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04-22-2014, 11:54 PM
Comcast Stems Cord-Cutting Tide With 24,000 New Subscribers
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The Comcast financial juggernaut continued this winter. The largest U.S. cable operator added 24,000 new video customers (http://www.cmcsk.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=841516) to start 2014, which marked the second-consecutive quarter of growth after a 6 1/2-year stretch of cable-TV subscriber losses.
Comcast's quarterly sales and income both topped Wall Street forecasts. The company has credited much of the reversal in the video business to its X1 video platform (http://www.comcast.com/x1), an Internet-based system designed to make channel navigation far simpler and more intuitive (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-10/comcasts-redesigned-cable-box-may-be-helping-it-lose-fewer-tv-customers) than past cable boxes. On April 22, Comcast officials said that it distributes between 15,000 and 20,000 new x1 boxes to subscribers each day. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/22/comcast-sales-growth/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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The Comcast financial juggernaut continued this winter. The largest U.S. cable operator added 24,000 new video customers (http://www.cmcsk.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=841516) to start 2014, which marked the second-consecutive quarter of growth after a 6 1/2-year stretch of cable-TV subscriber losses.
Comcast's quarterly sales and income both topped Wall Street forecasts. The company has credited much of the reversal in the video business to its X1 video platform (http://www.comcast.com/x1), an Internet-based system designed to make channel navigation far simpler and more intuitive (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-10/comcasts-redesigned-cable-box-may-be-helping-it-lose-fewer-tv-customers) than past cable boxes. On April 22, Comcast officials said that it distributes between 15,000 and 20,000 new x1 boxes to subscribers each day. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/22/comcast-sales-growth/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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