Brian L. Roberts
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A new kind of company, a new challenge for feds...Web makes information instantly accessible. "We're still acting as if there are scarcities where there aren't any," he said. Brian Roberts, chief executive of Comcast, wants to diversify the company's core cable business model by seizing... In this article: Comcast, Federal Communications Commission, Brian Roberts, NBC Universal, CNBC, Federal Trade Commission, AT&T, and General Electric |
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Forbes.com News | 3 days ago
Worse Than The NBC-Comcast? No Deal
...reports. What's more, Comcast's continued attempts to diversify have forced the investing community to question Chief Executive Brian Roberts' confidence in the growth prospects for the increasingly threatened cable business. It...
In this article: Comcast, General Electric, Vivendi, NBC Universal, Jeffrey Immelt, Disney, NBC, Brian Roberts, and Standard & Poor's 500
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New York Post | November 20, 2009
Blazing Hondo intends
Redskins over Cowboys: Comcast cable reportedly is on the verge of buying a controlling interest in NBC. Memo to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts: If you're looking for a quick fix for the cable wasteland known as MSNBC, hit the delete button on...
In this article: 49ers, Ernie Anastos, Comcast, Browns, Cowboys, Raiders, Lions, and Steelers
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AP Online | November 16, 2009
Comcast's NBC talks cap its decades-long rise
...beyond its main business of selling cable TV subscriptions. But it would be a huge gamble for Roberts and his soft-spoken son, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts. Their family owns about 4 percent of Comcast shares and controls a third of the voting...
In this article: Comcast, Brian Roberts, Disney, NBC Universal, John Malone, Bill Gates, Archie Manning, GE Capital, and Ralph Roberts
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Philly.com | November 16, 2009
Vivendi’s Brazil deal could help Comcast bid
...to sell NBC Univerasl to Comcast, which would realize a long-held wish of Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts to own a major entertainment programmer. Roberts previously failed in an unsolicited bid for the Walt Disney Co. Comcast...
In this article: Comcast, Vivendi SA, NBC Universal, General Electric, Brian Roberts, Brazil, Legal age, Balance sheet, and Walt Disney Co.
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L.A. Times | November 15, 2009
Comcast aspires to be a major global communications player
...would put it on the same level as Disney, Viacom, Time Warner and Fox: a movie studio and broadcast network. For more than a decade, Brian Roberts, the scion running the country's largest cable television system, has envisioned transforming...
In this article: Comcast, NBC Universal, Brian Roberts, Walt Disney, Disney, Vivendi, Viacom, General Electric Co., and Time Warner
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Reuters | November 10, 2009
UPDATE 2-Zucker to head new NBCU-Comcast venture -- sources
...to buy media assets to create a content powerhouse spanning broadcast TV, cable and film. Chief Executive Brian Roberts said last month he would look at all opportunities in content. Many of GE's shareholders have urged the conglomerate to...
In this article: Comcast, GE, NBC Universal, Jeff Zucker, Vivendi, Joint venture, Brian Roberts, News Corp, and Universal
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Brian L. Roberts is Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation, an American company providing cable, entertainment, and communications products and services. He is the son of Comcast co-founder Ralph J. Roberts.
A graduate of Germantown Academy High School, Roberts received his B.S. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity.
Comcast has grown into a Fortune 100 company with 21.7 million customers and 80,000 employees. Comcast's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, Versus, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One and four regional Comcast SportsNets. The Company also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectator, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.
Roberts is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) and previously Treasurer. He also served as Chairman of NCTA from 1995 to 1996, when the landmark deregulatory 1996 Telecommunications Act became law.
Roberts is the Chairman of CableLabs as well.
Roberts is a board member of The Bank of New York. He co-chaired the 2003 Resource Development Campaign for the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania and was a founding co-chair of Philadelphia 2000, the nonpartisan host committee for the 2000 Republican National Convention.
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