Comcast Media Center Hires David Higgins as Vice President, Engineering and Transmission Operations

Also Announces Promotions of Leslie Colacello-Russell to VP Sales & Marketing, Jon Rees to Director Network Origination, and Susie Tomenchok to Director Strategic Customer Solutions

Denver, Colo., May 20, 2003 — Comcast Media Center (CMC) announced today that David Higgins has joined the company as its Vice President of Engineering and Transmission Operations. The company also announced the promotions of Leslie Colacello-Russell to Vice President, Sales and Marketing, John Rees to Director of Network Origination and Susie Tomenchok to Director of Strategic Customer Solutions. The changes reflect the CMC’s expansion into the emerging product and service areas for its clients, including video on demand, high-definition TV and high-speed Internet.

David Higgins joins the Comcast Media Center senior management team as Vice President Engineering and Transmission Operations. Higgins brings to Comcast over 18 years of management and construction experience in the broadcast television, satellite uplinking and DBS industries. Most recently, he led Project Development for The Systems Group, where his clients included Oxygen Network, QVC, Bloomberg, IBM, Morgan Stanley, Court TV, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Puerto Rico and WGBH-TV in Boston, among others.

“David, who has been personally involved in many of the cable network launches over the past several years, is one of the very few people in the broadcast community with experience in all of the technical areas that we touch at the CMC,” stated Gary Traver, Senior Vice President and COO of the CMC in announcing Higgins’s appointment.

With a background that encompasses studio and post-production facilities construction, master control room design and integration, and RF and earth station installation, Higgins has designed and built facilities for USA Network, Lifetime Network, Music Choice, CNBC and MSG Network among others. He has also worked for IDB Communications, as the Director of Engineering at its New York Teleport and also has prior experience with the CMC, during its launch of the first digital satellite platform.

Leslie Colacello- Russell has been promoted to Vice President of Sales and Marketing of the CMC. Ms. Russell has served as Senior Director of Sales, Marketing and Product Development for the company since 2000. During this time, she crafted the CMC’s service and product offerings for clients of its content creation, management and distribution services, including directing their brand development, creating a sales force and launching targeted marketing campaigns. She assumed product development and sales and marketing responsibility for the HITS digital platform when it was combined with the CMC’s video services unit last spring.

“Leslie was instrumental in developing a concise, client-focused response to our traditional product lines which she is now providing to our plan for serving as the industry leader in HD and VOD services,” Traver said. “This promotion serves as both a recognition of her tremendous contribution to the organization and the future role that she will play in achieving our vision for the CMC’s leadership role in digital broadband.”

Ms. Russell has held sales and marketing positions in the industry for the past 15 years. She earned a B.S. in telecommunications management and a concentration in marketing from Syracuse University and has been active in industry affairs, including serving as a chapter board member of Women in Cable and Telecommunications and the Delaware Valley Co-op Committee and as an active member of CTAM.

Jon T. Rees has been promoted to Director Network Origination for the CMC, a new position that incorporates his former duties as Senior Manager of Broadcast Engineering and Design. In his new role, Rees has overall responsibility for the CMC's broadcast origination facility, which currently handles playback operations for over 60 networks, including two full-time high-definition networks. Rees’ former roles at the CMC have included serving as Senior Manager of Network Origination, Project Manager for networks originated by the Center for Discovery Communications and as Manager of the facility’s Network Response Center.

Susie Tomenchok has been promoted to Director of Strategic Customer Solutions for Comcast Media Center. In her new role, Ms Tomenchok will work with content developers and programming networks on enhancing their affiliate offerings via the CMC’s newest services, which include HD programming production and distribution. Her most recent post was at the CMC as a product development consultant. Tomenchok also was a member of the Center’s original management team, having joined the company in 1994.

About Comcast Media Center
Comcast Media Center (CMC), a unit of Comcast Cable, provides network origination services, global transmission via satellite and terrestrial fiber optics, broadcast quality studio, mobile and post production services, interactive television applications and streaming distribution capabilities. CMC’s HITS (Headend in the Sky) digital platform, founded in 1994, delivers 150 digital services to more than 2,000 cable system headends. More information is available at: http://www.comcastmediacenter.com/

Headquartered in Philadelphia, Comcast Cable is a division of Comcast Corporation, a developer, manager and operator of broadband cable networks and provider of programming content. Operating in 17 of the United States' 20 largest metropolitan areas, Comcast is one of the leading communications, media and entertainment companies in the world. Providing basic cable, digital cable and high-speed Internet services, Comcast Cable is the company to look to first for the communications products and services that connect people to what's important in their lives. The company's 55,000 employees, in six divisions, serve more than 21 million customers.