Comcast wins People's Choice Award for The Fan(TM) Media Player

Comcast wins People's Choice Award for The Fan(TM) Media Player

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA)(NASDAQ:CMCSK), the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services, announced that it has received the "People's Choice Award" for The Fan(TM) media player at the 16th Flashforward Conference and Film Festival held in Austin, TX from September 11-14, 2006. The Fan competed against 60 other Internet sites and applications for the coveted award.

The Fan streams video clips on Comcast's award-winning portal Comcast.net to the company's 10 million high-speed Internet subscribers and provides an easy way to find, search, watch, organize and save favorite video content. The Fan streams hundreds of thousands of short-form video clips related to entertainment, games, shopping, travel and other content that consumers want to view online. The Fan averages about 3 million video downloads a day.

The Flashforward conference is the largest international Flash-related film festival in the world. Every year the top sites on the Web that use Flash technology are entered as contestants in the festival. People's Choice award is the only award judged by actual Internet users, rather than a panel of experts.

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 23.3 million cable customers, 10 million high-speed Internet customers, and 1.6 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.

Comcast's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, OLN, G4, AZN Television, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One and four regional Comcast SportsNets. Comcast 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.

Source: Comcast Corporation

CONTACT: Vibha Agrawal of Comcast Corporation, +1-215-981-8410,
vibha_agrawal@comcast.com

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

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