Elephants on Demand

Comcast Corp.'s digital customers will get on-demand access to major speeches from the Republican National Convention next week in New York, as well as to the ensuing presidential and vice presidential debates.

Comcast, the nation's largest cable MSO, is teaming with C-SPAN to give viewers next-day access to the speeches and debates, plus two-week access to each day of C-SPAN's convention coverage.

Comcast offered the same package for the Democrats gathering in Boston.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.