Comcast, others try to make young consumers TV subscribers with ‘data-first packages’ [ROUNDUP]

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• The children are our future, and they don’t pay for TV [Gigaom] — Comcast “execs said the company has benefited from a number of marketing programs aimed at college students and recent grads that push data-first packages.”
• NBC Struggles for Its Footing [New York Times] — The TODAY Show has seen its ratings falter, along with others at the Comcast owned property
• Comcast Posts 4.7% Profit, With Mixed Results From NBCUniversal Acquisition [Media Decoder: New York Times]
• NHL Network Selects Comcast Media Center For Network Origination and Transmission Services [Market Watch]
• No HBO Go for Roku users on Comcast or DirecTV [Gigaom] — H/T Philly Tech News
• Comcast switching from analog to digital [News & Advance]
• Drug-Sniffing Dogs at the Comcast Center? [Patch]
• Lazarus: NBC Sports Network Changes Will Be ‘Done Well, Not Fast’ [Multichannel News]
• Suspect in Fairhaven Comcast holdup sought [SouthCoast] — In Connecticut
• Comcast, Ambercrombie And Fitch: 2 Stocks On Sale For No Good Reason [Seeking Alpha]
• Comcast Promotes Peter Kiriacoulacos to Executive Vice President of Comcast Cable and Appoints Him Senior Vice President of NBCUniversal [Business Wire]
• McGinn Named VP of NBC ‘Multi-Station Local Programming’ [Broadcasting & Cable] — Meredith McGinn