Comcast and its NBCUniversal, while facing no new carriage complaints, meanwhile are...

of the firms, said Comcast’s second annual compliance report. It said the operator is “negotiating several “full freight’ requests” and hasn’t received any more requests under the benchmark provision of the order. That provision is the subject of a dispute between Comcast and Project Concord (CD Jan 14 p10). OVD deals “have become a regular part of the Company’s program licensing business,” said Thursday’s filing in docket 10-56 (http://bit.ly/YH8nhQ). NBCUniversal has signed such deals in the 52 weeks through Jan. 28 with Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Flixster, Google, MediaNavi, Target, Toys R Us and Vdio, said the filing. It said NBCUniversal, which Comcast seeks to buy the rest of from General Electric, has renewed deals with Apple, Blockbuster, Hulu, iN Demand, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony, Vudu and others. Comcast/NBCUniversal “carefully reviews proposals to limit online display of video programming” so it meets the deal condition to not restrict such distribution except in certain circumstances, the filing said. “Its approach positions it as the most ‘online friendly’ programmer” and multichannel video programming distributor, it said. “Notably, the Company continually receives proposals that seek to limit online display by MVPDs and programmers alike, illustrating the degree to which the practice remains common in the industry.” Comcast’s June FCC consent decree over a broadband condition (CD June 28 p2) “reinforced” the operator’s commitment to sell standalone ISP service, and “expanded” training, the filing said. Comcast said it has expanded its broadband network by more miles than was required, and passes more households now than will be required in the next year of the deal. Comcast/NBCUniversal’s “ongoing commitment to diverse programming is illustrated by its resurgent Telemundo unit,” the filing said on diversity conditions and the Spanish-language broadcast network. “For the first time in the network’s history, Telemundo offered live streaming of broadcast coverage together with exclusive, digital-only content of Olympic events, news, announcements, and information for authenticated subscribers totaling more than 200 hours of digital video.” Comcast has now begun carrying three of the 10 additional independent cable networks that it committed to distribute, the filing said. Comcast “continues to meet and in some cases exceed its obligations,” Executive Vice President David Cohen wrote on the company’s blog Friday (http://bit.ly/13uoMMd). The ISP’s Internet Essentials reduced-price product for low-income households is “the largest and most comprehensive broadband adoption program in America,” he wrote. Internet Essentials has 150,000 subscribers, the filing said. The product costs customers $9.95 monthly.