Comcast Announces Expanded On Demand Coverage of Pope Benedict XVI's U.S. Visit

Comcast Announces Expanded On Demand Coverage of Pope Benedict XVI's U.S. Visit

Comcast To Add More Papal Meetings, Speeches and Ceremonies On Demand

BOSTON, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast, the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communications, today announced that it is expanding its On Demand coverage of Pope Benedict XVI's historic visit to the United States this week.

Starting today, Thursday's Papal Mass at Nationals Stadium in Washington, D.C. is available for On Demand viewing with more On Demand content produced by EWTN Global Catholic Network and CatholicTV posted on Monday, April 21. All Comcast Digital Cable customers will be able to view these programs at no additional charge and whenever they want, with the ability to pause, fast- forward and rewind.

Coverage of the Pope's visit will be available On Demand through April 27 and includes:

-- White House welcoming ceremony
-- Celebration of Vespers and meeting with the Bishops of the United
States of America
-- Papal meeting with the communities of Catholic universities
-- Papal meeting with representatives from other religions
-- Pope Benedict XVI's speech at the United Nations
-- Holy Mass with priests at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York
-- Papal meeting with youth and seminarians at St. Joseph's Seminary in
New York
-- Visit to Ground Zero
-- And as previously announced, Thursday's Papal Mass in Washington, D.C.
and Sunday's Papal Mass at Yankee Stadium in New York

Comcast Digital Cable customers can watch these special events by choosing the "Get Local" section of On Demand and then selecting the "Papal Mass" folder.

Comcast's signature On Demand service continues to be a one-stop destination for local and entertainment programming - available anytime a customer wants to watch. Comcast's expanding On Demand library today offers more than 10,000 titles per month, the vast majority of which are available for no extra charge to all digital cable customers. Since 2003, Comcast customers have viewed more than seven billion On Demand programs nationwide, including more than one billion in New England alone.

For more information about Comcast Digital Cable and On Demand, call 1- 800-COMCAST or visit www.comcast.com.

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 24.1 million cable customers, 13.2 million high-speed Internet customers and 4.6 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, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, ten Comcast SportsNet networks and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast's Internet business. 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.

Comcast's New England regions serve 2.6 million customers in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut and New York and employ nearly 7,000 individuals.

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