{"id":1004603,"date":"2026-04-25T10:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004603"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:16:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:46:30","slug":"comcast-beats-estimates-on-sports-boost-easing-broadband-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/comcast-beats-estimates-on-sports-boost-easing-broadband-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Comcast beats estimates on sports boost, easing broadband losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comcast topped Wall Street expectations for the first quarter on Thursday, as a blockbuster sports lineup boosted subscriber growth and engagement, while its core broadband business lost fewer customers than anticipated. <\/p>\n<p>Shares of the company jumped nearly 8% in premarket trading. <\/p>\n<p>A packed live sports calendar, capped by the Winter Olympics, Super Bowl \u200cand the return \u2060of \u2060National Basketball League games, drove stronger advertising sales and user growth at the company&#8217;s Peacock streaming service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comcast topped Wall Street expectations for the first quarter on Thursday, as a blockbuster sports lineup boosted subscriber growth and engagement, while its core broadband business lost fewer customers than anticipated. Shares of the company jumped nearly 8% in premarket trading. A packed live sports calendar, capped by the Winter Olympics, Super Bowl \u200cand the return \u2060of \u2060National Basketball League games, drove stronger advertising sales and user growth at the company&#8217;s Peacock streaming service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004624,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004603\/revisions\/1004624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}