Brian Roberts

Samsung Teams Up With Comcast, Time Warner, Hulu to Bring TV to Multiple Screens

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 6, 2011 at 6:13 pm PT

During Samsung’s keynote at CES tonight, it invited a full cast of characters to demonstrate how it was moving TV from the living room to both tablets and phones.

NBC U's Okay Quarter Just Fine for GE

Peter Kafka in Media on July 16, 2010 at 6:12 am PT

GE doesn’t really care much about NBC Universal, which is why it’s happy to hand it off to Comcast once regulators sign off. But for the record, the cable/broadcast/movie conglomerate posted an okay quarter: Revenues were up five percent and operating profit was up 13 percent, the company said this morning.

Comcast Shows Off an iPad Remote, Promises to Show Off iPad Shows, Too

Peter Kafka in Media on May 12, 2010 at 3:38 pm PT

Comcast wants you to know it loves Web video. Time Warner, too. Just keep paying your cable bill, okay?

Comcast Won’t Talk About NBCU, Will Talk About Internet Video

Peter Kafka in Media on November 4, 2009 at 6:49 am PT

Comcast couldn’t mollify Wall Street about its pending deal to buy NBC Universal this morning, because it refused to talk about the deal at all. The company did spend time, though, explaining the peril and possibilities that Web video poses for the cable giant.

Don’t Tell a Soul! Media, Tech Moguls Take Manhattan for Semisecret Quadrangle Conference.

Peter Kafka in Media on November 3, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Wouldn’t you like to bump elbows with media moguls and hear from the likes of Eric Schmidt, Biz Stone and James Murdoch? Me too! Alas, Quadrangle’s Foursquare conference is closed to the public and the press. But at least I can tell you whom you won’t be hearing from.

Scripps, Rainbow Join the Authentication Bandwagon

Peter Kafka in Media on June 24, 2009 at 3:17 pm PT

Comcast was mum about other cable networks it has persuaded to join its “OnDemand Online” program, which will offer TV shows over the Web to its customers. But word is getting out anyway. The people who bring you Food Network and AMC, for instance, have signed on.

Web TV You’ll Need to Pay to See: Time Warner, Comcast Roll Out “Authentication.” Who Else Is In?

Peter Kafka in Media on June 24, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts will announce this morning that their two companies are linking up for a trial of an “authentication” effort. That means a handful of cable subscribers will get online access to Time Warner TV shows that have been previously kept off the Web. The idea is to protect cable subscription revenues by giving pay TV subscribers–but only subscribers–Web access to all the shows they get on TV. It’s a simple idea, but making it a reality will be very, very complicated.

Comcast Not Really Feeling All That “Comcastic” Right Now

John Paczkowski in News on May 29, 2009 at 12:13 pm PT

The econalypse and the job losses and lower housing starts it’s brought with it are having a nasty effect on Comcast’s bottom line. And according to CEO Brian Roberts, that’s not going to change any time soon. “It’s still a scary time,” he said in remarks at Sanford Bernstein’s 25th annual Strategic Decisions Conference in New York.

Coming Soon: Relatively Fast Broadband With "Unnecessary Superlative Boost"™

John Paczkowski in News on October 22, 2008 at 4:31 pm PT

With U.S. broadband speeds lagging far behind European and Asian countries, Comcast is finally doing its part to bring the country’s lousy broadband Internet services into parity with those of other industrialized nations. You know, like Iceland. Or South Korea.