Today at the Economic Club
It's awonderanyone in this town eats lunch, what with our always coming up with ourcamera, and their being so courteous as to immediatelystandfor a picture. Moments ago, we snapped Comcast CEOBrian Roberts, right, keynote at anEconomic Clubof Washington luncheon, with CNN anchorWolf Blitzer, Carlyle co-founderDavid Rubenstein, and Washington Post publisherKatharine Weymouth. We could tell you Brian's storiesabout how the company his dad founded50 years agothis year that started with 13,000 cable subscribers in Mississippi has grown to a$60 billion juggernautthat just two days ago closed on the last of its $30 billionpurchase of NBC, or what he thinks about theOlympicsfranchise or the future ofJay Leno. But the thing we think you will most want to know about is anew producthe unveiled that will soon hit the DC market: aTV remoteyou don't have topointat the cable box to work.
