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| '''Comcast Corporation''' is the largest cable television operator in the [[Directory:United States|United States]], as well as the largest broadband Internet service provider. | | '''Comcast Corporation''' is the largest cable television operator in the [[Directory:United States|United States]], as well as the largest broadband Internet service provider. |
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| + | Comcast was founded in [[1963]] by Ralph J. Roberts, Daniel Aaron and Julian A. Brodsky. The company was incorporated in [[Directory:Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] in [[1969]]. The company has traded on the [[NASDAQ]] since [[1972]], currently offered under the symbols CMCSA and CMCSK. |
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| + | The company is now the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment, and communications products and services, with 24.7 million cable customers, 14.1 million high-speed Internet customers, and 5.2 million voice customers. |
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| + | ==Comcast Business Class== |
| + | Comcast provides phone, Internet, and video services to business customers across its national footprint. |
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| + | ==Comcast Interactive Media (CIM)== |
| + | CIM develops and operates Comcast's Internet businesses focused on entertainment, information, and communication, including Comcast.net, Fancast, Ziddio, thePlatform, and GameInvasion.net. |
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| + | ==Content Networks and Investments== |
| + | ===Comcast Programming Group=== |
| + | E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, and ten different Comcast SportsNet networks. |
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| + | ===Comcast-Spectacor=== |
| + | Major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in [[Directory:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]]. |
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| + | ==Employees== |
| + | 100,000 total nationwide; 86,000 cable; 14,000 content and other. |
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