Comcast and The Walt Disney Company Announce Content Carriage Agreement

PHILADELPHIA & BURBANK, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comcast and The Walt Disney Company announced today the companies have renewed their content carriage agreement and will continue to make Disney’s robust lineup of sports, news, kids, family and general entertainment programming available to Xfinity TV customers. Additionally, Comcast will distribute the ACC Network to its Xfinity customers, allowing fans and followers of the Atlantic Coast Conference to access the multiplatform network in the coming weeks.

The multi-year agreement encompasses continued distribution of Disney’s cable channels, including the ESPN networks, the Disney branded channels, Freeform, the FX networks, and the National Geographic channels. The renewal also includes continued distribution of the SEC Network, now in its eighth season, as well as retransmission consent for the ABC Owned Television Stations in New York (ABC7/WABC-TV), Chicago (ABC7/WLS-TV), Philadelphia (6ABC/WPVI-TV), San Francisco (ABC7/KGO-TV), Houston (ABC13/KTRK-TV), Raleigh-Durham (ABC11/WTVD-TV) and Fresno (ABC30/KFSN-TV). Earlier this year, Comcast launched Disney+

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AMC, Disney earnings, job openings, inflation data top week ahead

Investors will take in key jobs and inflation data in the upcoming week along with a fresh round of corporate earnings. 

Already, for the second quarter, over 87% of S&P 500 companies have beaten revenue and profit expectations. 

As a result, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P closed at record highs on Friday. 

Ticker Security Last Change Change %
I:DJI DOW JONES AVERAGES 35208.51 +144.26 +0.41%
SP500 S&P 500 4436.52 +7.42 +0.17%
I:COMP NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX 14835.761829 -59.36 -0.40%

FOX Business takes a look at the upcoming events that are likely to move financial markets in the coming days. 

Monday 8/9

BioNTech, Dish Network, Energizer Holdings, Tegna and Tyson Foods are among the big names that will kick off the week

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Comcast and Disney Lookup for Best Spokespeople for News Models

  • NBCUniversal News Team and ABC Information are browsing for new PR leaders.
  • The roles are some of the most influential positions in the small business. 
  • Insiders are speculating about all the folks who could fill the roles.

NBCUniversal and ABC News are hunting for prime communications talent after a string of management shake-ups and departures, stirring speculation about who may well be in line for some of the most influential positions in the organization. 

NBCUniversal News Team chairman Cesar Conde, who took about from Andy Absence very last year, is looking to swap Mark Kornblau, who is becoming a member of Softbank as world wide head of communications. 

New ABC News president Kimberly Godwin has been seeking for two senior PR executives to swap Julie Townsend and Van Scott, who still left in the wake of James Goldston’s sudden departure as news president. Townsend joined AmEx even though Scott joined

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