Comcast Headquarters: Philadelphia,
PA Website:www.comcast.com Other Properties In:Venues
• Operates in three
of Philadelphia's four franchise areas • Nation's largest
cable provider with more than 21 million cable subscribers nationwide
• One TV station: CN8 • Four cable networks
• Two joint ventures to create new cable networks, PBS Kids
Sprout and TVOne with Radio One • Sports interests include:
Philadelphia 76ers, Flyers, and Phantoms
Time Warner Cable
• Operates in one of Philadelphia's four franchise areas
• 10.8 million subscribers nationwide
QUICK
FACT The top two cable providers, Comcast
and Time Warner, have more subscribers,
32.2 million, than the other cable companies ranked 3rd-25th
combined. That number may increase with the purchase of
Adelphia Cable.
Cable rates
have increased 59% (almost three times the rate of inflation)
since the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996;
a law that claimed to increase competition in the cable
industry.
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