Cable behemoth
ARTHUR BLOCK
Senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, Comcast Corp.
Age 54
NO PAUSE BUTTON
In 1989, when Block joined Comcast Corp. as its
chief in-house transactions counsel, the Philadelphia-
based firm was a regional cable television provider.
After growth and acquisitions during Block’s tenure,
Comcast today is America’s largest cable company,
with major subsidiaries in the cable programming,
retailing and professional sports businesses.
CABLE COLOSSUS
With the Broadband acquisition, Comcast Corp.
became America’s largest cable television provider,
with wholly owned subsidiary Comcast Cable Communications Inc. serving nearly 22 million subscribers
nationwide.
Comcast broadcasts some of its own cable programming, produced through subsidiaries Comcast
SportsNet, E! Entertainment Television, The Golf
Channel, Outdoor Life Network and QVC, the home-shopping network. The company has a two-thirds
stake in Comcast-Spectacor, which owns the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League and the
76ers of the National Basketball Association. By the
OUTSIDE COUNSEL
COMPANY
COMCAST CORP.
CORPORATE
TRANSACTIONS
Davis Polk &
Wardwell; Mayer
Brown; Taylor
Wessing
COMMERCIAL LAW AND
CONTRACTS LITIGATION
Fraser Trebilcock Davis
& Dunlap; Tydings &
Rosenberg; White & Case
TORTS AND
NEGLIGENCE
Loeb & Loeb
EMPLOYMENT AND LABOR
LITIGATION
Ballard Spahr; Fisher &
Phillips; Hangley Aronchick
Segal & Pudlin; Morgan
Lewis & Bockius
IP LITIGATION AND PATENT
PROSECUTION
Brooks Kushman; Davis Polk;
Keker & Van Nest; Loeb & Loeb
