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by Mike Farrell

Comcast COO Hints At Hunt for Content -- Not More Systems

Comcast chief operating officer Steve Burke briefly shook up an industry conference last week, hinting that the nation's largest MSO could be on the hunt for content, but quickly added he was not ready to make any transformational deals.

Burke, speaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment conference in Marina del Rey, Calif., last Wednesday, said while some companies have decided to separate their cable-distribution business from their content holdings (a la Time Warner Inc. earlier this year), Comcast believes that the two can work ...

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