- Comcast still world’s No. 1 pay-TV operator, but maybe not for long [LA Times] “Comcast Corp. remained the world’s largest pay-TV provider last year with nearly 22 million subscribers, but the Philadelphia-based giant soon could lose that bragging right to an Asian company. Explosive growth in the number of pay-TV customers in Asia comes as U.S.-based cable companies have struggled to hold on to video customers in an increasingly splintered market.”
- SMG leads Comcast unit in race to run Philly’s Pa. Convention Center [Philly.com] SMG won the proposal — “members of the bipartisan “study group” of board members who have been reviewing proposals for private managers to take over the running of the Pennsylvania Convention Center, have told other board members they are leaning toward supporting SMG, the West Conshocken-based manager of the convention centers in Chicago, Detroit and other big cities, over rival Comcast Spectacor’s Global Spectrum, which manages the Wells Fargo Center in South Philadelphia and other sports and resort city facilities.”
- With nearly 600 job openings, Comcast was Philly’s most actively hiring company in April [REPORT] [Technical.ly Philly]
- Comcast has a few cards to play in Hulu sale process [LA Times] “Comcast inherited its 32% stake in Hulu when it purchased control of NBCUniversal in 2011. There is an assumption that if Disney and News Corp. sell out of Hulu then Comcast will do the same. But while Comcast can’t increase its stake in Hulu or have any say in the operations, it also doesn’t have to sell just because the other owners choose to do so, according to people familiar with the decree.”
- Comcast’s X1 remote app gains voice commands on iOS, Android update in the works [Engadget]
- Comcast Launches LGBT VOD Package [Multichannel News] “In recognition of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, Comcast has introduced a collection of LGBT programming, including movies, biographical films, documentaries and TV shows, on a variety of VOD platforms.”
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