Comcast to pay $800k to FCC for hiding stand-alone broadband option [Roundup]

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• NBC’s Olympics expectations: Fewer viewers, better TV ad sales [Inquirer]
• Comcast Settles NBCU Deal Complaint with Stand-Alone Broadband Offering [Multichannel News] “According to the FCC, Comcast has agreed to pay $800,000 and extend its NBCU deal agreement to offer reasonably priced stand-alone broadband to consumers who do not also take cable service from the company.The agreement, in the form of a consent decree adopted by the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, resolves an FCC investigation into complaints that Comcast was not “adequately marketing” the stand-alone service it agreed to offer as part of the NBCU deal.”
• Supreme Court takes on damaged-class issue in suit against Comcast [Inquirer] — “The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether two million Comcast Corp. cable-TV customers in the Philadelphia area should be considered a damaged class in a lawsuit that seeks $875 million from the cable giant and has been wending its tortuous way through the federal courts for almost a decade.” More from Bloomberg here

• Comcast ‘Invents’ Its Own Private Internet [Businessweek] — More on anti-trust probe
• An Old Plan for New Media [Huffington Post]
• Rebranded NBC Sports Network Holds Key to Comcast’s Olympics [Bloomberg]
• Comcast Tapping Debt Market for First Time in Almost Two Years [Businessweek]
• New Issue-Comcast Corp sells $2.25 bln 2-pt notes [Reuters]
• Comcast’s Skype-on-TV service hits Philadelphia area [Philadelphia Business Journal]
• Former Comcast and Brightcove exec building multiscreen apps for Cainkade [Fierce Cable] “Comcast and Brightcove veteran Eric Elia was named president of software design and development firm Cainkade, where he is expected to help the company build multiscreen applications for Comcast, Samsung and other clients.”