Every Thursday morning, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup.

We’re not quite done with this topic yet.

For two consecutive weeks, the biggest Comcast story has remained the same — it’s partnership with Time Warner to launch an online TV video streaming service that requires cable subscription authentication.

Major challenges remain in designing that authentication system, reports the Los Angeles Times. While broadcast networks like NBC have been quick to put their content online for free, cable providers, like Comcast, are eager to create a source of revenue online.

The L.A. Times also reports that the initiative, dubbed TV Everywhere, is proposed to include regular commercials, like broadcast TV, despite the trend online for fewer, shorter video advertisements. (Watch the CEOs of Comcast and Time Warner speak on the proposal after the jump.)

If you’re thinking of the online TV limit, think 500 hours, as Multichannel News reports. Web video watched through TV Everywhere will count toward the overall 250-gigabyte per month usage limit, which Comcast instituted last fall.

“According to my calculations, 250 Gbytes is enough for some 496 hours of high-quality video streaming, or the equivalent of 20 days of around-the-clock online-video watching,” wrote Todd Spangler.

While some executives have brushed the concern aside, the question of antitrust implications for the Comcast and Time Warner Internet-video collusion is real, Gigaom reports.

After the jump, keeping baseball from a 94-year-old fan, Comcast and Time Warner heads speak, and four other Comcast stories for the faithful.

In order of importance for your ease:

• Inquirer columnist Danny Rubin finds and reports on 94-year-old Jessie Foyle, a Phillies fan to the extreme who struggles to listen to the baseball team’s games on a transistor radio because her retirement home has DirecTV. Comcast owns rights to most of the Phillies games and, Rubin suggests, they ain’t sharing.
• Comcast became the first major cable TV company to release wireless broadband beyond of Wi-Fi hotspots when it launched the service in Portland, Ore., on Tuesday. Services in Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia and others are planned to follow by the end of 2009. This follows the company’s November 2008 investment in Clearwire.
• The Inqy’s Bob Fernandez profiles the work of Comcast Interactive Media, the company’s 800-employee Internet division. It includes ping pong and the department’s relationship to its cable TV operations.
• TV Squad suggests that a Comcast advertisement attacking Verizon’s FiOS TV has been changed.
• A press release announcing that Comcast is now the third largest residential phone services provider.
• Comcast Voices has a video interview with Brian Roberts and Jeff Bewkes, CEOs of Comcast and Time Warner respectively, about their company’s partnership on TV Everywhere, as announced last week.

When there is just too much Comcast news to follow, the Comcast Roundup will be there to fill your every Comcast desire or fantasy.

Every Thursday morning, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup.

It isn’t true, so you really ought to stop saying it.

That’s the crux of a cease and desist letter that Verizon Communications has sent to Comcast in response to the telecommunications giant’s series of advertisements called “Don’t Fall for FiOS,” in which, among other claims, Comcast calls a triple-play-like service for bundle from Verizon $400 more expensive per year than the ‘Cast’s version, as reported Tuesday by the Inquirer’s Bob Fernandez.

“Verizon’s been running a negative campaign against Comcast for years and its response to our campaign shows that they can dish it out but they can’t take it,” a Comcast spokeswoman says.

Boys and girls, that fight is getting tweeted:

After the jump, Comcast reports to the FCC, a mildly awkward Comcast interview on Web teen safety and four other stories that would interest any Comcast-head.

In order of importance for your ease:

• The Inquirer’s Fernandez also reports that that squabble isn’t slowing Verizon, which is expanding its FiOS TV wireless mobile service with more real-time sports games. Cable360 reports that Verizon’s CTO was talking about broadband strategy this week.
• The Business Journal reports that NBA TV has inked a deal to be on Comcast’s Digital Classic lineup. As we’ve reported, contentious negotiations with the NFL Network ended in Comcast’s favor last month, followed by a deal with the NHL Network. Because MLB TV, which Comcas partially owns, is already on the tier, pressure remains on the telecommunications giant to work with the cricket channel.
• PC Mag reports on what stakeholders in a national broadband plan told the FCC by Monday’s deadline for reporting. They give crib notes for the responses from Comcast, Google, Verizon and others. The Inquirer’s Fernandez also�reports that Comcast told FCC that nearly all of the households in its franchise areas already have access to high-speed Internet, among other details.
• Oh, and because we love the meta of Comcast interviewing Comcast and talking about safety using Comcast products, we bring to you a recent interview by Comcast Local Edition foxy anchor Jill Horner of the company’s Internet security minister Jay Opperman.

When there is just too much Comcast news to follow, the Comcast Roundup will be there to fill your every Comcast desire or fantasy.

Every Thursday morning, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup.

Comcast settled two hotly contested fights with major content creators last week.

Comcast and the NFL Network settled their differences and inked a nine-year deal that will broadcast the football channel to more than two-thirds of Comcast subscribers, the New York Times reports.

The Media Memo at All Things Digital also reports that after Comcast’s squabble with Disney over Mickey’s joining Hulu last month, the two came together to announce that Disney-owned ESPN will offer its streaming video service to 17 million Comcast broadband subscribers.

Comcast’s growing lobbying budget, new advertising campaign and three other Comcast stories you need to read, after the jump.

Organized by importance for your ease:

• The Inquirer’s Bob Fernandez reports that, while still among the bottom of cable companies, Comcast saw its ranking in the American Customer Satisfaction Index leap forward, attributed to its social media outreach. Anyone think that can keep going?
• Fernandez also reports that the slowing economy doesn’t mean that Comcast has any plans of selling its majority stake in the Sixers and Flyers.
• For his second encore (gosh their staff is small now) Fernandez reports that our telecommunications giant spent $12.5 million on lobbying last year, including famed North Philadelphia Pastor William Gray III.
• The Inquirer’s Joe Distefano reports that an Obama administration more likely to push antitrust litigation could threaten cable giants like Comcast.
• Ad Week discusses Comcast’s new advertising campaign featuring Shaquille O’Neal as ‘the best’ and Ben Stein as ‘the smartest,’ qualities the company says represent its subscriber offerings. Check one of the spots out below.

When there is just too much Comcast news to follow, the Comcast Roundup will be there to fill your every Comcast desire or fantasy.