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Michael Hodel
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NBCUniversal Joins the Streaming Wars

Competition within the subscription video on demand, or SVOD, market in the U.S. continues to increase as Comcast’s NBCUniversal announced its plans on Jan. 14 to launch a new streaming service in 2020. Comcast, like other traditional media firms, faces the challenge of establishing direct customer relationships without disrupting the highly-lucrative traditional pay-television ecosystem. However, we believe its SVOD proposed approach is superior to AT&T’s plans for WarnerMedia. Unlike Comca...
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Comcast Corporation Class A

Comcast is a media and technology company. The company's segments are: Cable Communications, which provides internet, video, voice, and security and automation services in the United States individually and as bundled services at a discounted rate over its cable distribution system to residential and business customers; NBCUniversal, which includes a portfolio of national cable networks that provide a variety of entertainment, news and information, and sports content, regional sports and news networks, international cable networks, and cable television studio production operations; and Sky, which owns a portfolio of pay television channels that provide entertainment, news, sports and movies.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Michael Hodel

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