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...those 50 million homes, realizing that if you can't beat the cable powers, you might as well join them. Unlike the NFL, baseball offered the pay-TV operators minority ownership of the network. Satellite provider DirecTV owns 16.5% of the MLB Network, while the three largest cable companies - Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications - together own another 16.5%. Major League Baseball owns the remaining two-thirds. "We watched the path that the NFL Network took, and we decided to take a different one," says Brosnan. "We decided early on that we'd be open to the possibility...
...sense-driven networks—cellular phone towers, for example—to track down dissidents and protesters. American health insurance providers, already notorious for their predatory practices, could use similar tactics to preemptively deny coverage to those who they suspect are at risk for a certain disease. And Comcast, one of the largest telecommunications providers in the country, has already come under fire for limiting the bandwidth of consumers who supposedly paid for an “unlimited” subscription to its high-speed Internet service. Policymakers should also take extra steps to make the importance of privacy...
...Club of Philadelphia will host the annual conference at the newly built Comcast Center and will feature a keynote address by HBS alum and Comcast Chief Operating Officer Stephen Burke...
Following the conference, the HBS Club of Philadelphia will be hosting a dinner at the Comcast Center, where Childress will be speaking about current and future plans for teaching social enterprise at the Business School...
Other initiatives in what the younger Roberts terms "Comcast 3.0" include rolling out more services to small businesses and hiring more customer-service representatives. But don't expect major deals in the near term. Roberts, who earned $20.8 million in 2007, allows that Comcast has a long way to go but says he's the guy to get it there: "I can't think of a business, industry or company I want to lead as much as this...