Comcast Helps Bring Troops Home for the Holidays

Comcast Helps Bring Troops Home for the Holidays

"Troop Greetings On Demand" Delivers 1,000 Troop Messages On Demand and Online To Millions of Customers from Vermont to Virginia, Detroit to Denver

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Comcast today announced the launch of "Troop Greetings On Demand," a service that allows the families and friends of military personnel stationed overseas to view special holiday greetings from their loved ones any time of the day or night and as often as they like at no additional cost. For the fifth consecutive year, Troop Greetings will be available to Comcast Digital Cable customers through the "Get Local" category of Comcast's signature On Demand service until the end of January 2009. Online greetings will also be accessible through Comcast's Internet portal, www.comcast.com, starting December 23.

More than 1,000 messages are available to millions of customers throughout Comcast service areas in Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia.

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. 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 remote locations, as well as those serving as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Watch Troop Greetings On Demand

On Demand allows Comcast Digital Cable customers to watch the personalized holiday greetings at a time most convenient for them, and as often as they want. The greetings are part of Comcast's growing On Demand lineup, which now offers more than 10,000 programs a month that can be viewed on customers' own schedules with the ability to pause, fast-forward and rewind. Troop Greetings are grouped together and categorized by state. Comcast Digital Cable customers can access the greeting just by going to the On Demand library from their remote control, clicking on the "Get Local" section and then selecting "Troop Greetings" and the respective state. Individual greetings are approximately five to 25 seconds each.

Watch Troop Greetings Online

Starting December 23, most of the holiday Troop Greetings will be available for online streaming at www.comcast.com/TroopGreetings.

In some areas, Comcast will provide complimentary digital service upgrades for families of service personnel seen in this year's greetings who are Comcast standard cable subscribers. Upgrades will be offered for the duration of the Troop Greetings On Demand program. In addition, the general public can view greetings at most Comcast service centers.

About Comcast Corporation

Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA)(NASDAQ:CMCSK) (www.comcast.com) is the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communication products and services. With 24.4 million cable customers, 14.7 million high-speed Internet customers, and 6.1 million Comcast Digital 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, Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, ten Comcast SportsNet networks and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast's Internet businesses, including Comcast.net (www.comcast.net). 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: Marc Goodman of Comcast Corporation, +1-617-279-7521,
marc_goodman@cable.comcast.com

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

NOTE TO EDITORS: Troop Greetings screen images are available, and interviews with families can be arranged. Please contact PR group to coordinate.

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