MCN - December 21, 2009

Brian Roberts has been preparing for Comcast’s recently announced deal for control of NBC Universal for almost his whole life. Roberts began attending Comcast company meetings with his dad Ralph when he was about 10 years old. When Comcast was preparing to go public in 1972, the 13-year-old Brian found a typo in the document that could have negatively affected the initial public offering.

• Content
• 'Caprica’ Streams Ahead
• Spike Pits TNA Vs. WWE

• Finance
• Charter Claws Back
• MSG Eyeing Rate Hike?

• Newsline
• DirecTV: Leave Our Set-Top Out of It
• Comcast Counts to 'Xfinity'
• FCC Sets Its Sights On Fiber Exemption
• Is 'TV Everywhere’ Anticompetitive?
• Talkback
• Broadband Funding Starts — Slowly
• Fox Gets Tough With TWC
• Unbeaten Teams Lift NFL Net Prospects
• Coda
• Coda

• People
• People

• Platforms
• Quick Hits
• Rovi Works Web Angle
• Translation Please
• 2009 Cable Tech Wish List

• Rules
• Wake-Up Call for Broadband Plan
• FCC’s Net Neutrality Workshop Stacked With Pro-Regulation Speakers

• Special Report
• A Big Deal Year
• Speeding Innovation On Several Fronts
• Roberts on '09 – And Beyond

• Through the Wire
• No Joke: Cable Comedies Out of Globes, SAG Mix

• Viewpoint
• The 'Four Rs’ of Customer Relations