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• Right Now In The People’s Republic Of Comcast: Is $16M Enough To Make You All Forget About This Bit Torrent Unpleasantness?

  —Philebrity

  We have to admit, even we couldn’t have predicted how badly Comcast’s handling of the whole bit-torrent throttling affair was going to go for them. Because let’s be honest: The overwhelming majority of people who use bit torrenting P2P technology are doing so in an effort to download copyrighted material, [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 1:37pm EST
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• Someone Famous Went Somewhere Once: SHAQ At The Comcast 3-D Giant Screensaver, Circa Now

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  Shhh. Do not disturb him. He is already confused by how all of those children could possibly be larger than he is. [Photo via VisitPhilly] Do you know of Someone Famous Who Went Somewhere Once in Philadelphia? We don’t care, but we’ll humor you. Send your tips and pics to [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 2:40pm EST
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• SEPTA Weekend Family Pass

  —Above Average Jane

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  There are a lot of things going on downtown over the holidays, the Wannamaker light show, Dickens village, the Comcast lobby, Reading terminal marker, etc. Something you may not know -- you can use your monthly SEPTA train pass to buy a weekend family pass. It is good for up [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 11:25pm EST
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• Right Now In The People’s Republic Of Comcast: You Can Get TV On A Computer Now!

  —Philebrity

  Earlier today, Comcast rolled out this funny thing called xfinity TV which is basically an online portal for its OnDemand content. It works like this: You go to one of Comcast’s 5,000 web portals, sign in with your existing account (you know, the info you have to dig up every [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 3:48pm EST
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• Congratulations, Comcast Drone Who Writes Those Weird/Pithy Program Descriptions, Somebody Finally Took Notice

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  WTF Comcast is a Tumblr blog that takes screen shots of the particularly weird/messed-up program descriptions you see on Comcast cable that are obviously punched in by someone whose job it is to write like 3,000 of these per day. It was bound to happen. [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 11:55am EST
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• Township Pays More For Contract Help

  —The Sanatoga Post

  SANATOGA PA – Figuring that good legal representation is worth paying a bit more for, Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township’s Board of Commissioners agreed this week to spend an additional $1,014 for help in negotiating a new franchise agreement with cable television giant Comcast Corp. The broadcasting-and-entertainment company’s 10-year deal with the [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 6:33am EST
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• Rumblings: The Tina Fey/Roots/PhillyMag/People’s Republic Of Comcast QuadrupleBurger®!

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  >>> Hey, you all see the new “Yo, I’m From Philly” issue of PhillyMag yet? Yep, Tina Fey’s on the cover, but, hey, THERE’S NO INTERVIEW WITH TINA FEY. And we’re pretty sure no one from PhillyMag even took any of the pictures of Fey in the issue. They did, [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 1:31pm EST
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• Daily Candy Philadelphia To Cease; Philebrity Madly Scrambling For The Email Addresses Of Girls We’d Never Hang Out With For The All New “Philebrity Ugg Boot Snackmail”

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  The Comcast giveth, and the Comcast taketh away. Just a day after the cable giant’s NBCU deal was finalized comes the news that Daily Candy, another Comcast acquisition, is axing all but five of its markets, including Philadelphia. That puts Philly Daily Candy editor Meredith Lindemon out of a job, [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:36pm EST
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• Comcast’s ‘NBC’ deal major boost for Philly…

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  Comcast’s ‘NBC’ deal major boost for Philly…

  
  

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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:04am EST
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• Comcast Buys NBC

  —The Pennsylvania Progressive

  The consolidation of major media continues unabated as Comcast has bought a controlling interest in NBC/Universal.  This makes the Roberts owned media conglomerate based in Philadelphia the largest such company in the country.  The Roberts family has deep conservative ties and this could bode dark clouds for MSNBC's Keith Olbermann [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:09pm EST
  

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• Right Now In The People’s Republic Of Comcast: Das Mayor Praises Our True Leaders

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  Aw man, Mayor Nutter just issued a press release about the Comcast/NBCU merger: “This is great news for Philadelphia and Comcast, one of our leading hometown corporate citizens,” said Mayor Michael A. Nutter. “On behalf of all Philadelphians let me congratulate the Comcast family on this very exciting development for [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:25pm EST
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• Bigfoot

