Comcast Delivers Holiday Greetings From Troops
By Multi Channel News Staff -- Multichannel News, 12/12/2007 10:07:00 AM MT
Comcast is offering up hundreds of videotaped greetings from U.S. military personnel stationed abroad to 9 million digital cable customers via video on demand.
“Troop Greetings On Demand” – available in the New England and Pittsburgh regions before expanding to a nine-state region and the District of Columbia later this month – is available on Comcast’s “Get Local” VOD section for the fourth consecutive year.
This year, Comcast is adding online podcasts through CN8: The Comcast Network’s Web site, and online greetings available through comcast.net. CN8 will also present CN8 Holiday Troop Greetings, a one-hour special featuring Comcast employees who are military veterans or have family on active duty.
With assistance from CN8, hundreds of videotapes from Army/Air Force Hometown News Service were secured and edited into short video greetings for viewers and high-speed Internet customers. Comcast said the total ended up being close to 1,000.
Each message includes the service member’s name and hometown, and some messages include the serviceperson’s family. Featured messages are from military personnel and civilian staff stationed around the world at bases in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Japan, Alaska, Korea and other locations.
Comcast said in some areas it will provide complimentary digital service upgrades for customers with family members seen in this year’s greetings who do not have digital cable. The general public also can view greetings at most Comcast payment centers throughout these regions.
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