COMCAST ANNOUNCES AGREEMENTS WITH TWO NEW AFRICAN AMERICAN MAJORITY OWNED INDEPENDENT NETWORKS
AFRO and CLEO TV Will Launch on Comcast's Xfinity TV in January 2019 Philadelphia, PA - November 15, 2018 - Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA) today announced it has selected two new African American majority owned independent networks to be broadly distributed on Comcast Cable systems beginning in January 2019. After a thorough evaluation of dozens of proposals, Comcast selected AFRO and CLEO TV, both of which will provide quality entertainment that highlights and features TV and movie content about African American and black communities. "The offerings from both AFRO and CLEO TV serve as an excellent complement to the growing catalog of programming choices we offer about global black communities," said Keesha Boyd, Executive Director, Multicultural Products at Comcast Cable. " We remain committed to delivering a wide array of programming by partnering with independent networks, such as the two we're announcing today, to...