Brian Roberts graduates from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and joins Comcast full time as a trainee for the Trenton system.After the preview period, more than 3,000 customers ordered the service.
Brian Roberts received his first training as a cable installer in the Company’s Westmoreland cable system, where he learned how to install cable in homes, handle service calls and climb poles.Brian Roberts has his first internship at Comcast working for Storecast on supermarket promotions.1 in size among independent Muzak operators, operating in 10 major marketing areas. Comcast’s Music Network Division becomes No.Stock is traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the ticker symbol CMCSA.
Comcast marks its first public stock offering.American Cable Systems is renamed Comcast and incorporated in Pennsylvania.Comcast acquires its first Muzak franchise in Orlando, FL and over the next several years would acquire many more.Comcast purchases Storecast Corporation of America, a marketing firm that helped food companies track and improve the placement of their products in supermarkets.Dan Aaron and Julian Brodsky join as Ralph’s earliest colleagues who would help build the Company. Comcast is founded by Ralph Roberts with the purchase of American Cable Systems, a 1,200-subscriber cable system in Tupelo, MS.From our beginnings as a single-system cable operator in Tupelo, MS in 1963, Comcast has grown into a global leader in media, entertainment and technology, driven by an entrepreneurial spirit to connect people to the moments that matter.