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The Phillies are returning to the World Series, and, amid all the wild celebration, Thursday morning’s Comcast Roundup still must be done. Get an e-mail subscription for our Comcast news updates. Comcast CEO Brian Roberts made a big splash with his presence at San Francisco’s Web 2.0 Summit this week. CNET reports that his opening […]


The Phillies are returning to the World Series, and, amid all the wild celebration, Thursday morning’s Comcast Roundup still must be done. Get an e-mail subscription for our Comcast news updates.
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts made a big splash with his presence at San Francisco’s Web 2.0 Summit this week.

After the jump, continued coverage of a possible purchase of NBC, On Demand Online by year’s end more than a dozen other Comcast stories of note.
The latest news on the NBC bid:

MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME

The Inquirer’s Bob Fernandez reports that Comcast’s On Demand Online will be live by the end of the year, putting content from 24 cable networks on the Web and only made accessible for Comcast customers. The Associated Press reports that the 5,000 trial users will at first only be able to access the networks from their home computers after their cable subscriptions are verified.
The N.Y. Times reviews a book on media moguls, which includes coverage of Comcast chief Roberts.
The Washington Post’s tech blogger reports that Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and other Web powerhouses have come on board for the FCC’s vision of net neutrality, which, as mentioned above, isn’t entirely seen the same way by Comcast.

GIVE A GLANCE

The Boston Globe reports that 64 advertising jobs were cut at a regional facility there.
The Harrisburg Patriot News reports that Comcast rates for that region’s subscribers could go up come Nov. 1.
When there is just too much Comcast news to follow, the Comcast Roundup will be there every Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. EST

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