Winners of the Most-Popular Xfinity On Demand Programming: Bridesmaids, Tosh.0 and the ‘Bob

February 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Comedian Daniel Tosh

Daniel Tosh searches the Internet for interesting content to share with his viewers. Tosh.0 was Xfinity On Demand's most-viewed TW show in 2011

Every year, we have fun catching up with totals of what we all watched the most On Demand in Seattle, Spokane, and the rest of Washington State. The clear winner this year was the movie Bridesmaids. The geek in all of us will be happy to hear the name of the most popular TV program, Tosh.0.

You probably only have to be breathing to recognize the name of the most popular kids’ show. In fact, you only have to use the hero’s  first name and people recognize him: SpongeBob is everywhere!

You can read more about the national Xfinity On Demand winners here at Comcast Voices. The blog notes “With some 400 million views each month On Demand — or nearly 5 billion views in 2011 — the category winners represent a true popularity contest.”

So who was popular here in Washington, as a state? Here was our list for 2011:

1. Bridesmaids* (Universal)
2. Red* (Summit)
3. Hall Pass* (Warner Bros.)
4. Due Date* (Warner Bros.)
5. Bad Teacher * (Sony)
6. The Adjustment Bureau* (Universal)
7. Horrible Bosses* (Warner Brothers)
8. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1* (Warner Bros.)
9. Little Fockers* (Universal)
10. Just Go With It* (Sony)
 
Across America, Hall Pass was No. 2 and Red No. 3, but those positions are flipped in Washington.
 
By the way, where you see an asterix is where the movie was available On Demand the same day it was for sale on DVD format.
 
Here were the most popular TV shows in Washington:
 
1. Tosh.0
2. NCIS
3. Hawaii Five-0
4. South Park
5. Two and A Half Men
6. The Big Bang Theory
7. Family Guy
8. CSI
9. Pawn Stars
10. The Office

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Comcast Neighborhoods Program Shows Off Dutch-Influenced Lynden, Washington

February 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Sabrina Register and Comcast Neighborhoods visit Lynden in the latest installment of the program that we’ve placed on YouTube. Here are links for more information about some of the places and people featured in the segment.

Berthusen Park

City of Lynden

Dutch Village Inn

Edaleen Diary

Lynden Dutch Bakery

Lynden Performing Arts Guild

Lynden Pioneer Museum

Comcast Neighborhoods segments air for three months On Demand before they appear on YouTube. So that’s why you will see hints of the holiday season in the video.

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Time-Lapse Video of Comcast Storm Repairs in January 2012

January 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment

One of the communications technicians based in our Auburn offices, Brian Farchette, is pretty handy with a camera. Now that the storm repairs are well under control, Brian had time to go back over some video he filmed in the aftermath of the January 2012 winter mess in Puget Sound. What he gives us on the video above is a glimpse into what it was like out there in the cold. We hope you find the video interesting. The time-lapse part begins about a minute and 30 seconds into the video.

If you go to the original YouTube page, Brian gives a special shout-out to the employees from Spokane who came over the mountains to help their brethen. Everyone in Western Washington appreciated their help!

We were all glad the storm only damaged certain areas and not others: employees in less-damaged areas such as Spokane, Bellingham, Aberdeen, Everett and Seattle quickly spread through other areas to help with the massive recovery effort. We also had crews from California helping for some time.

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Monday Storm Repair Update from Comcast

January 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment

If you have any storm-related damage that’s still affecting your service, please call us at 1-800-COMCAST. As we’ve said in some previous posts: One thing we would NOT want to have happen is to have your Comcast cable line on the ground, and for us not know about it.

Sunday, we had about 50 people call us about their lines in South and East King County and about 13 in Thurston County; if we should be out fixing your lines, please let us know. If you had any problem getting through when we received a lot of calls during the storm, please accept our apologies and call us again. In the meantime, what we’re doing today is revisiting some of the damage that we repaired in a hurry and making more lasting repairs.

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Thursday Storm Repair Update from Comcast

January 26, 2012 by 2 Comments

fallen power pole

Our crews were still seeing sights like this Wednesday in some parts of Washington as roads were reopened and the power company declared the electricity back up and lines safe to work on. This photo was taken in Thurston County.

 Thanks to the return of electricity and hard work by our teams, Comcast estimates the number of customers without service is about 800. This is down from about 260,000 at the height of the storm’s effects. 

 In King County, as customers have been calling in reports of damage, we’re going to reconnect and re-hang more than 450 lines back to homes. We hung 575 lines yesterday. The power seems to have gone out again in parts of North Bend, so we’ll be back up there too. One bit of good news is that all the roads are reopened, so access is certainly a lot easier than it has been on other days.

In Thurston County, we’re still getting calls from customers of lines down as the power comes back up, and people discover problems.  In Pierce County, we’re in cleanup mode, but part of Roy lost some power last night and so we’re back there today. We’re proactively driving in areas where customers may not have reported trouble yet, and are working more than 100 reports of lines still down in Pierce County today.

Meantime, winds hit parts of Bellingham, and after the power comes back on we’ll make sure service is back to normal there too. 

 If you have any doubt whether your outage is reported, please call us at 1-800-COMCAST. One thing we would NOT want to have happen is to have your Comcast cable line on the ground, and for us not know about it.

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