Seattle-Area Chefs Showcase Recipes on the Bite Cooks! Exclusively on Comcast on Demand

Seattle-Area Chefs Showcase Recipes on the Bite Cooks! Exclusively on Comcast on Demand

Viewers Can Pause, Rewind, or Fast Forward the Program as 28 of Seattle's Top Chefs Demonstrate Recipes on Demand

SEATTLE, August 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Seattle-area celebrity chefs from more than two dozen popular restaurants including Palisade, The Herbfarm and Salty's on Alki demonstrate their entrees and reveal culinary secrets in an exclusive series available only on Comcast ON DEMAND. The Bite Cooks!, showcasing 28 Seattle-area chefs from the Bite of Seattle, airs over the next eleven weeks and is available free to Comcast Digital Cable subscribers.

Comcast Digital Cable customers can use ON DEMAND to access more than 3,000 hours of programs. With Comcast ON DEMAND, customers have total control, with the ability to rewind, fast-forward and pause programs. In addition to exclusive local programs, viewers can choose from popular movies, music videos, sports, news, instructional and previously syndicated programming. An on-screen channel guide makes selecting Comcast ON DEMAND content quick and easy and comes with custom parental controls.

"We're passionate about offering Seattle-area customers unique local programs," said Tom Pierce, VP of Marketing and Sales for Comcast's Washington market. "Comcast ON DEMAND has changed the way our customers watch TV by giving them the opportunity to watch their favorite shows around their schedules. Using this technology to showcase prominent events like The Bite of Seattle, distinguishes Comcast as a truly local television service provider."

Fourteen different programs, with two chefs in each segment, air over eleven weeks. New shows will be added every Monday throughout August and September. Among the featured chefs are: Daisley Gordon, Campagne; John Howie, Seastar Restaurant and Raw Bar; Thierry Rautureau, Rover's; Eric Larson, Shamiana; Jerry Traunfeld, Herbfarm; and, Renatto Medranda, Coldwater Bar and Grill.

In addition to The Bite Cooks!, Comcast ON DEMAND features other Western Washington neighborhood festivals, sports programming including Seattle Supersonics, Seahawks, Thunderbirds and Sounders as well as local high school sports.

About Comcast Corporation

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 21.5 million cable customers, 7.4 million high- speed Internet customers, and 1.2 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable networks and in the delivery of programming content.

The Company's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, Outdoor Life Network, G4, AZN Television, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One and four regional Comcast SportsNets. The Company 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 Class A common stock and Class A Special common stock trade on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbols CMCSA and CMCSK, respectively.

Comcast has 2,700 employees who serve more than 1.1 million customers in Washington. Seattle Magazine recently named Comcast as one of the area's top 47 places to work.

Contact: Shauna Causey Comcast 425-398-6093 Shauna_causey@cable.comcast.com

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