By Tom Steinert-Threlkeld Comcast's Roberts asks for ideas and builds a strong team In Las Vegas this week, Brian Roberts could have been playing host to The Cable Show and the Vanguard Awards. But he isn't. ...
By Mike Farrell Comcast CEO to Analysts: Telcos Aren't Making Gains The cable industry is winning the battle against phone companies encroaching on the video market, said Comcast CEO Brian Roberts. Exhibit A: More than half...
By Ted Hearn Comcast CEO Wants Industry Dialogue on Channel Costs Washington-- Brian Roberts wants to talk sports -- and not necessarily the merits of Philadelphia 76ers star Allen Iverson's crossover dribble. ...
If broadband is good, wideband must be better; right? Well, maybe. Yesterday an AP story carried on Forbes.com reported that Comcast CEO Brian Roberts demoed a cable modem providing downloads at the blazing speed on 150 megabits per second. Comcast's standard offer around...
If broadband is good, wideband must be better; right? Well, maybe. Yesterday an AP story carried on Forbes.com reported that Comcast CEO Brian Roberts demoed a cable modem providing downloads at the blazing speed on 150 megabits per second. Comcast’s standard offer around here offers only 6 megabits today...
By Todd Spangler & Mike Farrell Comcast's Roberts: Next-Gen Modems Will Trump Telcos Las Vegas- Comcast CEO Brian Roberts gave a hands-on demonstration of the next generation of ultra-fast, 'wideband' cable modems at The Cable Show...
By Ted Hearn Asks State Rulemakers for Help With Bolstering Cable VoIP Competition Washington-- Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts last week in Miami appealed to state regulators for help in removing regulatory hurdles that...
Comcast chairman-CEO Brian Roberts wants to experiment with scheduling movies on PPV simultaneously with their debut in the multiplexes. Speaking off the cuff at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference in New York last week, Roberts cited the rem Comcast chairman-CEO Brian Roberts wants to...
New York -- If Comcast Corp. stays nimble, it should be poised to ride the wave of new technological innovations influencing entertainment over the next quarter century, the cable company's CEO said last week at a dinner honoring him. Brian R...
Brian Roberts, 47, is CEO of Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator. At the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's National Show this past April, he learned from his wife, Aileen, 51, that she might have breast cancer. Last Brian Roberts, 47, is CEO of...
Is Brian Roberts below really off his acquisition binge? The Comcast CE0 insists he is. Meeting with a small group of investors assembled by Bank of America media analyst Doug Shapiro last Thursday, Roberts contended that he doesn't see the need Is Brian...
By Mike Farrell This Thursday, Comcast Corp. chairman and CEO Brian Roberts gets to put his money where his mouth is. Roberts - who, along with other cable luminaries, touted basic and voice-services subscriber growth at...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Despite telephone companies' threats to the video and data business, Comcast Corp. chairman and CEO Brian Roberts told a packed National Show general-session audience here last Monday that continued innovation from cable operators SAN FRANCISCO -- Despite telephone companies' threats...
By Staff In December 2005, about a month before Comcast Corp.'s stock price hit a 52-week low of $25.35, chairman and CEO Brian Roberts talked in public about the challenges of pleasing stock analysts, motivating employees and doing the right ...
PHILADELPHIA -- Comcast Corp, chairman and CEO Brian Roberts said that more joint ventures such as recent deals with TiVo Inc., Motorola Inc. and Pace Micro Technology plc could be on the horizon for the MSO. Roberts, who spoke at Comcast's an...
Excite@Home's stock price soared from $18 to $28, then fell back last Tuesday following a remark by Comcast Chairman Brian Roberts about his recent deal to eventually sell his stake to AT&T. Roberts defended AT&T's agreement in March t ...
BALTIMORE - Comcast Corp. president Brian Roberts suggested last week that the cable operator might go it alone and handle its own digitally compressed programming, rather than using Headend in the Sky, the service that Tele-Communications Inc. is of BALTIMORE - Comcast Corp. president Brian Roberts...
"Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told investors ... 'we continue to believe that proponents of the so-called net neutrality are pursuing a solution in search of a problem' But I don't believe this for a second. Comcast ... "Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told investors ......
ANAHEIM, CALIF. -- In his public debut as CEO of the new, vastly enlarged Comcast Corp., Brian Roberts urged everyone -- especially his employees -- to tour the show floor and see the many vendors that spent time and capital trying to improve the c ...