Comcast Employees to Partner With Almost 300 Community Organizations on 'Comcast Cares Day' - Company Will Donate $1 Million to Partner Organizations

Comcast Employees to Partner With Almost 300 Community Organizations on 'Comcast Cares Day' - Company Will Donate $1 Million to Partner Organizations

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, October 1, more than 30,000 Comcast employees and their families will be volunteering with almost 300 community organizations in 32 states and the District of Columbia as part of one of the largest single-day corporate volunteer efforts in the United States - the fifth annual Comcast Cares Day. Comcast employees and their families will donate more than 180,000 volunteer hours of service - or the equivalent of 86 years of service - in one day.

"At Comcast, we have always believed that giving back to the community is important," said Comcast Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Brian L. Roberts. "We're extremely proud of our employees who have generously given of their time and talents to impact their neighborhoods on Comcast Cares Day and throughout the year. We're also excited to have the opportunity to work alongside so many community partners to make a difference."

Comcast Cares Day is a company-wide day of service in which Comcast employees and their families volunteer on the same day in their local communities. Local Comcast management and local community leaders identified non-profit partner organizations to address specific local needs.

Comcast's employee volunteers will represent every sector of the Comcast Family of Companies from its corporate headquarters in Philadelphia, to its local cable offices and including the company's content businesses: Comcast- Spectacor, Comcast SportsNet, E! Entertainment Television, The Golf Channel and OLN as well as Comcast Spotlight.

The Comcast Foundation will also donate over one million dollars in grants to the local community partner organizations on behalf of each employee and family member who volunteered on Comcast Cares Day. These partner grants are to help Comcast's community partners continue their mission throughout the year.

In addition to Comcast Cares Day, Comcast employees volunteer year-round with a variety of projects and organizations through the company's Comcast Cares program. For more information on Comcast's volunteer and community investment initiatives, visit at http://www.comcast.com/InTheCommunity/ .

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 21.4 million cable customers, 7.7 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, OLN, 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.

Sample list of projects performed by Comcast employee volunteers and their family members on Comcast Cares Day 2005:

Prince George's County, MD 300 Volunteers cleaning and landscaping at the Shepard's Cove Homeless Shelter

Plymouth, MI 500 Volunteers working on one mile of roadside beautification in Southfield, MI, culminating with clean up of Southfield's Community Recreation Center

Tucson, AZ 300 Volunteers working with Rebuilding Together Tucson; Comcast will be cleaning up 10-15 homes in the Barrio Hollywood neighborhood of Tucson

St. Paul, MN 600 Volunteers working with Great River Greening to clean up the shores of the Minnesota River basin

Pompano Beach, FL Over 300 volunteers painting and landscaping at the Deerfield Beach Middle School

Nashville, TN 240 Volunteers cleaning and painting at McGavock High School

Denver, CO 300 Volunteers cleaning and painting three homeless and abuse shelters in the Denver area

Philadelphia, PA 300 Volunteers painting classrooms, creating a new teachers lounge, refurbishing, updating computer systems and providing new gym equipment, air conditioners, TVs and library books at the Penn Treaty Middle School

Source: Comcast Corporation

CONTACT: Jenni Moyer, +1-215-851-3311, jenni_moyer@comcast.com, or Nancy Page, +1-215-981-7778, nancy_page@comcast.com, both of Comcast

Web site: http://www.comcast.com/ http://www.comcast.com/InTheCommunity

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