Comcast

Comcast Corporation, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the largest cable company in the United States. They develop broadband cable networks and are involved in electronic retailing and television programming content.

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Comcast was founded in 1963 by Ralph J. Roberts, Daniel Aaron, and Julian A. Brodsky in Tupelo, Mississippi. The company was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1969, under the name Comcast Corporation from American Cable Systems.

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Moving into the area of programming content, Comcast became majority owner of Comcast-Spectacor, Comcast SportsNet (in Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington/Baltimore metro and Sacramento, California), E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, G4, The Golf Channel and OLN (formerly known as Outdoor Life Network) over a period of years. In 2006, Comcast will start a new sports channel in cooperation with Major League Baseball's New York Mets in the greater New York City region.

Philadelphia: Philadelphia () is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the sixth-most-populous city in the United States....

Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania (the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) is one of four states of the United States of America that is called a commonwealth. It has given its name to the Pennsylvanian time period in geology. Pennsylvania is called the Keystone State....

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