High School Football on Your Terms With Comcast ON DEMAND

High School Football on Your Terms With Comcast ON DEMAND

IRVING, Texas, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- From the crash of a lineman's block to the leaping reception of a wide receiver, this high school football season is packed with action, and with Comcast ON DEMAND, customers can catch that excitement whenever they want to watch it.

Twenty-five selected games featuring Arlington, Irving, Richardson, Plano and other area schools will be offered during this season. Additionally, the thrills of selected playoff games will be available, so that customers can catch up with the action whenever it's convenient for them.

Games currently available or scheduled include:
* L.D. Bell vs. Bowie - September 2, 2005
* Dallas Skyline vs. Arlington - September 9, 2005
* Irving Nimitz vs. Lamar - September 16, 2005
* Azle vs. Seguine - September 23, 2005
* J.J. Pearce vs. Lake Highlands - September 23, 2005
* Arlington vs. Bowie - September 30, 2005
* Plano vs. Plano West - September 30, 2005
* L.D. Bell vs. Trinity - October 7, 2005
* Lake Highlands vs. Berkner - October 7, 2005
* Trinity vs. L.D. Bell - October 14, 2005
* Berkner vs. J.J. Pearce - October 14, 2005
* Jesuit vs. Richardson - October 21, 2005
* Bowie vs. Sam Houston - October 21, 2005
* Plano East vs. Plano - October 28, 2005
* Allen vs. Plano East - November 4, 2005

Other regular season and playoff games will be added on the basis of team standings later in the season. To view these games go to: ON DEMAND>Get Local>High School Sports and select the game you want to view.

Along with high school sports, Comcast is once again offering NFL Replay, 8-20 minute extended highlights of each NFL game available the day after the games are played. During its rookie year, Comcast Digital Cable customers viewed NFL game highlights more than 8.6 million times, this year when Comcast offered profiles of NFL Draft prospects, customers viewed those programs more than 530,000 times.

"Comcast is continuing to expand its VOD sports programming by bringing important local high school games to customers in a whole new way," said Sanford Ames, Jr, Area Vice President for Comcast Dallas. "With the ease, control and convenience of VOD, Comcast Digital Cable customers can do their own instant replays, relive past victories and even get a possible preview of teams they'll face in the future." In addition to local sports coverage customers can't see anywhere else, Comcast's ON DEMAND service features more than 3,000 programs that customers can watch at any time, including fitness shows, children's programs, music videos, instructional shows, news and information programming and much more.

About Comcast

Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA)(NASDAQ:CMCSK) (http://www.comcast.com/ ) is the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services. With 21.5 million cable customers, 7.4 million high- speed Internet customers, and 1.2 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable networks and in the delivery of programming content.

The Company's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, Outdoor Life Network, G4, AZN Television, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One and four regional Comcast SportsNets. The Company 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. Comcast Class A common stock and Class A Special common stock trade on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbols CMCSA and CMCSK, respectively.

Comcast, whose regional offices are located in Irving, serves more than half a million customers and employs more than 1,500 people in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

Source: Comcast

CONTACT: Jim Gordon of Comcast, +1-972-830-3811

Web site: http://www.comcast.com/

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