Sports Fans: Apply Now for The Ultimate Sports Social Media Job

Published on Friday, 27 January 2012 12:01 Written by TradersHuddle Staff

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Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA):

What: The Ultimate Sports Social Media Job Contest is a search for the next sports social media star, who will go behind-the-scenes to premier sporting events and share real-time insights from sporting venues through social mediums, like the Xfinity Sports Twitter handle (@XFINITYSports), earn a year’s salary and receive new electronics for the ultimate sports pad.

Who: Comcast’s Xfinity - the home of the most live sports. Xfinity offers customers sporting events and programming from all of the major professional sports leagues, such as NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, along with the best of college sports and over 3,500 live games online.

Where: Sports fans can log on to Facebook.com/Xfinity and go to the “Xfinity Presents: The Ultimate Sports Social Media Job” contest tab to see contest details, as well as submit a video between 30 seconds and two minutes in length explaining why they should be selected as the sports social media voice of Xfinity.

When:

			·				Entry Period				Applications accepted through February 6, 2012
			·				Fans to Vote for Top Five Videos on Facebook				February 9, 2012 – February 19, 2012
			·				Finalist Auditions at Sporting Events				March 8, 2012 – March 11, 2012
			·				Winner Selected				March 25, 2012

Please visit http://www.facebook.com/xfinity for additional contest details and rules.

About Comcast Cable

Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA) (www.comcast.com) is one of the nation's leading providers of entertainment, information and communications products and services. Comcast is principally involved in the operation of cable systems through Comcast Cable and in the development, production and distribution of entertainment, news, sports and other content for global audiences through NBCUniversal. Comcast Cable is one of the nation's largest video, high-speed Internet and phone providers to residential and business customers. Comcast is the majority owner and manager of NBCUniversal, which owns and operates entertainment and news cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, local television station groups, television production operations, a major motion picture company and theme parks.

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