Comcast Media Center Expands Its VOD Distribution Footprint With Addition of Four New Affiliates

Lebanon, Midcontinent, Sunflower and Wave Broadband Join Growing List of MSOs Using CMC’s Total Content Solution For VOD

Denver, Colo, September 25, 2006 –Lebanon Telecommunications, Midcontinent Communications, Sunflower Broadband and Wave Broadband have signed up to use the Comcast Media Center’s (CMC) national video on demand (VOD) content management and distribution service, the company announced today. These new affiliates join eight additional MSOs in selecting the CMC to manage customized packages of VOD programming from a wide variety of TV networks and other sources.

“The CMC’s VOD platform allows operators to enhance their VOD libraries with content that is personally relevant to each of their customers,” stated Gary Traver, Chief Operating Officer for the CMC. “We are looking forward to working with each of our new affiliates on expanding their VOD services through our platform, which features a number of cutting–edge enhancements that have increased its capacity and remote management capabilities.”

Comcast Media Center’s VOD solution is the industry’s only platform offering VOD content creation, management and distribution from one national facility. Its content management services include a secure Internet portal that allows affiliates to track content delivery to all of their headends. The customized content management tool allows affiliates to monitor the status of VOD content, including when programming has propagated from the CMC catcher successfully to the affiliate’s VOD system.

The Denver-based business unit of Comcast Cable offers a comprehensive set of production and editing services from the same facility, providing a turnkey solution for creating, managing and distributing VOD content “all under one roof.” Original VOD programming produced at the CMC includes college and professional sports highlights shows; time-sensitive public affairs programming; how-to programming and short-form informational programs.

The CMC, which currently encodes and delivers an average of 3,600 episodes (content assets) and 1,200 hours of VOD content per month, offers content providers and operators a range of options for creating, managing and distributing their VOD assets, from standard scheduling to quick-turnaround delivery. The CMC creates and validates meta-data in-house, including scrubbing and translation services, allowing it to meet multiple headend, server and IPG requirements.

ABOUT COMCAST MEDIA CENTER
Denver-based Comcast Media Center (CMC), a business unit of Comcast Cable, continues a 12- year-tradition of developing and launching digital content services for the industry. CMC currently serves more than 400 MSOs operating over 3,000 regional and standalone cable headends, originates 79 TV channels and provides video transmission for 445 full-time services. The CMC’s Total Content Solution includes a Total Digital Solution (TDS) that combines digital feeds of basic and expanded basic programming services with its Headend In The Sky (HITS) lineup of over 150 digital video and audio channels; a national Video On Demand (VOD) platform; an Advertising Distribution Network (ADN) for centrally managing cross channel promotions and advertising; and a rich media streaming service for delivering IP video to PC’s and portable media devices. The CMC’s content management capabilities include channel and live event origination services in HD and standard definition; studio and post-production; encoding; and content hosting and storage services. More information is available at http://www.comcastmediacenter.com

About Comcast Corporation
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (http://www.comcast.com) is the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services. With 23.3 million cable customers, 10 million high-speed Internet customers, and 1.6 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.

Comcast's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, OLN, G4, AZN Television, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One and four regional Comcast SportsNets. Comcast also has a majority ownership in Comcast Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.