Comcast Roundup: FCC broadband proposal on the move, Oprah in town and more

MUST READ

• The Washington Post reports that today the FCC begins its new strategy for regulating broadband, not long after losing its case for Comcast in a D.C. Circuit Court suggesting the agency doesn’t have the authority to enforce its net neutrality regulations.
• Daily News gossip columnist Dan Gross reports that Oprah Winfrey was at the Comcast Center in undisclosed talks.
• Broadcasting and Cable reports that there is still push back from some in Congress on the proposed advancement of ethnic programming by a merged Comcast-NBC Universal, seeking more diverse TV choices.

WORTH BROWSING

• Philly Tech News reports on Cablevision’s $1.3 billion purchase of cable system Bresnan, of which Comcast owns a third.
• Light Reading reports that Comcast may be preparing to deploy a technology called switched digital video. H/T Philly Tech News

GIVE A GLANCE

• Multichannel News reports that Comcast is moving forward with previously reported plans to shut down the London, Ontario office of interactive TV development firm TVWorks and consolidating work at Radnor, Pa. and Mill Valley, Calif. offices.
• Multichannel News reports that senior vice president and general manager of video and entertainment services Derek Harrar has stepped down.

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