mickey’s joining Hulu last month, the two came together to announce that Disney-owned ESPN will offer its streaming video service to 17 million Comcast broadband subscribers.
Comcast’s growing lobbying budget, new advertising campaign and three other Comcast stories you need to read, after the jump.
Organized by importance for your ease:
- The Inquirer’s Bob Fernandez reports that, while still among the bottom of cable companies, Comcast saw its ranking in the American Customer Satisfaction Index leap forward, attributed to its social media outreach. Anyone think that can keep going?
- Fernandez also reports that the slowing economy doesn’t mean that Comcast has any plans of selling its majority stake in the Sixers and Flyers.
- For his second encore (gosh their staff is small now) Fernandez reports that our telecommunications giant spent $12.5 million on lobbying last year, including famed North Philadelphia Pastor William Gray III.
- The Inquirer’s Joe Distefano reports that an Obama administration more likely to push antitrust litigation could threaten cable giants like Comcast.
- Ad Week discusses Comcast’s new advertising campaign featuring Shaquille O’Neal as ‘the best’ and Ben Stein as ‘the smartest,’ qualities the company says represent its subscriber offerings. Check one of the spots out below.
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