SEC Company Response from COMCAST CORP (CCZ, CMCSA) (CIK 0001166691) (CCZ) — Nov 4, 2004
COMCAST CORP (CCZ, CMCSA) (CIK 0001166691)
Date: Nov. 4, 2004 · CIK: 0001166691 · Accession: 0000950159-04-000958
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File numbers found in text: 333-119161
Referenced dates: October 22, 2004
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Comcast Corporation Correspondence
Pepper Hamilton LLP
3000 Two Logan Square
Eighteenth and Arch Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2799
215.981.4000
Fax 215.981.4750
November 5, 2004
Via Facsimile and EDGAR
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Attention: Larry Spirgel (Mail Stop 0407)
Re:
Comcast Corporation
Form S-3
Filed September 21, 2004
SEC File No. 333-119161
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This letter
responds to comments by the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“Commission”) contained in the letter (the “Comment Letter”)
dated November 1, 2004, from Larry Spirgel, Assistant Director of the Division
of Corporation Finance, to Arthur R. Block, Senior Vice President of Comcast
Corporation (the “Company”). The responses set forth below are
numbered to correspond to the numbered comments in the Comment Letter.
Additionally, the Company is simultaneously filing Amendment No. 2 to the
Registration Statement (“Amendment No. 2”) in response to the Comment
Letter.
1. The options sold to JP
Morgan Chase Bank will have terms commonly found in market traded options. These terms
include the automatic exercise of in-the-money options at maturity, detailed
anti-dilution adjustment provisions for dividends and adjustment provisions for mergers,
tender offers, nationalizations, insolvencies and de-listings, which adjustments are
based upon the methods for adjustment suggested by the International Swap and Derivative
Association.
Further in compliance
with this comment, disclosure has been added to the "Background and Purpose of the
Sales Covered by this Prospectus and Related Transactions" and "Arrangements
with JPMorgan Chase and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc." sections of
Pepper Hamilton LLP
Securities and Exchange Commission
November 5, 2004
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Amendment No. 2 to expand on the terms that are typically found in
equity option transactions between sophisticated financial counterparties at arm's
length.
2. In response to this
comment, we have added a new paragraph to the “Plan of Distribution” section
of Amendment No. 2 to explain how JP Morgan Chase Bank will adjust its short position to
hedge its economic risk with respect to the options that it purchases from the Company.
3. In response to this
comment, we have incorporated the substance of the final two sentences of our response to
comment 5 of our letter dated October 22, 2004 into the third paragraph of the "Plan of Distribution"
section of Amendment No. 2.
4. In response to this
comment, we have clarified the disclosure in the "Plan of Distribution" section
of Amendment No. 2.
5. In response to this
comment, we have added disclosure to the "Plan of Distribution" section and
elsewhere within Amendment No. 2 to explain the applicable regulatory requirements.
We look forward to
hearing from you at your earliest convenience. Please direct any questions regarding
this filing to the undersigned at 215.981.4773.
Very
truly yours,
/s/ Robert A. Friedel
Robert A. Friedel