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  What do you suppose the odds are of this actually being turned down? I mean, I’d like to think so – but I don’t believe it’ll happen:

  WASHINGTON – Comcast Corp. will likely have to accept substantial conditions if the cable TV provider wants to win regulatory approval for control [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 10:49am EST
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• BREAKING: Tiger picks up new endorsement

  —My Tabloids | Satire on the Mon

  Embattled golfer Tiger Woods, fearing that his marital infidelity might effect his earning power with major corporations such as Buick and Nike, has acted preemptively to take advantage of his current situation by signing on as the new spokesman for Comcast Voice Mail. “We’re excited to have Tiger on board,” Said [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:52am EST
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• Comcast buys majority stake in NBC Universal

  —Pawatercooler.com

  WSJ: Comcast Corp. agreed to take majority ownership of NBC Universal from General Electric Corp. in a complex deal valued at more than $30 billion, ending the conglomerate’s more than two-decade rule over the peacock network and satisfying the cable giant’s push to own more content. Meanwhile, the cable-television giant announced a [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 7:33am EST
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• Comcast buys majority stake in NBC Universal

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  WSJ:
  Comcast Corp. agreed to take majority ownership of NBC Universal from General Electric Corp. in a complex deal valued at more than $30 billion, ending the conglomerate's more than two-decade rule over the peacock network and satisfying the cable giant's push to own more content.
  
  Meanwhile, the [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 7:32am EST
  by Lisa Mossie

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• Right Now In The People’s Republic Of Comcast: Things We Want To Ask The Machine, If Only It Had An Intellect Or A Soul

  —Philebrity

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  · So, we keep hearing that the NBC Universal deal is done. And we believe it. In fact, we kind of never doubted that it might all happen. But this is a deal that spawns questions like wet gremlin after midnight. So, first things first: Is this shit even legal? [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:28pm EST
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• Behind the Headlines Program Schedule

  —Lincoln Blog

  BEHIND THE HEADLINES is a television production of The Susquehanna Valley Center for Public Policy [http://www.susvalleypolicy.org/] www.susvalleypolicy.org NOW AIRING ON ALL COMCAST SYSTEMS ... [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:00am EST
  

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• Christmas at Comcast

  —Suburban Guerrilla

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  Our commenting friend Izquierdo was in town from the Left Coast to see his daughter (today is his birthday – happy birthday, Iz!) and talked me into going to see some kind of holiday show in the lobby of the new Comcast world headquarters. (I never even heard of it [...]

  Posted: November 29, 2009, 3:28pm EST
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• Is The Comcast Holiday Spectacular in 3-D Trying To Pick A Fight With The Wanamaker’s Light Show?

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  Probably not — and we’ll be comparing and contrasting the two in a post next week — but damn, it sure does feel like there’s some Deck The Halls-style arms-race bitchslapping going on here. Yesterday, Comcast invited community leaders and members of the hospitality biz to preview The Comcast Holiday [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:32pm EST
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• Comcastic!

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  From the Media Mobilizing Project, this infuriating news.

  On Tuesday, we officially learned that Comcast has challenged the City of Philadelphia’s application to the federal government for stimulus funds to build broadband infrastructure for disenfranchised communities. This decision by Comcast exhibits the worst of corporate malfeasance and it must be [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:51pm EST
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• It's Comcastic: Comcast Files Suit in Effort to Perpetuate Digital Divide

  —Young Philly Politics

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  On Tuesday, we officially learned that Comcast has challenged the City of Philadelphia's application to the federal government for stimulus funds to build broadband infrastructure for disenfranchised communities. This decision by Comcast exhibits the worst of corporate malfeasance and it must be challenged.

  In comments last week to a [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:30pm EST
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• Comcast Hackers Could Face The Same Kind Of “Billing” With Which Comcast Customers Are Already Sadly Acquainted

  —Philebrity

  Hey, remember when a bunch of 18-year-olds all gave themselves “scary” Transformer names and then hacked the shit out of Comcast.net? (That’s one of them, pictured at right.) My God that was awesome in almost too many ways to count. Of course, they did get caught, and now, they’re being [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:07pm EST
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