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Carroll County and its eight municipalities will have the opportunity to either approve or reject a draft of a new franchise agreement with Comcast early in the new year.

The United States Olympic Committee named Paralympic track and field athlete Tatyana McFadden, who grew up in Clarksville and attended Atholton, Female Athlete of the Month for November.

Video advertising technology company Videology is weighing an IPO, but it faces stiff competition from rivals that have seen mixed results on the stock market or been bought up by tech giants.

In this week's roundup, we'll take a look at TNA's new TV deal and how it changes the landscape of wrestling on American TV.

FCC should keep the Internet open and unregulated to encourage innovation, competition

President Barack Obama's proposal to classify Internet service as a utility is the only way to keep the web free.

The Columbia Association, a large community services organization that manages many of Columbia's amenities, became this week the latest private-sector entity to link into the Inter-County Broadband Network, a publicly-funded Internet provider that took years and $160 million in state and federal funds to develop.

Since the station -- which broadcasts on Comcast Channel 71, Verizon Fios Channel 12 and also streams on the city's website, cityoflaurel.org -- relaunched as Laurel TV in September, Barnes and media coordinator Joyce Jackson, a fellow television journalist turn city employee, have received over 100 applications for volunteers.

A community group based in North Baltimore has attracted more than 900 supporters and nearly $17,000 in donations to the Baltimore Broadband Coalition, which seeks to attract broadband investment here.

To Karmen Brown, victims' advocacy is personal

About 30,000 low-income Maryland families, half of them in the Baltimore region, have signed up for $10-a-month Internet service, Comcast Corp. officials said Tuesday as they promoted broadened access to the program in its fourth year.

As the fall campaign season opens, Republican Anne Arundel County executive hopeful Steve Schuh has three times as much money as his Democratic rival, George Johnson.

The University of Maryland's Comcast Center, home of the school's basketball teams, is being renamed the XFINITY Center at the request of the media and technology giant, which is eager to promote its relatively new "Xfinity" brand.

A Westminster cow has developed a taste for Comcast cable

Although Verizon has installed FiOS — the high-speed fiber-optic cable connection — in a large part of Towson, the southern neighborhoods along York Road near the Baltimore City line, have not yet been connected to FiOS and David Marks, the district's Baltimore County Councilman, wants to know why.

Comcast provides atrocious service in Baltimore.

Contrary to a recent Sun op-ed, Comcast provides top-quality services in Baltimore.

14 communities in north Baltimore have partnered to create the Baltimore Broadband Campaign. We want to demonstrate that, through the intelligent use of existing fiber infrastructure and the installation of new fiber where necessary, an economically viable, competitive broadband service is possible in the city. And it need not come from Comcast or Verizon: there are over 800 fiber optic providers of various types in the United States. Apparently, though, none have yet seen adequate economic

CharmTV will feature Baltimore restaurants, neighborhoods

Taylor Twellman, 34, has turned into one of the fastest-rising talents in American sports media as an analyst and, according to lead ESPN World Cup announcer Ian Darke, "he's very much the flavor of the month."

The proposed deal between Comcast and Time Warner could keep the companies from going the way of Blockbuster.

Verizon Communications launched its expanded Fios DVR television service this week in the Baltimore region.

Genuine net neutrality should not involve preferential treatment and two-tier pricing for 'fast' or 'baseline' levels of Internet service

On May 15, the Federal Communications Commission is set to propose new rules requiring Internet service providers to disclose how they manage and prioritize web traffic while allowing them to strike "commercially reasonable" deals to juggle demand for bandwidth.

Even though next week's first gubernatorial debate is being co-hosted by two taxpayer-funded state universities, Baltimore viewers are not scheduled to be able to see it.

The event, co-sponsored by the city's public works department and Baltimore Green Works, drew hundreds of Comcast employees and their friends and families to Druid Hill Park for tree maintenance, landscaping, fence-building, litter pickup and other service activities.

Barnes brings an impressive resume to the city, having worked 32 years in television as a reporter and anchor. Her career, which began at the University of Maryland and Northwestern University, has taken her to Detroit; Flint, Mich.; Baltimore; and Washington. Most recently, Barnes worked at Fox 5 in Washington.

Comcast announced Wednesday that it has increased the speeds of Internet services for many customers in the Northeast including those in Baltimore.