Iconic moments from our history

Question 1

What year was American Cable System founded by Ralph Roberts, Julian Brodsky and Daniel Aaron?

Answer 1

1963

Question 2

What year did Comcast launch a cloud-enabled video platform that transformed TV into an interactive , integrated experience?

Answer 2

2012, was when the X1 Entertainment Operating System launched

Question 3

When was Comcast Center, the tallest building in Philadelphia built?

Answer 3

2008

Question 4

In what year did Comcast acquire NBCUniversal?

Answer 4

2011 Comcast becomes Majority owner after acquiring 51% from GE2013 acquired remaining stake from General Electric Company

Question 5

What year did Comcast and NBCUniversal bring the first multiplatform Olympics, breaking viewing records?

Answer 5

2012

Question 6

What year did Comcast launch new xfinity tv go app with live streaming?

Answer 6

2013

Question 7

In 1975, this iconic sketch show was created?

Answer 7

Saturday Night Live

Question 8

In what year did Carl Laemmle found Universal Films?

Answer 8

1912

Question 9

David Sarnoff founded broadcasting giant NBC in what year?

Answer 9

1926

Question 10

Microsoft made a $1 billion investment in Comcast’s “vision of technology” in what year?

Answer 10

1997

Question 11

Considered as one of the most defining moments in the history of Comcast Corporation, what year was public stock offered?

Answer 11

1972 (CMCSA, CMCSK)

Question 12

What year did Comcast become the nation’s largest video company?

Answer 12

2002 (acquires AT&T Broadband)

Question 13

The longest running public service campaign on network TV, “The More You Know” debuts?

Answer 13

1989

Question 14

In what year did Comcast reach 30 billion On Demand entertainment views?

Answer 14

2013

Question 15

The longest running show on TV, “Meet The Press” debut in what year?

Answer 15

1947

Question 16

Xfinity Home Security launched in what year?

Answer 16

2011

Question 17

what is a cloud-enabled video platform that transformed TV into an interactive , integrated experience?

Answer 17

X1

Question 18

In 2014, Comcast announced construction of what building?

Answer 18

Comcast Innovation and Technology Center

Question 19

In 2008, Comcast was one of the first providers to offer what?

Answer 19

On Demand streaming of TV shows and movies online via XfinityTV.com

Question 20

What reinvented how viewers watch TV by allowing them to use their mobile devices to search across platforms and find what they want to watch, when and where they want to watch it.

Answer 20

Xfinity TV app

Question 21

What was launched in 2012 to broaden the number of choices that the customer can watch?

Answer 21

Streampix

Question 22

In what year was the Wizarding World of Harry Potter debuted?

Answer 22

2010

Question 23

Comcast Labs opens Silicon Valley Center in what year?

Answer 23

2010

Question 24

NBC Radio broadcasts Berlin Summer Olympics Live in what year?

Answer 24

1936

Question 25

Our company's signature celebration of service and the nation's largest single-day corporate volunteer event is called what?

Answer 25

Comcast Cares Day

Question 26

Annual Comcast Cares Day effort launches in what year?

Answer 26

2001

Question 27

Seinfield's Final Episode attracts 76 million viewers in what year?

Answer 27

1998

Question 28

Which first blockbuster film in 1975 was successful and began an amazing legacy for the filmmaker Steven Spielberg at Universal?

Answer 28

Jaws

Question 29

E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial was the highest grossing film of which year and remains one of the most successful movies of all time in the United States?

Answer 29

1982

Question 30

In 1952, this was the nation's first morning news program that debuted on NBC?

Answer 30

Today show

Question 31

This iconic building opened in 1933 and has been NBC's headquarters since?

Answer 31

30 Rockefeller Center

Question 32

In 2006, this became the #1 Cable network?

Answer 32

USA

Question 33

Which program was launched in 2011 is the nation's largest and most comprehensive broadband adoption program and has connected more than 500,000 familes and low-income Americans, to the power of the Internet in their homes?

Answer 33

Internet Essentials

Question 34

What is part of NBCUniversal, develops and produces aware-winning and daring films that captivate audiences such as Brokeback Mountain, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and ParaNorman?

Answer 34

Focus Features

Question 35

In 2013, Comcast launched what two networks bringing great minority-owned and independent content to viewers nationwide?

