Question: What creative union aired grievances against Comcast in 2011?
Answer: Writers Guild of America

Question: In what internal publication was Comcast's union stance formally enumerated?
Answer: one of the company's training manuals

Question: What magazine listed Comcast as one of its top places to work?
Answer: CableFAX

Question: What is Comcast's affiliated entity in Philadelphia?
Answer: Comcast-Spectacor

Question: What newspaper named Comcast it's top place to work?
Answer: The Boston Globe

Question: In what year did this newspaper confer this honor on Comcast?
Answer: 2009

Question: On what aspect did Black Enterprise Magazine name Comcast a top 15 employer?
Answer: workforce diversity

Question: What was Comcast's share value in 1999?
Answer: $8.19

Question: What was Comcast's share value in 2009?
Answer: $15

Question: Comcast's revenues in 2009 were how much?
Answer: $36 billion

Question: What was Comcast's profit margin in 2009?
Answer: 8.4%

Question: What caused a 2012 spike in Comcast profits?
Answer: increase in high-speed internet customers

Question: What was Comcast's lobbying budget in 2013?
Answer: $18.8 million

Question: Where did this lobbying budget place the company among all entities in the country?
Answer: seventh largest

Question: What is the name of the industry association that represents all cable companies in Washington?
Answer: The National Cable & Telecommunications Association

Question: What is the name of Comcast's affiliated political action committee?
Answer: Comcast Corporation and NBCUniversal Political Action Committee

Question: How much did this PAC raise for candidates in US elections from 2011 through 2012?
Answer: $3.7 million

Question: When did Ralph Roberts get into the cable TV business?
Answer: 1963

Question: Who were Roberts' business partners in this purchase?
Answer: Daniel Aaron and Julian A. Brodsky

Question: What company did this partnership purchase?
Answer: American Cable Systems

Question: What city did American Cable Systems do business in?
Answer: Tupelo, Mississippi

Question: How many customers did ACS have when Roberts and his partners purchased it?
Answer: 12,000

Question: How many paying customers did Comcast have in 1994?
Answer: 3.5 million

Question: Comcast's customer base in 1994 was good enough for what national ranking among its competition?
Answer: third largest

Question: What sports network was Comcast a founding investor of?
Answer: The Golf Channel

Question: In what year did Comcast take over a majority interest in QVC?
Answer: 1994

Question: What company did Comcast sell its interest in QVC to in 2004?
Answer: Liberty Media

Question: What was Comcast's telecommunication business prior to 1999?
Answer: Comcast Cellular

Question: What company did Comcast sell their telecommunications company to?
Answer: SBC Communications

Question: How much was ComCast Cellular sold for in 1999?
Answer: $400 million

Question: What internet commerce company did Comcast invest in?
Answer: VeriSign

Question: MediaOne merged with what telecommunications company?
Answer: AT&T Corporation

Question: When did Comcast acquire the cable assets of AT&T Broadband?
Answer: 2001

Question: What did Comcast pay for this subsidiary?
Answer: $44.5 billion

Question: What was the original name of AT&T Broadband and Comcast going to be?
Answer: AT&T Comcast

Question: When Comcast purchased AT&T Broadband, how many customers did they service?
Answer: 22 million

Question: Comcast's advertising and commercial production branch was called what?
Answer: Comcast Spotlight

Question: What media conglomerate did Comcast try to buy in 2004?
Answer: The Walt Disney Company

Question: How much money did Comcast offer for this company?
Answer: $54 billion

Question: What month in 2004 did Comcast drop it's bid for this company?
Answer: April

Question: Comcast dropped their bid to focus on acquiring what sports network?
Answer: ESPN

Question: Besides offering money, what else did Comcast include in their proposal to buy Disney?
Answer: taking on $12 billion of Disney's debt

Question: Comcast joined with what media company to acquire a movie studio in 2005?
Answer: Sony Pictures Entertainment

Question: What movie studios did Comcast and their partner buy?
Answer: MGM and its affiliate studio, United Artists

Question: What Pennsylvania cable provider did Comcast buy controlling interest in during 2005?
Answer: Susquehanna Communications

Question: When did Comcast formally announce its purchase of this cable provider?
Answer: October 31, 2005

Question: How much did Comcast pay for this cable tv provider?
Answer: $775 million cash

Question: What was the name of the interface front-end introduced by Comcast in 2007?
Answer: a dashboard called SmartZone

Question: What company designed this interface?
Answer: Hewlett-Packard

Question: Smartzone used what company's antivirus protection?
Answer: Trend Micro

Question: The contacts and address book for Smartzone was called what?
Answer: Comcast Plaxo software

Question: When was Smartzone rolled out to customers?
Answer: September 2008

Question: What bankrupt company did Comcast partner with another broadband provider to acquire in 2005?
Answer: Adelphia Cable

Question: Who was Comcast's partner in the deal for Adelphia?
Answer: Time Warner Cable

Question: What was the price to take over Adelphia?
Answer: $17.6 billion

Question: What government organization investigated details of this acquisition?
Answer: the U.S. Federal Communications Commission

Question: When was this deal finalized?
Answer: second quarter of 2006

Question: What media conglomerate did Comcast begin preliminary talks to buy in 2009?
Answer: NBCUniversal

Question: What was NBC's parent company in 2009?
Answer: General Electric

Question: What ownership stake did Ccomcast get in this deal?
Answer: 51%

Question: What company was forced to sell its interest in NBCUniversal as part of the purchase deal?
Answer: Vivendi

Question: What other cable company was reputed to have an interest in NBCUniversal?
Answer: Time Warner

Question: On what date was Comcast's purchase of controlling interest in NBCUniversal reported?
Answer: December 3, 2009

Question: What did Comcast pay for their stake in NBC?
Answer: $6.5 billion in cash and $7.3 billion in programming

Question: How did the FCC vote approval of the Comcast-NBC deal?
Answer: 4 to 1

Question: On what date was the sale finally completed?
Answer: January 28, 2011

Question: On what date did Comcast buy out the remaining stake of General Electric in NBC?
Answer: March 19, 2013

Question: What publication originally reported a potential deal between Comcast and Time Warner?
Answer: the Los Angeles Times

Question: What was the value of the deal reported to be at the time?
Answer: $45.2 billion

Question: When did Comcast hope to complete its deal for Time Warner?
Answer: by the end of 2014

Question: Who was the head of the FCC at the time of Comcast's proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable?
Answer: Tom Wheeler

Question: What two organizations had Wheeler headed prior to joining the FCC?
Answer: National Cable & Telecommunications Association, and as largest wireless lobby, CTIA – The Wireless Association

Question: What group sought to investigate the purchase on anti-trust grounds?
Answer: United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division

Question: What Senate group held hearings on the purchase?
Answer: US Senate Judiciary Committee

Question: Who was the general counsel of the FCC in 2015?
Answer: Jonathan Sallet

Question: Disney and Comcast joined forces to allow Comcast to air what sports networks?
Answer: ESPNU and ESPN3

Question: What network was proposed by Comcast and the US Olympic Committee?
Answer: The U.S. Olympic Network

Question: What city hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Vancouver