Comcast SportsNet Northwest Launches in Seattle Area

Comcast SportsNet Northwest Launches in Seattle Area

Network Brings Trail Blazers, NHL Coverage

SEATTLE, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast Cable and Comcast SportsNet Northwest, home of the most comprehensive local sports content, today announces the network is launching to sports fans in the Seattle region with coverage including 55 Portland Trail Blazers NBA games and 60 NHL games featuring the Vancouver Canucks or the San Jose Sharks.

The network is carried on Comcast digital preferred channel 179, and is available on other local providers. Viewers with other providers can check http://www.csnnw.com/ or call 877-8-CSNNW-9 (877-827-6699) for information on Comcast SportsNet's local availability.

"Now that we don't have a Seattle-area NBA team, we are excited to bring the Trail Blazers to our Washington customers," said Tom Pierce, vice president of sales and marketing for Comcast. "If you want local sports, we've got more than any other provider. In addition to Comcast SportsNet Northwest, we also offer hundreds of hours of local On Demand sports programming which includes dozens of high school sports games; boxing; semi-pro beach volleyball; UW volleyball; Everett Silvertips; Seattle Sounders soccer; Seahawks All-Access show; Holmgren Q&A and the Husky Honks show."

Comcast SportsNet is the 24/7 home of Northwest sports featuring live game coverage of 55 exclusive Trail Blazers games, including 33 in HDTV; approximately 60 NHL games, including 50 featuring the Canucks or Sharks; and college sports including the University of Washington, University of Oregon, and more. Comcast SportsNet also offers daily sports news, talk and analysis to give fans the inside look at the teams and players that matter most in the region.

Comcast Sports Group operates 10 sports networks that cover more than 2,400 live sporting events annually and deliver comprehensive sports news and analysis to 40 million cable and satellite homes. Comcast Sports Group's networks are: Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, Comcast SportsNet California, Comcast SportsNet Chicago, Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic, Comcast SportsNet New England, Comcast SportsNet Northwest, Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, SportsNet New York, The Mtn. -- Mountain West Sports Network, and CSS. These networks provide live game coverage of 18 professional teams, as well as college, minor league and other sports. For more information, see ComcastSportsNet.com.

Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) (NASDAQ:CMCSK) (http://www.comcast.com/) is the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communication products and services. With 24.6 million cable customers, 14.4 million high- speed Internet customers, and 5.6 million 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, The Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, ten Comcast SportsNets networks and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast's Internet businesses, including Comcast.net (http://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.

Comcast has 3,000 employees, including 160 in Spokane, who serve more than 1.1 million customers in Washington. The company was voted a "Best Company to Work For" by Washington CEO Magazine in 2007 and 2008.

    Contact:    Shauna Causey                     Tim Fitzpatrick    Comcast Cable                     Comcast Sports Group    425.471.1964                      215.286.5762    Shauna_causey@cable.comcast.com   tfitzpatrick@comcastsportsnet.com  

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CONTACT: Shauna Causey of Comcast Cable, +1-425-471-1964,
Shauna_causey@cable.comcast.com; or Tim Fitzpatrick of Comcast Sports Group,
+1-215-286-5762, tfitzpatrick@comcastsportsnet.com

Web site: http://www.comcast.com/
http://www.comcast.net/
http://www.csnnw.com/

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