Answer 35

Earvin "Magic" Johnson's ASPiRE and Sean "Diddy" Combs REVOLT

Question 36

After Comcast acquired the majority share of NBCUniversal in 2011, Comcast's existing sports networks - Golf Channel, NBC Sports Network (Formerly Versus) and the Comcast SportsNet networks, combined with the NBC Sports portfolio (NBC Sports, NBC Olympics, NBC Sports Digital) to form what?

Answer 36

NBC Sports Group

Question 37

In what year did Comcast launch its voice service and quickly grow to become the fourth largest phone service provider in the United States?

Answer 37

2005

Question 38

In 2013, how many XFINITY Voice subscribers did we have?

Answer 38

over 10 million

Question 39

In 1996, Comcast and which iconic entrepreneur joined together to create Comcast Spectacor, a leading company in the sports management and entertainment industries that provides top-tier experiences for fans in 46 of the 50 United States?

Answer 39

Ed Snider

Question 40

Universal celebrated its Centennial Celebration, with a century of movie memories by marking its 100th anniversary in which year?

Answer 40

2012

Question 41

The largest producer of Spanish-Language content in the U.S. launched in 2013?

Answer 41

Telemundo

Question 42

Comcast began its leadership in sports programming as an original investor in what channel in 1994, and became a majority owner in 2003?

Answer 42

Golf Channel

Question 43

On average, Comcast's network supports the delivery of how many emails, phone calls, and On Demand views every day?

Answer 43

136 million emails, 142 million phone calls, and 15 million On Demand views

Question 44

Comcast becomes largest residential Internet Service Provider in what year?

Answer 44

2009

Question 45

Comcast demonstrated a 1 gigabit per second connection and downloaded an entire season of 30 Rock in about a minute and a half in what year?

Answer 45

2011

Question 46

In 2013, what become the country's fastest and largest WiFi network?

Answer 46

Xfinity WiFi

Question 47

Comcast Corporation has been investing in innovation and technology since 1999 when it launched what fund led by one of Comcast's pioneers Julian Brodsky, to support entrepreneurs and startups building companies with big ideas and new technologies?

Answer 47

Comcast Interactive Capital

Question 48

Comcast Interactive Capital has grown to become one of the most successful corporate venture capital initiatives among the Fortune 50, and is known today as what?

Answer 48

Comcast Ventures

Question 49

In 2010, Comcast Interactive Capital and the NBCUniversal Peacock Equity Fund combined to create what?

Answer 49

Comcast Ventures

Question 50

In what year did Comcast, NBCUniversal and Twitter announce a first-of-its-kind partnership that links social conversations happening online to at the actual consumption of TV, movie, and sports content?

Answer 50

2013

Question 51

NBC marked a major TV milestone when it became the first network to offer its entire primetime lineup in color in what year?

Answer 51

1965

Question 52

In what year did NBC premiere The Tonight Show with Steve Allen, the first successful late night talk show on network TV?

Answer 52

1954

Question 53

In 2005, Comcast teamed up with PBS, HIT Entertainment and Sesame Workshop to bring parents and kids a new concept and launched what first 24-hour preschool destination for children 2-5?

Answer 53

Sprout

Question 54

In 2013, we're developing innovation solutions to enable people with disabilities to interact with mainstream mobile, online, and desktop user interfaces, including the first talking program guide and its called what?

Answer 54

Comcast Accessibility Lab

Question 55

In 1989, Tom Brokaw covers the fall of the Berlin Wall live on what program?

Answer 55

NBC Nightly News

Question 56

NBC's coverage of what movement in the 1950s and 1960s was pioneered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and coverage of the bus boycott in Alabama and school integration in Arkansas.

Answer 56

Civil Rights movement

Question 57

Launched in 1989, this channel has changed the way investors, executives, and the world get their financial news?

Answer 57

CNBC

Question 58

In what year did Comcast invest in the people, systems, and processes to bring small businesses Internet, Voice, and TV Services?

Answer 58

2006

Question 59

In 2013, we launched what award-winning suite of cloud-based software business solutions?

Answer 59

Upware

Question 60

In 2003, Comcast made a core investment in what channel to help bring African American programming to a wider audience of Americans?

Answer 60

TV One

Question 61

In 1986, Comcast makes a smart founding investment in one of the world's leading TV and ecommerce retailers which is who?

Answer 61

QVC

Question 62

In 2011, Comcast and NBCUniversal create what to bring together business, entertainment, media, and civil rights leaders to advise our diversity and inclusion efforts within the company and in our community?

Answer 62

External Joint Diversity Advisory Council