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Video: Verizon, Comcast Q2 Up Against Weak Period

Comcast and Verizon Communications (VZ) kick off Q2 earnings for communications companies with reports out before the market open Tuesday morning, with the nation’s No. 1 cable TV firm seen growing profit by 11% and Verizon’s EPS, boosted by wireless service, expected to rise 23%. Comcast (CMCSA) is expected to report profit of 72 cents per share, up 11% from the year-earlier period, with revenue up 4% to $16.98 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson

NBCU Unorthodox Ad Plan Spans Broadcast, Cable, Web

One of the biggest media conglomerates is betting that scale can make the sale to advertisers. Aided by new technology platforms, Comcast’s (CMCSA) NBCUniversal is a year into an advertising strategy considered near-blasphemous in the TV industry: selling ad packages across its broad swath of two broadcast, 17 cable and 50-plus digital properties instead of handling each property type individually. The idea is to deliver ads with more reach and

New Charter Gets Midwest; Comcast Keeps N.Y., Calif.

Charter Communications can’t claim its consolation prize from the takeover battle for Time Warner Cable vs. Comcast until federal regulators rule on the industry’s biggest proposed merger ever. Charter (CHTR) shareholders seem fine with the scenario. Charter’s stock has shot up since the company announced a complex deal with Comcast (CMCSA) on April 28. If regulators, as expected, approve the merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable (TWC) by year’s