Comcast Washington

Comcast Airs PSA for YWCA of Pierce County

Comcast is pleased to be airing a public service announcement to help raise awareness – and money – for a much-needed shelter in Pierce County, Washington. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OAhVMwJ1Pc&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0] Here’s what the YWCA’s Kelly McDonald told us about the effort: The YWCA is proud to have offered safety to women and children fleeing violence for over three […]

The “cable guy”: Breaking down some stereotypes & showing what a Comcast communications technician does

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssPLgn5ZG9k] After years of being “the customer,” I finally had a chance to follow a cable technician to see what it’s like on the inside of the cable business. I learned that cable technicians aren’t just “cable guys.” My name’s Katelin Chow, and I’m a junior at the University of Washington and have been interning […]

3D: Is it the the killer app for sports fans?

Like a lot of sports fans, now that I’ve had an HD set since the Seattle Seahawks were in the Super Bowl, I’ve been ruined for watching sports in anything less than high definition. The sport really doesn’t matter. Football, baseball, basketball, tennis, soccer, bike racing: it is all better in high definition. But what […]

PSA Encourages Employers to Hire Veterans

We’ll be making a formal announcement soon, but here’s a quick description of a TV spot you’ll have seen, or will soon see, on Comcast in Washington state. Our own Ed Hauge produced this spot with the organization Hire America’s Heroes. Our local Comcast VP for Human Resources, Michael Cindric, is on their board of […]

Change: What a Telecom and Taxpayers have in Common

Here we are in the Vancouver, Washington, conference center: Men and women, moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas. There’s a fella who retired after running Radio Shacks on Whidbey Island. There’s a lady who owns a machine parts-cutting manufacturing plant in Spokane Valley. There’s the bank officer, there’s the 20-something who runs a marketing and […]