(SPOKANE, 9/16/08) The Spokane Chiefs and Comcast Cable have announced a television package that will air on Comcast Cable 78. Twelve games, six at home and six on the road, will air beginning with the Chiefs first game on Thursday, September 18 as Spokane visits the Kootenay Ice to begin defense of their Memorial Cup Championship.

Comcast will also produce “Chiefs Insider,” a magazine style show. The games and the “Chiefs Insider” program will be available On Demand within a few hours after the original broadcasts. They will remain On Demand for the duration of the Chiefs’ season.

“This is a big investment for us and we couldn’t be more excited to be the exclusive television provider of the Spokane Chiefs. The games and “Chiefs Insider” will be available at no charge on Comcast On Demand to anyone who has digital cable,” said Ken Watts, Spokane general manager for Comcast. “Many of us at Comcast are Chiefs fans. This gives all of us in Spokane another way to follow our hometown team.”

For the third year in a row, Comcast will air games originating from the Tri-Cities when the Chiefs travel to take on their U.S. Division rival Americans. As a part of the reciprocal agreement, five Chiefs-Americans games from the Spokane Arena will air on MY Network station 42.2 digital in the Tri-Cities and 35.2 KAPP in Yakima. The game from Kootenay will be picked up by Comcast in Spokane from a Shaw Cable Broadcast airing across Canada.

On Demand offers Comcast Digital Cable customers more control than ever before, with the ability to choose from movies, music, sports, news, instructional and entertainment programming and more, all with the functionality of a VCR.

Comcast launched On Demand to its Spokane customers in 2005 and currently offers 7,000 programs. The service has become extremely popular, with Spokane customers viewing On Demand programs more than 100,000 times a week, according to figures compiled by Comcast.

About Comcast Corporation
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (http://www.comcast.com) is the nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communication products and services. With 24.6 million cable customers, 14.4 million high-speed Internet customers, and 5.6 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.

Comcast’s content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, ten Comcast SportsNets networks and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast’s Internet businesses, including Comcast.net (www.comcast.net). Comcast also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.

Comcast has 3,000 employees, including 160 in Spokane, who serve more than 1.1 million customers in Washington. The company was voted a “Best Company to Work For” by Washington CEO Magazine in 2007 and 2008.