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NBCUniversal News Group will invest $6.5 million over the next two years in NBCU Academy, a new multiplatform journalism training and development program for four-year university and community college students. The initiative includes $3.5 million in scholarships, the company, a division of Comcast, announced…

Comcast’s European pay-TV giant Sky has outlined new environmental standards for its originals, including an ambition to ensure shows including Gangs Of London and A League Of Their Own are net zero on carbon emissions. The broadcaster set out the Sustainable Production Principles as it announced that it will be the…

Jeremy Darroch is stepping down as the CEO of European pay-TV giant Sky after 13 years. In his place, Comcast is installing one of its own executives: Dana Strong, president of consumer services. Darroch first joined Sky in 2004 as CFO and was elevated to chief executive three years later. He has overseen a period of…

Disney has reached a distribution deal with Comcast for the integration of Disney+ and ESPN+ into the No. 1 U.S. cable operator’s Xfinity X1 and Flex broadband services. The company on Thursday during its Disney Investor Day presentation also announced an update to the successful bundle it rolled out with Disney+…

Comcast-owned Sky News has taken arguably its top presenter, Kay Burley, off-air for six months after she breached the UK’s coronavirus rules over the weekend. In a statement, Sky said: “Sky News has completed an internal review into the conduct of a small number of team members who attended a social event on the…

Jeff Shell, chief executive of NBCUniversal, said the film business had "stayed stuck in the mud" and was "leaving a lot of money on the table" even as the rest of the entertainment industry has rapidly evolved. Speaking at a UBS conference on the topic that's currently roiling Hollywood, he described "a whole segment…

CBS All Access has been integrated into Comcast’s Xfinity X1 pay-TV offering in a first for the five-year-old ViacomCBS streaming service. Xfinity had added the subscription outlet to its Flex broadband video bundle earlier this year. It is the first pay-TV operator to carry the streaming service, a noteworthy moment…

Steve Carell plays Santa Claus leading an elf reinvention of Christmas in The Greatest Gift, the latest long-form ad for Xfinity TV and broadband. The Comcast division debuted a two-minute version of the short film on NBC’s broadcast of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, with a three-and-a-half-minute version going…

Comcast’s plan to increase fees for a range of services, including broadband Internet and pay-TV, in January is eliciting a wave of online customer complaints. As more parts of business and society move fully online, the Philadelphia-based cable and broadband giant is also expanding a 1.2-terabyte home Internet data…

Comcast has taken COVID-related severance and restructuring charges of $239 million to date and will see a hit of "about double that" in the current fourth quarter as it continues to align the cost structure across its businesses, CFO Mike Cavanaugh said Thursday. That’s a total north of $700 million. As theme parks…

NBCUniversal chief Jeff Shell Thursday called Peacock “the opposite of Quibi,” predicted struggling theme parks will break even or better next year and gave some — albeit minimal — color on the upfront. Peacock had 22 million signups, exceeding projections, and drawing on a combination of old, beloved content from the…

Comcast-owned European pay-TV giant Sky’s revenue enjoyed a return to form in the third quarter of 2020 after its sales were hit by the coronavirus pandemic earlier in the year. Buoyed by the Premier League’s restart in mid-June, Sky’s revenue climbed 0.3% to a total of $4.8BN in the three months to the end of…