December 15, 2008

CMC Hires John Roy as VP Cable Ops and Engineering

John Roy has joined the Comcast Media Center's senior management team as vice president, cable operations and engineering. In this newly created position, he oversees the video encoding and distribution services that the CMC provides to Comcast's cable systems, HITS affiliates and other content distribution customers. This includes management responsibility for the CMC's Titan Earth Station in nearby Sedalia, CO, terrestrial content distribution the CMC delivers via fiber backbone, and its encode operations, IT infrastructure and video engineering units.

Roy most recently served as senior director of advanced video implementation for Charter Communications. From 2003 to 2006, he was director of advanced video engineering for Adelphia Communications. Beforehand, Roy worked on broadband and advanced video solutions at MediaOne and Scientific Atlanta.